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Tag: steve jobs
We’re not anti- getting a big company.
What we’re anti- doing is doing something that’s not strategic.
Tim Cook. (via peterspear)
Find out what customers want without directly asking them.
Gregory Ciotti. “Why Steve Jobs Never Listened to His Customers” HelpScout (via peterspear)
Creativity is just connecting things. When you ask creative people how they did something, they feel a little guilty because they didn’t really do it, they just saw something. It seemed obvious to them after a while. That’s because they were able to connect experiences they’ve had and synthesize new things. And the reason they were able to do that was that they’ve had more experiences or they have thought more about their experiences than other people.
When you first start off trying to solve a problem, the first solutions you come up with are very complex, and most people stop there. But if you keep going, and live with the problem and peel more layers of the onion off, you can often times arrive at some very elegant and simple solutions.
‘People think focus means not saying yes to the thing you’ve got to focus on. But that’s not what it means at all. It means saying no to the hundred other good ideas that there are. You have to pick carefully. I’m actually as proud of the things we haven’t done as the things I have done. Innovation is saying no to a thousand things.’
Steve Jobs