If You Want To Live Your Life

I'd Like The People Teaching My Kids To Be Good Enough That They Could Get A Job At The Company I Work For, Making A Hundred Thousand Dollars A Year. Why Should They Work At A School For Thirty-five To Forty Thousand Dollars If They Could Get A Job Here At A Hundred Thousand Dollars A Year?

By Honoring The Lives Of Those We Admire, We Make Our Own Values Known.

At Apple, People Are Putting In 18-hour Days. We Attract A Different Type Of Person—a Person Who Doesn’t Want To Wait Five Or Ten Years To Have Someone Take A Giant Risk On Him Or Her. Someone Who Really Wants To Get In A Little Over His Head And Make A Little Dent In The Universe. We Are Aware That We Are Doing Something Significant. We’re Here At The Beginning Of It And We’re Able To Shape How It Goes. Everyone Here Has The Sense That Right Now Is One Of Those Moments When We Are Influencing The Future.

When You're Young, You Look At Television And Think, There's A Conspiracy. The Networks Have Conspired To Dumb Us Down. But When You Get A Little Older, You Realize That's Not True. The Networks Are In Business To Give People Exactly What They Want.

Some Mistakes Will Be Made Along The Way. That's Good. Because Some Decisions Are Being Made Along The Way. We'll Find The Mistakes. We'll Fix Them.