Business-culture Quotes

We kind of missed the boat on that," he recalled. " So we needed to catch up real fast." The mark of...

One of Job's great strengths was knowing how to focus. " Deciding what not to do is as important as ...

One sticking point was that Jobs wanted his payout to be in cash. Amelio insisted that he needed to ...

One of Job's business rules was to never be afraid of cannibalizing yourself. " If you don't canniba...

The unified field theory that ties together Jobs personality and products begins with his most salie...

In ancient Rome, when a victorious general paraded through the streets, legend has it that he was so...

Jobs also used the meetings to enforce focus. At Robert Friedland's farm, his job had been to prune ...

Jobs's intensity was also evident in his ability to focus. He would set priorities, aim his laser at...

Edwin Land of Polaroid talked about the intersection of the humanities and science. I like that inte...

Despite being a denizen of the digital world, or maybe because he knew all too well its isolating po...

Jobs described Mike Markkula's maxim that a good company must "impute"- it must convey its values an...

The older I get, the more I see how much motivations matter. The Zune was crappy because the people ...

People will typically be more enthusiastic where they feel a sense of belonging and see themselves a...

The reason they outperformed her was that they accepted each new “product” without trying to underst...

She’s such a bitch,” Tina says, which I find a little contradictory, but overall quite true. “She’s ...

On Wall Street, the lawyers play the same role as medics in war: They come in after the shooting is ...