Those who met with greater economic success in life were responsible to help those in genuine need; but those who from lack of virtue failed to pull their own weight could expect no help from society.
This is also, I hope, a book about innovation. At a time when the United States is seeking ways to sustain its innovative edge, and when societies around the world are trying to build creative digital...
This concept of the cosmos that Einstein derived from his general theory of relativity was elegant and magical. But there seemed to be one hitch, a flaw that needed to be fixed or fudged. His theory i...
The tale of their teamwork is important because we don’t often focus on how central that skill is to innovation. There are thousands of books celebrating people we biographers portray, or mythologize,...
The most successful endeavors in the digital age were those run by leaders who fostered collaboration while also providing a clear vision. Too often these are seen as conflicting traits: a leader is e...
The most important human endeavor is the striving for morality in our actions, he wrote a Brooklyn minister. Our inner balance and even our existence depend on it. Only morality in our actions can giv...
The lesson Jobs learned from his Buddhist days was that material possessions often cluttered life rather than enriched it.
The goal was never to beat the competition, or to make a lot of money. It was to do the greatest thing possible, or even a little greater.
The general laws of nature are to be expressed by equations that hold true for all systems of coordinates, that is they are covariant with respect to any substitutions whatever.85 Einstein
The Mac, on the other hand, would end up being as insanely great as Jobs and his acolytes could possibly make it—but it would not ship for another sixteen months, way behind schedule.
The Apple Marketing Philosophy that stressed three points. The first was empathy, an intimate connection with the feelings of the customer: We will truly understand their needs better than any other c...
That’s crazy. Creativity comes from spontaneous meetings, from random discussions. You run into someone, you ask what they’re doing, you say ‘Wow,’ and soon you’re cooking up all sorts of ideas.
That was back when state governments valued education and realized the economic and social value of making it affordable.
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.
So as he grew old, he was not only respected and revered by his colleagues, he was loved.
Skill without imagination is barren. Leonardo knew how to marry observation and imagination, which made him history’s consummate innovator.
Rather than try to conform, he made a point of being different, dressing and carrying himself as a dandy.
Otherwise, as Dylan says, if you’re not busy being born, you’re busy dying. What
One of Jobs’s business rules was to never be afraid of cannibalizing yourself. If you don’t cannibalize yourself, someone else will,
On the other hand, he stressed in scores of letters and statements that Americans should not let the fear of communism cause them to surrender the civil liberties and freedom of thought that they cher...