If Something Is Not Good Enough, Stop

Apple Was Very Close To Bankruptcy And To Irrelevance [but] You Learn A Lot About Life Through Death, And I Learnt A Lot About Vital Corporations By Experiencing A Non-vital Corporation. You Would Have Thought That, When What Stands Between You And Bankruptcy Is Some Money, Your Focus Would Be On Making Some Money, But That Was Not [steve Jobs’] Preoccupation. His Observation Was That The Products Weren’t Good Enough And His Resolve Was, We Need To Make Better Products. That Stood In Stark Contrast To The Previous Attempts To Turn The Company Around.

The Most Important Thing Is That You Actually Care, That You Do Something To The Very Best Of Your Ability

One Of The Hallmarks Of The Team Is This Sense Of Looking To Be Wrong. It's The Inquisitiveness, And Sense Of Exploration. It's About Being Excited To Be Wrong, Because Then You've Discovered Something New.

When You're Trying To Solve A Problem On A New Product Type, You Become Completely Focused On Problems That Seem A Number Of Steps Removed From The Main Product. That Problem Solving Can Appear A Little Abstract, And It Is Easy To Lose Sight Of The Product.

We Make And Sell A Very, Very Large Number Of (hopefully) Beautiful, Well-made Things. Our Success Is A Victory For Purity, Integrity - For Giving A Damn.