One way to remember who you are is to remember who your heroes are.
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Sculley found Jobs as memorable as his machine. He seemed more a showman than a businessman. Every move seemed calculated, as if it was rehearsed, to create an occasion of the moment.
La sencillez es la máxima sofisticación».
If you need slides, it shows you don’t know what you’re talking about.’
If you just sit and observe, you will see how restless your mind is. If you try to calm it, it only makes it worse, but over time it does calm, and when it does, there's room to hear more subtle thing...
Good authors copy, great artists steal-Picassco
Although Jobs later said that he was not plotting to take over Apple at the time, Ellison thought it was inevitable. Anyone who spent more than a half hour with Amelio would realize that he couldn't...
I have a strong emotional respect for Steve.
Of creating new products. But his more important
Floor of Bethesda Naval Hospital, sick with duodenal
When Leonardo was painting The Last Supper (fig. 74), spectators would visit and sit quietly just so they could watch him work. The creation of art, like the discussion of science, had become at times...
Things were not quite as sweet when Danielle Mitterrand toured the factory. The Cuba-admiring wife of France’s socialist president François Mitterrand asked a lot of questions, through her translator,...
The other sins on his list were, in order: seeming uninterested, speaking too much about your own life, prying for personal secrets (an unpardonable rudeness), telling long and pointless stories (old...
The key venue for freewheeling discourse was the Monday morning executive team gathering, which started at 9 and went for three or four hours. The focus was always on the future: What should each prod...
So I asked him to go on the night shift. It was a way
People who were not crushed ended up being stronger.
Nature is pleased with simplicity
Jobs also used the meetings to enforce focus. At Robert Friedland's farm, his job had been to prune the apple trees so that they would stay strong, and that became a metaphor for his pruning at Apple....
If there is no love, what then?2