Quotes About Growth

He also noted that the veins of humans narrow with age, but the springs and rivers of the earth continually enlarge their channels.30

Lasting companies know how to reinvent themselves. Hewlett-Packard had done that repeatedly; it started as an instrument company, then became a calculator company, then a computer company. Apple has been sidelined by Microsoft in the PC business. You've got to reinvent the company to do some other thing, like other consumer products or devices. You've got to be like a butterfly and have a metamorphosis.

Innovation occurs when ripe seeds fall on fertile ground.

People who were not crushed ended up being stronger.

There was a key lesson for innovation: Understand which industries are symbiotic so that you can capitalize on how they will spur each other on. If

The year before, 279,000 Apple IIs were sold, compared to 240,000 IBM PCs and its clones.

As [the company] has grown larger and larger, I have enjoyed my daily work less and less

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.

Innovation happens in stages.

Instead of trying to produce a programme to simulate the adult mind, why not rather try to produce one which simulates the child's?

Instead of trying to produce a programme to simulate the adult mind, why not rather try to produce one which simulates the child's?" he asked. "If this were then subjected to an appropriate course of education, one would obtain the adult brain.

The company began attracting influential new investors.

the importance of spawning new

The older I get, the more I see how much motivations matter.

markets rather than merely chasing old ones.

1981 Apple had $334 million in revenue, compared to Microsoft's $15 million.

of months, he began encouraging people to talk to me, even foes and former girlfriends. Nor did he try to put anything off-limits. "I've done a lot of things I'm not proud of, such as getting my girlfriend pregnant when I was twenty-three and the way I handled that," he said. "But I don't have any

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

Shakespeare's Henry V—the story of a willful and immature prince who becomes a passionate but sensitive, callous but sentimental, inspiring but flawed king—begins with the exhortation "O for a Muse of fire, that would ascend / The brightest heaven of invention.

Jobs knew that he was not ready to run the company himself, even though there was a part of him that wanted to try. Despite his arrogance, he could be self-aware. Markkula agreed; he told Jobs that he was still a bit too rough-edged and immature to be Apple's president. So they launched a search for someone from the outside.

Computer innovators, like other pioneers, can find themselves left behind if they get stuck in their ways.

Henry V—the story of a willful and immature prince who becomes a passionate but sensitive, callous but

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.

Embrace uncertainty," the ads read.