Quotes About Determination

thus isolated, he became known for his brashness.

You did the impossible, because you didn't realize it was impossible.

through most of the night. Even thus isolated, he became known for his brashness. On those occasions

Bushnell agreed. "There is something indefinable in an entrepreneur, and I saw that in Steve," he said. "He was interested not just in engineering, but also the business aspects. I taught him that if you act like you can do something, then it will work. I told him, 'Pretend to be completely in control and people will assume that you are.

office as Jobs arrived. He looked "rather like a boxer

Having a healthy disregard for the impossible.' That is a really good phrase.

Tenho simpatia pela força de capacitação da ingenuidade››, diz Atkinson. ‹‹Uma vez que eu não sabia que não podia ser feito, fiquei capacitado para o fazer.

I wanted to throw caution and logic to the wind and join Apple

Eve in Foothills Park, Palo Alto: "She's a pistol and has the strongest

there's your answer." It was not, however, a definitive answer. Jobs had a way of focusing on something with insane intensity for a while and then, abruptly, turning away his gaze. At work, he would focus on what he wanted to, when he wanted to, and on other matters he would be unresponsive, no matter how hard people tried to get him to engage. In his personal life, he was the same way.

Hertzfeld explained that he needed to get his Apple II DOS program in good enough shape to hand it over to someone. "You're just wasting your time with that!" Jobs replied. "Who cares about the Apple II? The Apple II will be dead in a few years. The Macintosh is the future of Apple, and you're going to start on it now!" With that, Jobs yanked out the power cord to Hertzfeld's Apple II, causing the code he was working on to vanish.

use as few chips as possible, both as a personal challenge and because he did not want to take advantage of his colleague's largesse. Much of the work was done in the garage of a friend just around the corner, Bill Fernandez, who was still at Homestead High. To lubricate their efforts, they drank large amounts of Cragmont cream soda, riding their bikes to the Sunnyvale

He did it better because Steve had challenged him," said Atkinson

The people who are crazy enough to think they can change the world are the ones who do.

Having a healthy disregard for the impossible

Las personas lo suficientemente locas como para pensar que pueden cambiar el mundo son las que lo cambian. (Anuncio Piensa diferente de Apple, 1997)

sell those to his manager at Haltek. Jobs was able to get his first car, with his father's help, when he was fifteen. It was a two-tone Nash Metropolitan that his father had fitted out with an MG engine. Jobs didn't really like it, but he did not want to tell his father that, or miss out on the chance to have his own car. "In retrospect, a Nash Metropolitan might seem like

was also true when it came to personal commitments. If he knew for sure a course of action was right, he was unstoppable. But if he had doubts, he sometimes withdrew, preferring not to think about things that did not perfectly suit him. As happened when Amelio had asked him what role he wanted to

Jobs's pep talk could have been

One of the basic lessons for innovation is to stay focused.

the son not of a lawyer but of a high school dropout with a passion for mechanics and his salt-of-the-earth wife who was working as a bookkeeper. Paul and Clara named their new

Alto: "She's a pistol and has the strongest will of any kid I've ever met. It's like payback.

It made me cringe, but dammit, it got things done.

when you're doing something for yourself, or your best friend or family, you're not going to cheese out. If you don't love something, you're not going to go the extra mile, work the extra weekend, challenge the status quo as much.