Steve Jobs Quotes

Innovation is all about people. Innovation thrives when the population is diverse, accepting and willing to cooperate.

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

Innovation is so hard and so frustrating; it takes the intersections of people with courage, vision, and resources.

My job is to not be easy on people. My job is to make them better. My job is to pull things together from different parts of the company and clear the ways and get the resources for the key projects. And to take these great people we have and to push them and make them even better, coming up with more aggressive visions of how it could be.

Business is about people. It's about passion. It's about bold ideas, bold small ideas or bold large ideas.

I'm a visionary. I'm not a maintenance person.

Basic philosophy, spirit and drive of an organization have far more to do with its relative achievements than do technological or economic resources, organizational structure, innovation and timing.

If you can provide the funding and you get the leadership, you'll have a competitive team.

Don't wait for someone to tell you what to do. Develop an innovative solution and work as a team to make it happen.

You have to have an idea of what you need to do, what needs to be fixed, what can be improved, what we should now imagine together which we didn't previously imagine. And having thought of it, decide to go it. And that's the government's role.

You have to think that the answer - and the right answer - for you and your organization might not be something that's been done before. And it's up to you to discover and work with your team to form and figure out how to do successfully.

When you need to innovate, you need collaboration.

You can have X's and O's, you can have talent, but if you don't have a vision, it won't work.

Good direction is often based on the ability to communicate.

Any kind of vision needs people.

Like many of my fellow entrepreneurs, I didn't create Hearsay Social with my co-founder Steve Garrity because it would be fun and easy, but because we're at our best when faced with enormous challenges.

The manager asks how and when; the leader asks what and why.

To me, success in the job is setting a vision, guiding an organization through change - which is exactly what I did at Digitas, and I'm very proud of that - and bringing people together and with you. That, to me, is what it takes to be successful.

True leadership isn't about having an idea. It's about having an idea and recruiting other people to execute on this vision.

Innovation distinguishes between a leader and a follower.

I am active in brain storming with our people, our strategists, in Thailand.

The world needs a better understanding of how to encourage innovation. And innovators need to get better at it. Sign me up.

And I'd say one of the great lessons I've learned over the past couple of decades, from a management perspective, is that really when you come down to it, it really is all about people and all about leadership.

A manager is a guide. He takes a group of people and says, 'With you I can make us a success; I can show you the way.'

Leadership requires a blend of strategy, persuasion, inspiration and motivation. It is based on respect more than fear.