I was lucky - I found what I loved to do early in life. Woz and I started Apple in my parents' garage when I was 20. We worked hard, and in 10 years, Apple had grown from just the two of us in a garage into a $2 billion company with over 4000 employees.

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STEVE JOBS Insanely Great!
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STEVE JOBS It comes from saying no to 1,000 things to make sure we don't get on the wrong track or try to do to...
STEVE JOBS I've always wanted to own and control the primary technology in everything we do.
STEVE JOBS And no, we don't know where it will lead. We just know there's something much bigger than an...
STEVE JOBS We use industry standard RSS so that anyone can subscribe. You do not even need a Mac.
STEVE JOBS This ushers in a new generation of iMacs. We started a partnership less than a year ago to make this...
STEVE JOBS Monsters, Inc. may become our studio's fourth blockbuster, and provide ongoing revenues for years to...
STEVE JOBS We are now in the phase of development where the foundational stuff is behind us,
STEVE JOBS It's really very beautiful and very thin.
STEVE JOBS This is the direct result of our focus on innovation and the immense talent and creativity at Apple....
STEVE JOBS I think it's just the beginning.
STEVE JOBS professional.
STEVE JOBS We've got a lot of Japanese content on the store and we'll be adding even more as the months go on, ...
STEVE JOBS Well, something had to leak,
STEVE JOBS A LITTLE TASTE.
STEVE JOBS WE PULLED IT OFF.
STEVE JOBS We've got five or six things to tell you about today, so let's get started.
STEVE JOBS We know Mac OS X is not perfect,
STEVE JOBS X factor.
STEVE JOBS It is not clear that buying songs over the air makes economic sense. I am skeptical because of the c...
STEVE JOBS We're working on that too, but I'm not so sure it will be successful.
STEVE JOBS We'll occupy both of them.
STEVE JOBS You could have a negative view of having 4 or 5 percent share, but one of the positives is that you ...
STEVE JOBS We're going to keep going until we're faster than those guys,
STEVE JOBS You've given us the time to get this turned around and get the volumes back up, and we deeply apprec...
STEVE JOBS to discover the deep sources of his character and motivation; what makes him exceptional as well as ...
STEVE JOBS And you guys were putting Java in light bulbs and everything else,
STEVE JOBS [Apple wants to make] not only the most powerful Macintosh built, but the most powerful [system] in ...
STEVE JOBS We have modified the Mac OS so it can boot over a network. It thinks it's doing it locally, but it's...
STEVE JOBS It's a non-issue for us... We sell computers.
STEVE JOBS We think this is a real breakthrough. It's never before been done, where you can buy hit prime-time ...
STEVE JOBS That same innovation, that same engineering, that same talent applied where we don't run up against ...
STEVE JOBS Customers think the price is really good where it is. We're trying to compete with piracy — we're ...
STEVE JOBS

I was lucky - I found what I loved to do early in life. Woz and I started Apple in my parents' garage when I was 20. We worked hard, and in 10 years, Apple had grown from just the two of us in a garage into a $2 billion company with over 4000 employees.

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I was lucky - I found what I loved to do early in life. Woz and I started Apple in my parents' garage when I was 20. We worked hard, and in 10 years, Apple had grown from just the two of us in a garage into a $2 billion company with over 4000 employees.

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