Steve Jobs Quotes

You know, IBM was almost knocked out of the box by other types of computer software and manufacturing.

The desktop computer industry is dead. Innovation has virtually ceased. Microsoft dominates with very little innovation. That's over. Apple lost. The desktop market has entered the dark ages, and it's going to be in the dark ages for the next 10 years, or certainly for the rest of this decade.

Once IBM gains control of a market sector, they almost always stop innovation. They prevent innovation from happening.

The next thing is: we can make IBM even better. We brought IBM back but we're gunning for leadership.

What brought mass innovation to a nation was not scientific advances - its own or others' - but 'economic dynamism': the desire and the space to innovate.

Once a new technology rolls over you, if you're not part of the steamroller, you're part of the road.

I don't want the technology of the 1950s, but I want the free market of the 1950s.

Disruption is continuously afoot in every industry, but especially in autos. It is how Toyota, Nissan and Honda bloodied Detroit: They did not start their attack with Lexus, Infiniti and Acura, but with low-end subcompact models branded Corona, Datsun and CVCC.

We're at maybe 1% of what is possible. Despite the faster change, we're still moving slow relative to the opportunities we have. I think a lot of that is because of the negativity... Every story I read is Google vs someone else. That's boring. We should be focusing on building the things that don't exist.

Every company that made computers when we started the Mac, they're all gone.

Competition is all in numbers; it's a numbers game, but I looked at it like it's a passion, and it's art.

How did the economy produce all these amazing things that we have around us - computers and cell phones and so on? There were a bunch of ideas, and the good ones grew and prospered. And the bad ones were pretty ruthlessly weeded out.

He who puts ... a product upon the market as it demands, controls that market, regardless of color. It is simply a survival of the fittest.

Every time you go for more competition, some people don’t like it, but that’s the way it is. We believe it is better for the people.

I think the idealism has always been marketing. Even back in the early days of Apple and the 'pirate' mentality, they were building a computer that they wanted to differentiate from IBM and Microsoft.

One thing about technology is that there's always a win, place, and show, and everyone else goes under.

Without competition, Silicon Valley will stop taking risks and will stop innovating.

What I try to focus on is not to try to stop the march of technological progress. Instead, I try to run faster. If Amazon knows you better than you know yourself, then the game is up.

People knew about IBM before they knew about Apple. Sometimes it takes a little longer for better to win.

Once it's over and you understand what's going on, it's a shame. You want to win three sets.

Look at the computer industry. I've watched a lot of companies come and go, some that were right at the pinnacle of their success.

Competition like that seen between Blue Origin and SpaceX is key to rapid progress in space.

You want an idea that turns into a monopoly. But you can't get a monopoly, in a big market right away; too much competition for that.

The team that makes the most mistakes usually wins, because doers make mistakes

It makes me sad when I see things that are just the same technology; you aren't passing the technology forward.