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"The people who are doing the work are the moving force behind the Macintosh. My job is to create a space for them, to clear out the rest of the organization and keep it at bay."

Leadership, Work, People, Force, Job

"It is piracy, not overt online music stores, which is our main competitor."

Business, Music

"I think we're having fun. I think our customers really like our products. And we're always trying to do better."

Business, Fun, Trying

"A lot of companies have chosen to downsize, and maybe that was the right thing for them. We chose a different path. Our belief was that if we kept putting great products in front of customers, they would continue to open their wallets."

Business, Belief, Open, Right

"Sometimes when you innovate, you make mistakes. It is best to admit them quickly, and get on with improving your other innovations."

Innovation, Mistakes

"Pretty much, Apple and Dell are the only ones in this industry making money. They make it by being Wal-Mart. We make it by innovation."

Business, Money, Being, Innovation, Pretty

"To turn really interesting ideas and fledgling technologies into a company that can continue to innovate for years, it requires a lot of disciplines."

Innovation, Ideas, Company, Years

"Be a yardstick of quality. Some people aren't used to an environment where excellence is expected."

Trust, Quality, People, Environment, Excellence

"It took us three years to build the NeXT computer. If we'd given customers what they said they wanted, we'd have built a computer they'd have been happy with a year after we spoke to them - not something they'd want now."

Leadership, Computer, Now, Want, Years

"Apple's market share is bigger than BMW's or Mercedes's or Porsche's in the automotive market. What's wrong with being BMW or Mercedes?"

Business, Being, Wrong

Exlpore more Leadership quotes

"One who breaks an unjust law that conscience tells him is unjust, and who willingly accepts the penalty of imprisonment in order to arouse the conscience of the community over its injustice, is in reality expressing the highest respect for law."

Martin Luther King, Jr., American Leader

Leadership, Community, Conscience, Imprisonment, Injustice

"You can always count on Americans to do the right thing - after they've tried everything else."

Winston Churchill, English Statesman

Leadership, Americans, Right

"In making a speech one must study three points: first, the means of producing persuasion; second, the language; third the proper arrangement of the various parts of the speech."

Aristotle, Greek Philosopher

Leadership, First, Language, Persuasion, Speech

"Neither the Army nor the Navy is of any protection, or very little protection, against aerial raids."

Alexander Graham Bell, Scottish Inventor

Leadership, Army, Navy, Protection

"When soldiers have been baptized in the fire of a battle-field, they have all one rank in my eyes."

Napoleon Bonaparte, French Leader

Leadership, Battle, Eyes, Fire, Rank

"All modern revolutions have ended in a reinforcement of the power of the State."

Albert Camus, French Philosopher

Leadership, Power, State

"Entrepreneurs and their small enterprises are responsible for almost all the economic growth in the United States."

Ronald Reagan, American President

Leadership, Growth, Entrepreneurs, States, United

"A vote is like a rifle; its usefulness depends upon the character of the user."

Theodore Roosevelt, American President

Leadership, Character, Usefulness, Vote

"Being an anchor is not just a matter of sitting in front of a camera and looking pretty."

David Brinkley, American Journalist

Leadership, Being, Pretty

"First I shake the whole Apple tree, that the ripest might fall. Then I climb the tree and shake each limb, and then each branch and then each twig, and then I look under each leaf."

Martin Luther, German Leader

Leadership, First