30 Walter Isaacson Quotes (Author Of Steve Jobs)

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Walter Isaacson is the author of the biography of Steve Jobs. The biography was the result of Isaacson interviewing many of Jobs’ closest friends and relatives. The book covers Jobs’ childhood, school life, and his time at Apple. Apart from Steve Jobs, Walter also covered other important people in the business world including Bill Gates, Mark Zuckerberg, and Henry Ford.

When Steve Jobs returned to Apple in 1996, I gave him a tour of the main conference room. It was a little before 1 pm. He came out of the conference room, looked at his watch and announced, “I’d better get back to Cupertino. I was supposed to be there at 11:30.” And he was gone.

30 Walter Isaacson Quotes

You are what you do. In the first 30 years of your life, you make your habits. For the last 30 years of your life, your habits make you.

It takes control and confidence to succeed, you know who you are and that others know you too.

President Obama said that when he saw President Chavez, his first thought was “He’s not going to be able to do anything without the Cubans. ” So Obama decided that the best way to handle things was to wait for the Venezuelan military to fail, then the Cubans would come in and he would be free to say what he wanted to say.

In a world where people have to be forced to do things, you will not be able to accomplish anything. And, if you are not willing to do things, then you will not be able to accomplish anything.

I have always thought that I was an artist who, in order to really excel, had to get out of here and experience the world. I would never say this, of course. It is not very professional. Also I am not supposed to say it, because I am not supposed to do this.

There are some common everyday things that nobody takes notice and nobody finds out about. The fact that people don’t understand it is a sign of how amazing it is. The more things we learn the more amazing this universe is.

Apple’s co-founder Steve Jobs was always honest when he was talking to customers and critics. His brutally honest approach was the reason why he is remembered for his products.

Reality is odd. We all are. And it’s a bit ironic that reality has caught up with satire.

The author was a student who eventually decided to attend his first year of college to study philosophy. During his free time he wrote a book that became a bestseller. His book helped start a revolution in how one thought about knowledge.

10th of 30 Walter Isaacson Quotes

If we don’t take action, we will lose the moment. When we don’t take action, we will lose the moment. But if we take action, we will lose the reaction. The reaction to taking action is the moment. The moment to take action is the reaction.

I think that change happens when you work hard at your work and find motivation to do your best. If you spend all your time sitting back and complaining about how the world is, then you won’t be able to change it.

One should not focus on things that make us angry, sad, or depressed. We need to take these things on ourselves and get rid of them.

Remembering yourself is remembering other people, and being reminded of the people you consider your heroes is the first step to being a great leader.

When it comes to life, nothing is more important than being true to yourself. When it comes to love, nothing is more important than being true to your heart.

Walter Isaacson says that the most common reason why technology companies become less innovative after a certain time is because the company becomes so successful that they have to focus on profits. The second reason is that the company becomes too successful to keep innovating.

I think an artist is someone who is always looking back too much. The only true form of growth is to constantly look forward, to change yourself, to be more than you are, to leave your own imprint on the world.

The people who invented the new century were pot-smoking hippies from the West Coast like Steve, because they saw differently.

This quote is something of a cliche. Even though I do not feel that products like PowerPoint and Excel are adequate, they are still better than a lot of Microsoft products. So this is something I’m not sure if it’s very helpful.

Even if you don’t need PowerPoint, there is still value in using this tool. Presentations are often used as a means to communicate information in a more organized, concise, and easy-to-understand manner than would be otherwise possible. At the same time, PowerPoint doesn’t provide the flexibility to fit the communication to the appropriate audience. A good presenter will know what to include in a presentation and how to communicate the information in an eye-catching, engaging, and memorable way.

20th of 30 Walter Isaacson Quotes

The way he runs the company is the way it should be. It has high quality, a little more than the typical commercial product, and the end results are great. When you look at the iPhone, you do not know that much about what Apple did to build that product and you don’t know how the engineers and designers came up with the designs for that product.

I believe the most important innovations of the twenty-first century will be the intersection of biology and technology. A new era is starting, just like the digital one was when I was young.

I’d like to believe this phrase, but I find it very difficult to do so.

When Steve Jobs was present, reality was malleable. He could convince anyone of practically anything. It wore off when he was not around, but it made it hard to have realistic schedules.

Walter Isaacson had a great quote about this president. It’s not the first time we saw people like Trump distort the truth, and it certainly won’t be the last.

The company will not last unless you build on the idea of creating something you believe in. What do you believe in?

You should start a company with an idea that you have about a problem that you want to solve.

You can try to guess what the future would look like, but if your guess is wrong you are not going to succeed. If you don’t know where you are going, it’s easy to get lost.

It’s too hard to work on something you don’t care about.

Great artists like Picasso stole great ideas.

When Picasso was young, he stole great ideas from great artists.

We have always been shameless about stealing great ideas from those who have stolen them first.

26th of 30 Walter Isaacson Quotes

What matters is the emotional core of an idea. Everything else is just details.

The secret to the life of people with a great vision is to make sure that you’re focused on the future, even if nobody else is. It’s like the house of a great carpenter – nobody will know exactly how beautiful it is if nobody ever sees it.

There is no such thing as a “best product”. There are just products. There is no way to judge between them. They just are.

I agree, there is much truth to this. I wonder however if there is a difference between being chaotic and messy? I am a big fan of messy, but at the same time I find myself attracted to orderly and organized. I think that might be part of this dichotomy.

I want to be a discipline; the discipline is for me to practice what I want to do, and to have all those things as your disciplines. Your disciplines are your practices. If you are getting fit and working out, your disciplines are getting fit and working out. If you don’t have any, then you’ve got to get them.

Summary

I’m working on a new book about the mind, how it comes to understand itself, and why it seems to have so much trouble. Walter Isaacson is a great mind. I’m very excited.