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“I know from my own education that if I hadn't encountered two or three individuals that spent extra time with me, I'm sure I would have been in jail.”

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Steve Jobs was an American entrepreneur, inventor, and business leader. He co-founded Apple Inc. and led the company to launch revolutionary products such as the Macintosh computer, iPod, iPhone, and iPad. Known for his innovative spirit and exceptional business acumen, Jobs had a profound impact on the modern technology industry. more

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“I'd like the people teaching my kids to be good enough that they could get a job at the company I work for, making a hundred thousand dollars a year. Why should they work at a school for thirty-five to forty thousand dollars if they could get a job here at a hundred thousand dollars a year?”

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“The unions are the worst thing that ever happened to education because it's not a meritocracy. It turns into a bureaucracy, which is exactly what has happened. The teachers can't teach and administrators run the place and nobody can be fired. It's terrible.”

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“I dropped out of Reed College [Portland, Oregon] after the first six months, but then stayed around as a drop-in for another 18 months or so before I really quit. So why did I drop out?”

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“The most important thing is a person. A person who incites your curiosity and feeds your curiosity; and machines cannot do that in the same way that people can.”

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“The minute I dropped out I could stop taking the required classes that didn't interest me, and begin dropping in on the ones that looked interesting.”

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“Of course it was impossible to connect the dots looking forward when I was in college. But it was very, very clear looking backwards 10 years later.”

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“So when a good idea comes, you know, part of my job is to move it around, just see what different people think, get people talking about it, argue with people about it, get ideas moving among that group of 100 people, get different people together to explore different aspects of it quietly, and, you know – just explore things.”

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“I got very interested in people who had discovered something more significant than ... intellectual, abstract understanding.”

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“The world doesn't need another Dell or Compaq.”

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“Good PR educates people; that's all it is. You can't con people in this business. The products speak for themselves.”

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