Quotes About Commitment

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

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.

Look, Steve, you're my best friend, and Apple is your company. I'll do whatever you want.

Money is not the greatest of motivators," Torvalds said. "Folks do their best work when they are driven by passion.

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

subrayaba que nunca se debía crear una empresa para hacerse rico. La meta debía ser producir algo en lo que creyeras y crear una compañía duradera».

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.

order to do a good job of those things that we decide to do, we must eliminate all of the unimportant opportunities.

I'll always remember Apple like any man remembers the first woman he's fallen in love with." But he was also willing to fight with its management if need be. "When someone calls you a thief in public, you have to respond." Apple's

There's no way we're slipping!

summer of 1989, he asked her to marry him. She couldn't do it. It would drive her crazy, she told friends. She had grown up in a volatile household, and her relationship with Jobs bore too many similarities to that environment. They were opposites who attracted

Hertzfeld replied that he needed a couple more days to finish the Apple II product he was in the middle of. "What's more important than working on the Macintosh?" Jobs demanded. Hertzfeld explained that he needed to

There was the mother who offered up three of her flock of sons, the Dutch surgeon who wanted to study bodies that had been blown apart, and the Benedictine monk who promised to pray for America if it would pay off his gambling debts.

To him, marriage was confining, which was a state he instinctively resisted.

Keep your eyes wide open before marriage, half shut afterwards.

At the age of 31, he had five children to raise, a trade to tend, and a shop to keep. He needed a robust new wife, and he needed her quickly.

Just because you can't act EVERYWHERE doesn't mean you don't act ANYWHERE. – Madeleine Albright

Diligence is the mother of good luck 

Su obsesión es la pasión por el producto, la pasión por la perfección del producto

When it is founded on decision, love is no longer an unreliably moving passion, but the fulfillment to which alone real Being reveals itself.

had a girlfriend named Lana who told me she loved me but said that her impression of life was that people should live alone, answerable to no one. This, she said, made love a true choice and not a duty that inevitably transmogrified into spite.

It's the strongest love that makes the greatest treachery. The worst thing you can say to somebody is that you will be there no matter what and then fail to show.

What's that got to do with a few gray hairs?" Angelo wanted to know. "Girl see one or two and she thinks maybe the man done aged enough to calm down, make somethin' outta himself. She willin' to let him look so maybe she could see what his prospects are like. That way a man like me might get a great night or a lifetime of pot roasts, fat babies, and halfhearted regrets.

You know love is true when it survives the devastation it causes.