No Great Marketing Decisions Have Ever Been

Steve [jobs] And I Spent Months Getting To Know Each Other Before I Joined Apple. He Had No Exposure To Marketing Other Than What He Picked Up On His Own. This Is Sort Of Typical Of Steve. When He Knows Something Is Going To Be Important, He Tries To Absorb As Much As He Possibly Can.

Insatiable Curiosity Is Infectious To Everyone Around You. We Live In An Era Today Where We Can Get The Answers For Everything. In My Generation, Going To School Meant Learning The Answers. Today, Education Should Be More About Knowing What The Right Questions Are. The Answers Come For Free.

If We Hadn't Put A Man On The Moon, There Wouldn't Be A Silicon Valley Today

Steve Jobs Was Not An Engineer: He Was A Brilliant Individual With This Ability To See Around Corners, To See Things That Other People Couldn't See. I've Learned Over The Years In The Apple That There Are Some Really Talented People Who Can Take The Same Evidence, The Same Facts, And Look At Them And See Them In A Way That Interprets Those Facts Entirely Different Than Most People Do.

I Feel Most Badly, Though, [because] After 10 Years, I Was At The Company, I Wanted To Go Back To New York Where I Was From. Why I Didn’t Go To Steve Jobs And Say, ‘steve, Let’s Figure Out How You Can Come Back And Lead Your Company.’ I Didn’t Do That, It Was A Terrible Mistake On My Part. I Can’t Figure Out Why I Didn’t Have The Wisdom To Do That. But I Didn’t. And As Life Has It, Shortly After That, I Was Fired.