110 quotes found
“One of Job's great strengths was knowing how to focus. " Deciding what not to do is as important as deciding what to do, " he said. " That's true for companies, and it's true for products.”
“One sticking point was that Jobs wanted his payout to be in cash. Amelio insisted that he needed to "have skin in the game" and take the payout in stock that he would agree to hold for at least a y...”
“On Wall Street, the lawyers play the same role as medics in war: They come in after the shooting is over to clean up the mess.”
“The reason they outperformed her was that they accepted each new “product” without trying to understand it. They got behind the new pitch wholeheartedly, even when it was risible and/or made no sen...”
“One of Job's business rules was to never be afraid of cannibalizing yourself. " If you don't cannibalize yourself, someone else will," he said. So even though an Iphone might cannibalize sales of a...”
“We kind of missed the boat on that," he recalled. " So we needed to catch up real fast." The mark of an innovative company is not only that it comes up with new ideas first, but also that it knows ...”
“The unified field theory that ties together Jobs personality and products begins with his most salient trait: his intensity. His silences could be as searing as his rants; he had taught himself to ...”
“In ancient Rome, when a victorious general paraded through the streets, legend has it that he was sometimes trailed by a servant whose job it was to repeat to him, " Memento Mori": Remember you wil...”
“The first step to solving any problem is to accept one’s own accountability for creating it.”
“Being relevant to your customers only when you’re trying to sell something means choosing to be irrelevant to them for the rest of the time.”
“When you’re a manager, you work for your company. When you’re a leader, your company works for you.”
“Work/life balance is not about escaping work. It’s about living exactly the way you want to when you’re at work.”
“The worst thing in your own development as a leader is not to do it wrong. It’s to do it for the wrong reasons.”
“When rewards come from an external source instead of an internal source, they’re unreliable, which means they’re dangerous if you grow to depend on them.”
“Human behavior is only unpredictable and dangerous if you don’t start from humanity in the first place.”
“Here’s what you need to know most about leadership: Lead your own life first. The only thing in this world that will dependably happen from the top down is the digging of your grave.”
“It’s impossible for a company to get what it wants most if managers have to make a choice between their own values and company priorities.”
“A manager’s emotional commitment is the ultimate trigger for their discretionary effort, worth more than financial, intellectual & physical commitment combined.”
“You can stuff yourself with emotional fulfillment until it’s dribbling down your chin & your ego will quickly chomp it down and demand more.”
“Your company really has to work for you before you’ll really work for your company.”
