Quotes About Visionary

My acronym is WWSJD: What Would Steve Jobs Do?

Steve Jobs was my hero.

The paradox of Steve Jobs's career is that he had no interest in listening to consumers - he was famously dismissive of market research - yet nonetheless had an amazing sense of what consumers actually wanted.

Of the great entrepreneurs of this era, people will have forgotten Steve Jobs.

One thing most people don't know is that Steve Jobs is an exceptional designer.

Steve Jobs changed my life. He also changed the life of every designer.

Steve Jobs was a pretty complicated character and somewhat a psychologically complicated guy.

Is there anyone out there who is the next Steve Jobs? I think Jeff Bezos is pretty close. He is very smart. He is extremely creative. He has completely reinvented the way in which commerce is done online.

Steve Jobs was a real rock star to me. I looked forward to his products like people look forward to albums.

Steve Jobs just made a product. He started off where a lot of people were skeptical of what he was doing, and he basically just focused on the product and making it the best he could, and really focused on what it was that these products would take into your lives.

I once said, 'Steve Jobs is the American Xavier Niel,' but that was humour.

Until his dying days, Steve Jobs could not only predict the direction the marketplace would be heading, but help drive it there.

One of the first acts during the second coming of Steve Jobs as CEO in 1997 was a major board overhaul.

It seems obvious to say, but I really admire the creative sides of Steve Jobs.

I worked closely with Steve Jobs for twenty-six years. To this day, for all that has been written about him, I don't believe that any of it comes close to capturing the man I knew.

Steve Jobs knows how to hold his hand out, to build beautiful products and make people pay for them.

But for those who really want to make the world a better place, can we start looking at Bill Gates's path instead of Steve Jobs? I like my iPad, but Gates is one of the greatest heroes of our time. For me, that has nothing to do with Microsoft and everything to do with the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation.

Peter Jackson and Steven Spielberg are men at the top of their game, and Jackson especially is going to change the nature of film-making.

There's no one out there like Quentin Tarantino. His films have a signature look, and they never just stick to the same kind of story.

Nobody makes movies like Oliver Stone.

I had this image before Boy George, before the Beatles, before the Rolling Stones.

It is easy to scoff at these ideas, or to point out the difficulties of implementing such schemes when actually running a normal peacetime Government. But Collins was a unique combination of the visionary and the practical.

Far ahead of his time, and to the criticism of isolationists in his own party, Roosevelt tried to get the major nations of the world to come together and take stock of the globe they shared.

If you can't be first in a category, set up a new category you can be first in.