Quotes About Entrepreneurship

markets rather than merely chasing old ones.

The Beatles kept their end of the bargain; none of them ever produced any computers. But Apple ended up wandering into the music business. It got sued again in 1991, when

Perhaps the oddest meeting was when Dr. Dre came to visit Jobs at Apple headquarters. Jobs loved the Beatles

counters, bleached wood floors, and a huge "Think Different" poster of John and Yoko in bed. The skeptics were wrong. Gateway stores had been averaging 250 visitors a week. By 2004 Apple stores were averaging 5,400

them for at most $9.99. Jobs came in and offered publishers what he had refused to offer record companies: They could set any price they wanted for their

I designed the Apple I because I wanted to give it away for free to other people," said Wozniak.

innovación requiere contar con tres cosas como mínimo: una gran idea, el talento técnico para llevarla a cabo y la experiencia empresarial (además de la sangre fría para cerrar tratos) para convertirla en un éxito.

Met Jobs at Atari, became first partner with Jobs and Wozniak at fledgling Apple, but unwisely decided to forgo his equity stake.

By the time Apple went public a year later, Xerox's $1 million worth of shares were worth $17.6 million. But Apple got the better end of the bargain. Jobs and his colleagues went to see Xerox PARC's technology in December 1979 and, when Jobs realized he hadn't been shown enough, got an even fuller demonstration a few days later. Larry Tesler was one of the Xerox scientists called

rock—Jobs rolled together, in an amped-up way, the multiple impulses that were hallmarks of the enlightenment-seeking campus subculture of the era.

Ele chamou Gordon Moore e fundaram uma empresa que se tornou conhecida como Integrated Electronics Corporation, que eles inteligentemente abreviaram para Intel.

Jobs took McCollum's class for only one year, rather than the three that it was offered. For one of his projects, he made a device

You're better off to go out and start your own company and fail than it is to stick at one company for thirty years.

His values were much aligned with mine. He emphasized that you should never start a company with the goal of getting rich. Your goal should be making something you believe in and making a company that will last." Markkula

At the end of the presentation someone asked whether he thought they should do some market research to see what customers wanted. "No," he replied, "because customers don't know what they want until we've shown them.

It was then I realized that I do give a shit about Apple—I started it and it is a good thing to have in the world.

STEPHEN WOZNIAK. The star electronics geek at Homestead High; Jobs figured out how to package and market his amazing circuit

I was way too shy ever to be a business leader like Steve.

Steve Jobs, Al Alcorn

NeXT, 1988: Freed from the constraints at Apple, he indulged his own best and worst instincts.

Do you want to spend the rest of your life selling sugared water, or do you want a chance to change the world?

Case came up with America Online

summer of 2004, I got a phone call from Steve Jobs.

Steve created the only lifestyle brand in the tech industry," Larry Ellison said.