Quotes About Persistence

His persistence baffled me. He was known to guard his privacy, and I had no reason to believe he'd ever read any of my books.

For help with the speech, he called the brilliant scriptwriter Aaron Sorkin (A Few Good Men, The West Wing). Jobs sent him some thoughts. "That was in February, and I heard nothing, so I ping him again in April, and he says, 'Oh, yeah,' and I send him a few more thoughts," Jobs recounted. "I finally get him on the phone, and he keeps saying 'Yeah,' but finally it's the beginning of June, and he never sent me anything.

As it turned out, Microsoft wasn't able to get Windows 1.0 ready for shipping until the fall of 1985. Even then, it was a shoddy product. It lacked the elegance of the Macintosh interface, and it had tiled windows rather than the magical clipping of overlapping windows that Bill Atkinson had devised. Reviewers ridiculed it and consumers spurned it. Nevertheless, as is often the case with Microsoft products, persistence eventually made Windows better and then dominant.

To dwell on the things that depress or anger us does not help in overcoming them. One must knock them down alone." His

soldering himself. When they completed a board, they would hand it off to Wozniak. "I would plug each assembled board into the TV and keyboard to test it to see if it worked," he said. "If it did, I put it in a box. If it didn't, I'd figure what pin hadn't gotten into the socket right." Paul Jobs suspended

They kept evolving, moving, refining their art. That's what I've always tried to do—keep moving. Otherwise, as Dylan says, if you're not busy being born, you're busy dying.

Let the perfect be the enemy of the good. When Leonardo could not make the perspective in the Battle of Anghiari or the interaction in the Adoration of the Magi work perfectly, he abandoned them rather than produce a work that was merely good enough. He carried around masterpieces such as his Saint Anne and the Mona Lisa to the end, knowing there would always be a new stroke he could add.

there many afternoons to seek him out. He was entranced

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

Paul e Clara Jobs eram pais amorosos e estavam dispostos a adaptar suas vidas à situação de ter um filho que era muito inteligente — e também teimoso. Eles se esforçariam muito para servi-lo, tratá-lo como alguém especial.

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

to itself." Jobs went home early that day to mull over the problem, then called Ive

But then he paused to recognize the role Jobs in fact played. "In so many other companies, ideas and great design get lost in the process," he said. "The ideas that come from me and my team would have been completely irrelevant, nowhere, if Steve hadn't been here to push us, work with us, and drive through all the resistance to turn

He held himself back for a while, but not for long.

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

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

The Loser Now Will Be Later to Win

Because I didn't know it couldn't be done, I was enabled to do it.

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

There's no way we're slipping!

Some leaders push innovations by being good at the big picture. Others do so by mastering details. Jobs did both, relentlessly.

conception is just the first step. What really matters is execution.

caso de John Atanasoff, el olvidado inventor de Iowa, la concepción de la idea es solo el primer paso. Lo que importa realmente es la ejecución.

Stoop, young man, stoop—as you go through this world—and you'll miss many hard thumps.