Steve Jobs
United States
24 Feb 1955 // 5 Oct 2011
Entrepreneur / Inventor
24 Feb 1955 // 5 Oct 2011
Entrepreneur / Inventor
We had to lay some people off...every one that I had to do it personally, I thought, 'A lot of these fathers and mothers are going to have to...tell their families they just lost their jobs.' And I'd never really thought about that before.
Quoted in 'Steve's Two Jobs,' Time (Michael Krantz; October 18, 1999)
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On Anger: "For every minute you remain angry, you give up sixty seconds of peace of mind."
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On Destiny: "Our destiny exercises its influence over us even when, as yet, we have not learned its nature: it is our future that lays down the law of our today."
Human, All Too Human
Human, All Too Human
On Friendship: "A crowd is not company; and faces are but a gallery of pictures; and talk but a tinkling cymbal, where there is no love."
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Essays