Steve Jobs Quotes

One of the banes of successful innovation is that companies may be so committed to innovation that they will give the innovators a lot of money to spend.

Mathematicians are like managers - they want improvement without change.

Most companies don't have the luxury of focusing exclusively on innovation. They have to innovate while stamping out zillions of widgets or processing billions of transactions.

Business has only two functions - marketing and innovation.

Ultimately, innovation depends on the people with advanced skills who have the ideas, and on the business risk-takers willing to back them.

I've been good at product entrepreneuring.

Efficiency innovations provide return on investment in 12-18 months. Empowering innovations take 5-10 years to yield a return. We have ample capital - oceans of capital - that is being reinvested into efficiency innovation.

The only way anyone's going to succeed is to build the product.

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

What I learned at LucasArts was, you don't make your bets on ideas: ideas are cheap. You make your bets on people.

Executives need ample flexibility to respond to the market. That means both reducing costs and increasing innovation.

Growth is always essential. Running any tech company, you want to make sure you're growing. Putting in place all of the right structure to be able to ensure growth.

Twitter can afford to build the wrong things. However, Twitter cannot afford to build the right things too slowly.

Capital never builds great products.

You need to run the company on an even keel, and you need to be thinking about the company long-term and how to drive your next innovation.

I'm always investing and building things at the same time.

Don't worry about the financials. Just focus on delivering great products.

As businesses grow, all sorts of things that once were done on the fly - including creating new products - have a way of becoming bureaucratized.

Adaptability and constant innovation is key to the survival of any company operating in a competitive market.

As an entrepreneur, my problem was that I had too many ideas.

The biggest problem I see with early-stage entrepreneurs is they get the idea in their head, and they leave it in their head. And they begin embellishing it in their head, making it more ornate. They add on the second story to their dream house - then add the tennis court and the turrets and the gargoyles.

Not all of Microsoft's businesses are successful, but they have every technology possible.

Press releases are easier to write than code, and that is still easier than making a great product.

No amount of tools can help a bad product. You have to remain genuine in your product development innovation and quality.

We have to take a really close look at making sure that we are more surgical and more tailored in dealing with the production community and our producing partners.