Category: business leader
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Part of what made the Macintosh great was that the people working on it were musicians, poets, and artists, and zoologists, and historians. They also happened to be the best computer scientists in the world. But if it hadn’t been computer science, these people would have been doing amazing things in other fields.
Steve Jobs
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The basis of our partnership strategy and our partnership approach: We build the social technology. They provide the music.
Mark Zuckerberg
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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.
Steve Jobs
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The first rule of any technology used in a business is that automation applied to an efficient operation will magnify the efficiency. The second is that automation applied to an inefficient operation will magnify the inefficiency.
Bill Gates
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I didn’t used to wear a watch. Now I have a SPOT watch, which I wear all the time.
Bill Gates
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The team with the best players wins.
Jack Welch
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I think it’s fair to say that personal computers have become the most empowering tool we’ve ever created. They’re tools of communication, they’re tools of creativity, and they can be shaped by their user.
Bill Gates
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It wasn’t until we got our first office in Palo Alto where things became more like a company. We never went into this wanting to build a company.
Mark Zuckerberg
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Just take terrorism, for example. We have a team of more than 200 people working on counterterrorism. I mean, that’s pretty intense. That’s not like what people think about what Facebook is.
Mark Zuckerberg
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If all my bridge coach ever told me was that I was ‘satisfactory,’ I would have no hope of ever getting better. How would I know who was the best? How would I know what I was doing differently?
Bill Gates