Sometimes the difference between geniuses and jerks hinges on whether their ideas turn out to be right.
Some people say, Give the customers what they want. But that’s not my approach. Our job is to figure out what they’re going to want before they do. I think Henry Ford once said, If I’d asked customers...
Some of the most important technologies of our era, such as the fracking techniques developed over the past six decades for extracting natural gas, came about because of countless small innovations as...
So does that mean your real parents didn’t want you?
So Jobs and Markkula enlisted Gerry Roche, a gregarious corporate headhunter, to find someone else. They decided not to focus on technology executives; what they needed was a consumer marketer who kne...
Simplicity isn’t just a visual style. It’s not just minimalism or the absence of clutter. It involves digging through the depth of the complexity. To be truly simple, you have to go really deep.
Si quieres vivir de forma creativa, como un artista, no debes mirar demasiado hacia atrás. Tienes que estar dispuesto a recoger todo lo que eres y todo lo que has hecho y arrojarlo por la ventana.
Seasons or Ritz-Carlton hotel. So Johnson sent his first five store managers through the Ritz-Carlton training
Publicity whiz who guided Jobs early on and remained a trusted advisor. M
Physics should represent a reality in time and space, free from spooky action at a distance.
Painting a conventional portrait for a pushy patron did not interest him. Nor did money motivate him. He painted portraits if the subject struck his fancy, such as the Musician, or if a powerful ruler...
One useful leadership talent is knowing when to push ahead against doubters and when to heed them.
One method, which he had developed during his mock debates with John Collins in Boston and then when discoursing with Keimer, was to pursue topics through soft, Socratic queries. That became the prefe...
One day ladies will take their computers for walks in the park and tell each other ‘My little computer said such a funny thing this morning!’ he japed in 1951.
One aspect of innovation is inventing new devices; another is inventing popular ways to use these devices.
On the Electrodynamics of Moving Bodies Now let’s look at how Einstein articulated all of this in the famous paper that the Annalen der Physik received on June 30, 1905. For all its momentous import,...
Oddest of all, there is this entry: Go every Saturday to the hot bath where you will see naked men.10 We can imagine Leonardo wanting to do
Lembrar-me de que irei morrer dentro de pouco tempo é a ferramenta mais importante que já encontrei para me ajudar a fazer as grandes escolhas da vida. Porque quase tudo — todas as expectativas extern...
Kissinger traces the balances made in foreign policy, including that of realism and idealism, from the times of Cardinal Richelieu through chapters on Theodore Roosevelt the realist and Woodrow Wilson...
Josiah practiced the art, which his son would perfect, of marrying public virtue with private profit: he made money by selling candles to the night watchmen he oversaw.