Steve Jobs

“And I think you know, no Morita, no Sony, no iPhone.”

“I always say that I don't think that a computer can sit down with five business plans and figure out which one is Amazon in advance, or meet five CEOs and know which one is Steve Jobs.”

“What is interesting is it was written a lot about as this sort of Steve jobs initiative and, you know, I'm sure he okayed it, but he had basically no involvement at all. Tim cook was very heavily involved.”

“Every Wednesday at like three o'clock or I forgot the time, they had like a three hour meeting. He would approve, have to approve every single piece of advertising marketing that went out for Apple. There's not a fucking billboard in Kentucky that went out wit…”

“Like when we used to watch the presentations that Steve would give, where he's like, oh, we're building at the intersection of technology and liberal... Arts. He put it up on the screen. He ripped that off wholesale. It is literally Edwin Land said that exact …”

“I think the difference is from, like, a founder's perspective, like, there is no working with Steve Jobs. It's working for.”

“Out of every single person I've ever studied, Steve Jobs is by far the clearest thinker I have Ever come across.”

“Steve Jobs Shows Bill Gates the Mac project in 1981. Three years before it ships. And Microsoft and Apple signed an agreement to work together on applications for it in 1982.”

“He was right, except for one, the general counsel. They were all gone.”

“The next year, in 2008, when the iPhone SDK was launching and people were building apps, Mark and Facebook actually go to Apple and meet with Steve, and they pitch Steve on exactly what you were just talking about, Ben. Like, hey, how about you let us bring ou…”

“There's one person that we met in this whole process who we think meets our bar, who we would be willing to come in and hire as our CEO here at Google. Oh God, who is it? Steve Jobs.”

“So Steve Jobs threatens to sue Google over implementation of multi-touch gestures. And so, as a result, Android for several years doesn't have things like pinch to zoom or the sort of swipe operating system UI navigation gestures, and I'm pretty sure if you re…”

“Enzo was a natural born Entrepreneur and marketer. He really was Italy's Steve Jobs in every aspect.”

“He proposes a deal to Eisner, and this is where the relationship becomes irreparable. Pixar should actually be getting a hundred percent of the profits, not 50%, and they're now prepared to fund the budget themselves, too. Disney would just get a 10% distribut…”

“Pixar closes its first day of trading, At a one and a half billion dollar market cap, this is how big a hit Toy Story was and how much it was in the public consciousness. This is how Steve Jobs becomes a billionaire... He didn't make anywhere near that kind of…”

“He writes in 1986 a five million dollar check to George Lucas to buy the company. Another five million dollar check into a new entity that he just created to fund the company. It's formally named Pixar, and it is owned 70% by Steve Jobs and 30% by employees.”

“The numbers on Steve, he bought the company for five million dollars. He actually did dump fifty four million dollars into it. Over nine years. He was, like, wiring money for payroll and stuff like that, and on IPO day, he owned 78% of the company.”