Sunday, August 19, 2012
Friday, August 17, 2012
Personal Growth and Public Perception
"I'm
sure a lot of you had this experience when you're changing. You're
growing as a person and people tend to treat you like you were 18 months
ago, and it's really frustrating sometimes when you're growing up and
you're more capable. It's the same thing with a company and the press.
The press is going to have a lag time. The best thing we can do about
the press is embrace them and do the best thing we can to educate them
about our strategy. But to keep our eye on the prize, that is turning
out some great products. the press and the stock prize will take care of
themselves."
-Steve Jobs
-Steve Jobs
Monday, August 13, 2012
Steve Jobs
- "Almost everything--all external expectations, all pride, all fear of embarrassment or failure--these things just fall away in the face of death, leaving only what is truly important. Remembering that you are going to die is the best way I know to avoid the trap of thinking you have something to lose. You are already naked. There is no reason not to follow your heart."
- "Here's to the crazy ones, the misfits, the rebels, the troublemakers, the round pegs in the square holes... the ones who see things differently -- they're not fond of rules... You can quote them, disagree with them, glorify or vilify them, but the only thing you can't do is ignore them because they change things... they push the human race forward, and while some may see them as the crazy ones, we see genius, because the ones who are crazy enough to think that they can change the world, are the ones who do."
- " In most people's vocabularies, design means veneer. It's interior decorating. It's the fabric of the curtains of the sofa. But to me, nothing could be further from the meaning of design. Design is the fundamental soul of a human-made creation that ends up expressing itself in successive outer layers of the product or service."
- "Your time is limited, so don't waste it living someone else's life. Don't be trapped by dogma - which is living with the results of other people's thinking. Don't let the noise of other's opinions drown out your own inner voice. And most important, have the courage to follow your heart and intuition. They somehow already know what you truly want to become. Everything else is secondary."
- "I'm the only person I know that's lost a quarter of a billion dollars in one year.... It's very character-building."
Confucius
It is easy to hate and it is difficult to love. This
is how the whole scheme of things works. All good things are difficult
to achieve; and bad things are very easy to get.
The superior man is distressed by the limitations of
his ability; he is not distressed by the fact that men do not recognize
the ability that he has.
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