...never let a passion for the perfect take precedence over pragmatism. Walter Isaacson More Quotes by Walter Isaacson More Quotes From Walter Isaacson 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. Excerpt From: Walter, Isaacson. “Steve Jobs.” Simon & Schuster, 2011-10-23T21:00:00+00:00. iBooks. This material may be protected by copyright. Walter Isaacson goal jobs believe People who know what they’re talking about don’t need PowerPoint. Walter Isaacson talking inspirational people One of the strongest motives that leads men to art and science is escape from everyday life with its painful crudity and hopeless dreariness. Such men make this cosmos and its construction the pivot of their emotional life, in order to find the peace and security which they cannot find in the narrow whirlpool of personal experience. Walter Isaacson memorable men art i had no idea what i wanted to do with my life and no idea how college was going to help me figure it out. Walter Isaacson tuition college ideas I used to be an angry man myself. I’m a recovering assaholic so I could recognize that in Steve. (quoting Jean-Louis Gassée) Walter Isaacson angry-man used men I have my own theory about why decline happens at companies like IBM or Microsoft. The company does a great job, innovates and becomes a monopoly or close to it in some field, and then the quality of the product becomes less important. The company starts valuing the great salesmen, because they’re the ones who can move the needle on revenues, not the product engineers and designers. So the salespeople end up running the company. Walter Isaacson running jobs moving I think the biggest innovations of the twenty-first century will be the intersection of biology and technology. A new era is beginning, just like the digital one was when I was his age. Walter Isaacson innovation technology thinking Jobs insisted that Apple focus on just two or three priorities at a time. “There is no one better at turning off the noise that is going on around him,” Cook said. “That allows him to focus on a few things and say no to many things. Few people are really good at that. Walter Isaacson apples jobs two for Steve, less is always more, simpler is always better. Therefore, if you can build a glass box with fewer elements, it’s better, it’s simpler, and it’s at the forefront of technology. That’s where Steve likes to be, in both his products and his stores. Walter Isaacson elements glasses technology More generally, I made an effort to leave out things that weren't relevant to the main narrative themes of the book, namely that there were two sides to Steve Jobs: the romantic, poetic, countercultural rebel on one side, and the serious businessperson on the other. Walter Isaacson romantic jobs book I've always had an abundance of material about the subjects of my biographies. Walter Isaacson abundance subjects biographies Did Alexander Graham Bell do any market research before he invented the telephone? Walter Isaacson bells telephones research I think it's really good that you have great competition among news networks, and for that matter all the networks in general. It's bringing more and more people in to watching the news. Walter Isaacson competition people thinking I visited Jobs for the last time in his Palo Alto, Calif., home. He had moved to a downstairs bedroom because he was too weak to go up and down stairs. He was curled up in some pain, but his mind was still sharp and his humor vibrant Walter Isaacson pain home jobs I think it's very important to have a sense of balance in covering the war, but you don't have to be morally neutral about terrorism. Walter Isaacson balance war thinking I think that Benjamin Franklin felt very strongly in foreign policy in this world, that you needed to at least show some humility, especially when you were strong. Walter Isaacson strong humility thinking I think that's exactly what Silicon Valley was all about in those days. Let's do a startup in our parents' garage and try to create a business. Walter Isaacson parent trying thinking I think it is valuable and should be valued by its consumers. Charging for content forces discipline on journalists: they must produce things that people actually value. Walter Isaacson discipline people thinking I don't think there was enough skepticism because I think most of us kind of believed that Saddam Hussein was building biological, chemical, and perhaps even, nuclear weapons. Walter Isaacson nuclear hussein thinking And if you don't have your ears open, you're not going to be able to figure out what you should be doing. Walter Isaacson able figures ears
