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Leonardo Da Vinci Was Lucky To Be Born The Same Year That Johannes Gutenberg Opened His Printing Shop. As A Young Person, He Could Get Information About Whatever Struck His Curiosity. The Internet Is To Our Age What Gutenberg's Press Was To His, So He Would Have Loved Being Alive Today.

Jobs Did Not Know That Sculley Had Told Eisenstat He Wanted To Quit, But By Then It Didn't Matter. Overnight, He Had Changed His Mind And Decided To Stay. Despite The Blowup The Day Before, He Was Still Eager For Jobs To Like Him. So He Agreed To Meet The Next Afternoon.

Here’s To The Crazy Ones. The Misfits. The Rebels. The Troublemakers. The Round Pegs In The Square Holes. The Ones Who See Things Differently.

What Are The Five Products You Want To Focus On? Get Rid Of The Rest, Because They’re Dragging You Down. They’re Turning You Into Microsoft. They’re Causing You To Turn Out Products That Are Adequate But Not Great.

I Have My Own Theory About Why Decline Happens At Companies Like Ibm Or Microsoft. The Company Does A Great Job, Innovates And Becomes A Monopoly Or Close To It In Some Field, And Then The Quality Of The Product Becomes Less Important. The Company Starts Valuing The Great Salesmen, Because They’re The Ones Who Can Move The Needle On Revenues, Not The Product Engineers And Designers. So The Salespeople End Up Running The Company.