Yesterday, October 4 was a special day for Apple. Indeed, it was on October 5 that the former CEO of the firm passed away, in 2011. The man was and is still considered by many as ainnovation genius. It remains no less divisive, due to the way in which he was able to manage his employees within the Cupertino company in particular, but also by other decisions which marked his personal life (choice of special diets , contestation of the paternity of his daughterLisa Brennan-Jobs, among others).
- Read in particular:Steve Jobs: 14 surprising facts about the father of the iPhone
Like every human, Steve Jobs had his qualities and his faults. In any case, we cannot take away from him the fact that he knewleading Apple brilliantly until the handover with Tim Cook in January 2011.
Without Steve Jobs, Apple would certainly not be the company we know today. Perhaps we wouldn't even have known about the iPhone if Steve Jobs hadn't been at the helm. And then, we also remember the gentleman as the charismatic speaker that he was, never shy of the right formula. Here, to pay tribute to him on the occasion of the anniversary of his death, are 11 of his quotes that we particularly appreciate:
- Innovating means knowing how to abandon thousands of good ideas
- The user only realizes that a product meets his needs after using it
- My business models are the Beatles: four people who complement each other perfectly by compensating for each other's weaknesses. This is how I see the business world: great successes are never the result of the work of a single person, but of a united team
- You can't expect users to predict the next big thing. As Henry Ford said, “If I had asked my customers what they wanted, they would have said: a faster horse.”
- There's no point recruiting smart people to tell them what to do. We hire them precisely to show us the way forward.
- Simplicity is the ultimate form of sophistication
- Product design isn't just about how it looks, it's about how it works.
- These are the ideas that make it possible to attract and keep the best collaborators with you and not domination by the hierarchy
- I like incremental improvements, but I've always been more drawn to revolutionary changes. I don't really know why. Perhaps because they are more difficult, more emotionally taxing. And you usually go through a period where everyone tells you you're on the wrong track.
- Your work will occupy a large part of your life. The only way to be truly happy is to do what you think is great work. To achieve this, you have to love your job. If you haven't found it yet, keep looking. Don't settle for less. As with all matters of the heart, you will feel it as soon as you find it
- I'm not interested in being the richest man in the cemetery. Going to bed at night telling myself that we have achieved something wonderful… that’s what matters most to me
Do not hesitate to tell us which one touches you the most and why in the comments of this article.
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