Steve Jobs Quotes

The Nordic governments have adopted a market-friendly approach to regulation. Although they maintain regulations to protect workers, consumers and the environment, they balance those protections with a system that encourages entrepreneurship and flexibility by making it easy to start or close a business, to hire or fire employees, and to adjust work hours.

I started the company in 1986, but we didn't have the money to do a show until '92.

The best thing I could do is build a successful company and continue to innovate and be in the right role I want to be in. If I'm not doing that, I'm inauthentic. That's not a good role model to anyone. That, to me, is the most important thing.

Vanguard never would have happened if I hadn't been fired as CEO of Wellington Management Company, the firm that did the investing for the Wellington fund and eight sister funds.

I had to quit a 'real job' to start my first company.

Building a product is easy. But building the company that builds the product is hard.

He [Steve Jobs] had more of the future vision: We can bring this to everyone; we can start a company; we can sell it.

It's lonely at the top - if you don't like that, then you don't start a company.

Do I want to start my own production company? No, I doubt it. I'm too old for that. I don't want to start anything.

Every company has a rocky beginning.

There are exceptions of course, but most companies start with a great idea - not a pivot.

As a startup CEO, I slept like a baby. I woke up every 2 hours and cried.

The only thing that prepares you to run a company is running a company.

The fact is, there are Fortune 500 companies that have been founded during recessions.

There is perhaps no specific time that is necessarily right to start your company or start your life. But some times and some moments seem more auspicious than others. Now is such a moment. If we don’t take charge and usher in the future - if you don’t take charge of your life - there is the sense that no one else will.

Reliance's success is a reflection of India's capabilities, the talent of her people and the potential of her entrepreneurs, engineers, managers, and workers.

I actually met one of my business partners [Neal Dodson] at the Governor's School summer program, so we've known each other since we were 15 and 16 years old, and we both ended up at Carnegie Mellon together. He started working for a producer out of school after a few years, and then we started the company together.

If your business depends on you, you don’t own a business—you have a job. And it’s the worst job in the world because you’re working for a lunatic!

The average for entrepreneurs is 3.8 failures before they finally make it in business.

First word [of my father] when I arrived [as a CEO] is, 'Son, i hope your first deal is a loser, otherwise, you'll think you're a lot smarter than you are.' But he had tremendous values, tremendous integrity, humility, work ethic and terrific thirst for knowledge.

In the history of enterprise, most of the protagonists of major new products and companies began their education

Because you’re such a good salesman, and if you go work for a company, they’re going to use you as a salesman. If you’re going to be a salesman, you might as well be selling something worthwhile, like education

My father has created an enormous business and he's created an enormous brand for himself, and I'm contributing to the business that he's built every day at The Trump Organization

Apple is this great American company that could have only happened here.

I may not be able to work for anybody else again. I may just have to work for myself.