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"It is piracy, not overt online music stores, which is our main competitor."
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"The ultimate profit of all businesses should be happiness."
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"16th century advertisements cannot market 21st century products. Look for what is necessary at the present moment."
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"Hitting is business. With two strikes you really protect that plate."
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"If you have ever experienced this type of unprofessional treatment, I doubt you would even consider giving them business in the future. Interrupting, ignoring, patronizing, or antagonizing a customer is like pouring gas on a fire and creates a more explosive situation than the original complaint. Still, it continues to happen every day, costing companies millions in lost revenue."
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"But my sense in talking to people when I travel is that the film business is not that dissimilar from a lot of other businesses."
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"My grandfather had a paint store. It's what put my mom through college. Small business is part of my family history."
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"All those years we'd spent learning these chops, and all those gigs in Germany where you'd play all night, and along comes punk. It has nothing to do with that. A lot of people went out of business."
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"When you're five years old, and you're running a business that people did not think there was room for, getting attention is not a bad thing. Letting it be known by whatever colorful language is necessary is not a bad thing."
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"It's really impossible to project ahead even six months in this business."
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"I fear this little episode does not speak very favourably for my business capacity in those early days, for I certainly ought to have made much more than I did by this really important invention."
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"It's not the tools that you have faith in. Tools are just tools. They work, or they don't work. It's people you have faith in or not."
Trust
"I have a great respect for incremental improvement, and I've done that sort of thing in my life, but I've always been attracted to the more revolutionary changes."
Innovation
"The people who are doing the work are the moving force behind the Macintosh. My job is to create a space for them, to clear out the rest of the organization and keep it at bay."
Leadership
"I want to put a ding in the universe."
Creativity
"I'm convinced that about half of what separates successful entrepreneurs from the non-successful ones is pure perseverance."
Success
"I think we're having fun. I think our customers really like our products. And we're always trying to do better."
Business
"It took us three years to build the NeXT computer. If we'd given customers what they said they wanted, we'd have built a computer they'd have been happy with a year after we spoke to them - not something they'd want now."
Leadership
"You can't just ask customers what they want and then try to give that to them. By the time you get it built, they'll want something new."
Business
"Everyone here has the sense that right now is one of those moments when we are influencing the future."
Future
"I'm as proud of many of the things we haven't done as the things we have done. Innovation is saying no to a thousand things."
Innovation
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