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" Now, we are selling over 5 million songs a day now. Isn't that unbelievable? That's 58 songs every second of every minute of every hour of every day. "
Steve Jobs
Now
Over
Selling
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" An iPod, a phone, an internet mobile communicator... these are NOT three separate devices! And we are calling it iPhone! Today Apple is going to reinvent the phone. And here it is. "
Steve Jobs
Internet
Phone
Today
" I'm sorry, it's true. Having children really changes your view on these things. We're born, we live for a brief instant, and we die. It's been happening for a long time. Technology is not changing it much - if at all. "
Steve Jobs
Sorry
Live
Technology
" We want to reinvent the phone. What's the killer app? The killer app is making calls! It's amazing how hard it is to make calls on most phones. We want to let you use contacts like never before - sync your iPhone with your PC or mac. "
Steve Jobs
Amazing
Never
Phone
" As individuals, people are inherently good. I have a somewhat more pessimistic view of people in groups. And I remain extremely concerned when I see what's happening in our country, which is in many ways the luckiest place in the world. We don't seem to be excited about making our country a better place for our kids. "
Steve Jobs
People
World
Better
" You know, my main reaction to this money thing is that it's humorous, all the attention to it, because it's hardly the most insightful or valuable thing that's happened to me. "
Steve Jobs
Because
Money
You
" I didn't see it then, but it turned out that getting fired from Apple was the best thing that could have ever happened to me. The heaviness of being successful was replaced by the lightness of being a beginner again, less sure about everything. It freed me to enter one of the most creative periods of my life. "
Steve Jobs
Me
Apple
My Life
" But Apple really beats to a different drummer. I used to say that Apple should be the Sony of this business, but in reality, I think Apple should be the Apple of this business. "
Steve Jobs
Think
Reality
Apple
" A lot of companies have chosen to downsize, and maybe that was the right thing for them. We chose a different path. Our belief was that if we kept putting great products in front of customers, they would continue to open their wallets. "
Steve Jobs
Belief
The Right Thing
Path
" Design is not just what it looks like and feels like. Design is how it works. "
Steve Jobs
Feels
Just
Looks
" What is Apple, after all? Apple is about people who think 'outside the box,' people who want to use computers to help them change the world, to help them create things that make a difference, and not just to get a job done. "
Steve Jobs
Change The World
Job
Change
" Of all the inventions of humans, the computer is going to rank near or at the top as history unfolds and we look back. It is the most awesome tool that we have ever invented. I feel incredibly lucky to be at exactly the right place in Silicon Valley, at exactly the right time, historically, where this invention has taken form. "
Steve Jobs
History
Time
Back
" Being the richest man in the cemetery doesn't matter to me. Going to bed at night saying we've done something wonderful, that's what matters to me. "
Steve Jobs
Bed
Night
Me
" My biological mother later found out that my mother had never graduated from college and that my father had never graduated from high school. She refused to sign the final adoption papers. She only relented a few months later when my parents promised that I would someday go to college. "
Steve Jobs
School
Father
Mother
" I've done a lot of things I'm not proud of, such as getting my girlfriend pregnant when I was 23 and the way I handled that. "
Steve Jobs
Things
Done
Way
" Your work is going to fill a large part of your life, and the only way to be truly satisfied is to do what you believe is great work. And the only way to do great work is to love what you do. If you haven't found it yet, keep looking. Don't settle. As with all matters of the heart, you'll know when you find it. "
Steve Jobs
Inspirational
Heart
Life
" Sometimes life hits you in the head with a brick. Don't lose faith. "
Steve Jobs
Life
Lose
Sometimes
" It's not the tools that you have faith in - tools are just tools. They work, or they don't work. It's people you have faith in or not. Yeah, sure, I'm still optimistic I mean, I get pessimistic sometimes but not for long. "
Steve Jobs
People
Faith
Long
" I'm very excited about having the Internet in my den. "
Steve Jobs
About
Internet
Having
" My model for business is The Beatles: They were four guys that kept each others' negative tendencies in check; they balanced each other. And the total was greater than the sum of the parts. "
Steve Jobs
Negative
Others
Business
" Remembering that you are going to die is the best way I know to avoid the trap of thinking you have something to lose. You are already naked. There is no reason not to follow your heart. "
Steve Jobs
Heart
Die
Best
" Woz is living his own life now. He hasn't been around Apple for about five years. But what he did will go down in history. "
Steve Jobs
History
Living
Apple
" A lot of people in our industry haven't had very diverse experiences. So they don't have enough dots to connect, and they end up with very linear solutions without a broad perspective on the problem. The broader one's understanding of the human experience, the better design we will have. "
Steve Jobs
End
People
Perspective
" I don't think I've ever worked so hard on something, but working on Macintosh was the neatest experience of my life. Almost everyone who worked on it will say that. None of us wanted to release it at the end. It was as though we knew that once it was out of our hands, it wouldn't be ours anymore. "
Steve Jobs
Think
End
Experience
" First was the mouse. The second was the click wheel. And now, we're going to bring multi-touch to the market. And each of these revolutionary interfaces has made possible a revolutionary product - the Mac, the iPod and now the iPhone. "
Steve Jobs
Possible
Product
Wheel
" The over-all point is that new technology will not necessarily replace old technology, but it will date it. By definition. Eventually, it will replace it. But it's like people who had black-and-white TVs when color came out. They eventually decided whether or not the new technology was worth the investment. "
Steve Jobs
Technology
Investment
Color
" I think we're having fun. I think our customers really like our products. And we're always trying to do better. "
Steve Jobs
Fun
Having Fun
Trying
" We hire people who want to make the best things in the world. "
Steve Jobs
World
Best
Hire
" My favorite things in life don't cost any money. It's really clear that the most precious resource we all have is time. "
Steve Jobs
Clear
Money
Precious
" There's no other company that could make a MacBook Air and the reason is that not only do we control the hardware, but we control the operating system. And it is the intimate interaction between the operating system and the hardware that allows us to do that. There is no intimate interaction between Windows and a Dell notebook. "
Steve Jobs
Reason
Air
Company
" The system is that there is no system. That doesn't mean we don't have process. Apple is a very disciplined company, and we have great processes. But that's not what it's about. Process makes you more efficient. "
Steve Jobs
You
Great
Process