So Jobs and his team became excited about the prospect of building a phone that they would want to use. That’s the best motivator of all, Jobs later said.
Unfortunately his Zen training never quite produced in him a Zen-like calm or inner serenity, and that too is part of his legacy. He was often tightly coiled and impatient, traits he made no effort to...
Once a year Jobs took his most valuable employees on a retreat, which he called The Top 100. They were picked based on a simple guideline: the people you would bring if you could take only a hundred...
It's a complex song, and it's fascinating to watch the creative process as they went back and forth and finally created it over a few months. Lennon was always my favorite Beatle. [ He laughs as Lenno...
Study of light hitting a head.
More than anyone else of his time, he made products that were completely innovative, combining the power of poetry and processors. With a ferocity that could make working with him as unsettling as it...
After the applause, he used the quotations book to make a more subtle point, about his reality distortion field. The quote he chose was from Lewis Carroll's Through the Looking Glass. After Alice lame...
Declined to keep licensing it out. If the platform goes closed, it is over, Kahng said. Total destruction. Closed is the kiss of death. Jobs disagreed. He telephoned Ed Woolard to say he was getting A...
So Germany in the 1920s was not a good place or time to be an internationalist, pacifist, intellectual Jew.
Mucusless Diet Healing System by Arnold Ehret, an early twentieth-century German-born nutrition fanatic. He
Walter Isaacson, the CEO of the Aspen Institute, has been the chairman of CNN and the managing editor of Time magazine. He is the author of Einstein: His Life and Universe, Benjamin Franklin: An Ameri...
I discovered that the best innovation is sometimes the company, the way you organize a company.
Most outside experts disagreed. Maybe it’s time Steve Jobs stopped thinking quite so differently, Business Week wrote in a story headlined Sorry Steve, Here’s Why Apple Stores Won’t Work.
What are the five products you want to focus on? Get rid of the rest, because they’re dragging you down. They’re turning you into Microsoft. They’re causing you to turn out products that are adequate...
As much as Henry Kissinger wanted to attribute historical movement to impersonal forces, he too conceded to the difference personalities make.
The son not of a lawyer but of a high school dropout with a passion for mechanics and his salt-of-the-earth wife who was working as a bookkeeper. Paul and Clara named their new
He also came to like the idea of having a uniform for himself, because of both its daily convenience (the rationale he claimed) and its ability to convey a signature style. So I asked Issey to make me...
The good men may do separately, he wrote, is small compared with what they may do collectively.
Instead, Franklin found a good and faithful helpmate who was frugal and practical and devoid of pretensions, traits that he later noted were far more valuable to a rising tradesman.
He and Egan also spoke for hours on the phone many nights. One topic they wrestled with was his belief, which came from his Buddhist studies, that it was important to avoid attachment to material obje...
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