Steve Jobs Quotes

You could use many adjectives to describe Silicon Valley; I don't think 'normal' is one of them.

The most essential thing for us was to get the business model right, then put the world-class technology under it to support it. At Merrill, that meant not doing what people expected.

We did it with passion; we didn't do it like everyone else. Teams nowadays are still trying to duplicate that, but no one has yet. We shuffled down and we did it. We did it in an unique fashion.

To create a new standard, it takes something that's not just a little bit different; it takes something that's really new and really captures people's imagination, and the Macintosh, of all the machines I've ever seen, is the only one that meets that standard.

I want to do something that people have not seen before... surprise everyone. There has to be variety in work.

We're trying to do something nobody else is doing right now.

James Cameron has always been great about changing the rules.

Different is better. I get more jobs being different.

At the end of the day, you want to be always the one that's one step ahead of everybody, and when it comes to hip-hop, culture and art, you want to be that signature guy.

If somebody is young and brilliant and imaginative, he will be listened to, even if he is a little unorthodox.

My show was revolutionary, ground-breaking. When I came on the scene, people were not doing a thing.

Cutting edge, breakthrough, television. That's what we want to do.

A lot of people have said a lot of great things about Steve Jobs. And for good reason: he built the world's second-most valuable company, with billions in profits and products that have improved every aspect of our lives. But Steve didn't get there by being a soft, fluffy, Kumbaya-type leader.

I think the idealism has always been marketing. Even back in the early days of Apple and the 'pirate' mentality, they were building a computer that they wanted to differentiate from IBM and Microsoft.

My mentally for my character is you have to be first, better, or different. I know that I'm not the best at everything; in fact, I'm not the best at a lot of things, so I'm going to be different, or I'm going to be the first one to do it.

I think if you want to be groundbreaking, you have to do something that's never been done.

Pop shouldn't be a comfortable slipper. It should shock and surprise you and confront your expectations.

We wanted to do something really, really different, something next level, and use new technology and things.

Cheap Trick have always prided ourselves on being groundbreaking.

All my records and videos were groundbreaking.

Creativity can only be anarchic, capitalist, Darwinian.

Kevin Systrom of Instagram used to work for us as a consultant in the early days of Mint. I knew him a long time ago. Maybe I could have gotten in there. But with photo sharing, I don't know if there's an obvious business model. I don't think there's a competitive, sustainable advantage.

I think that, given a real choice, people would like to hear something interesting, not something bland and right down the middle.

A strategy delineates a territory in which a company seeks to be unique.

I think Microsoft will have to change. I think that the business of Microsoft, the company of Microsoft, is going to continue to succeed. But I think the business model of Microsoft is going to have to change.