the people who are crazy enough to think they can change the world are the ones who do.
Interpretation
Believing in one's ability to create change is the first step toward making it happen.
This quote by Steve Jobs emphasizes the importance of having a bold vision and the willingness to take risks in order to create significant change in the world. It suggests that only those who dare to think differently and believe in their potential can lead transformative actions that positively impact society.
In practice
This quote can be used in a motivational speech to inspire young entrepreneurs.
Design is the fundamental soul of a man-made creation that ends up expressing itself in successive outer layers of the product or service. The iMac is not just the color or translucence or the shape of the shell. The essence of the iMac is to be the finest possible consumer computer in which each element plays together.
It is piracy, not overt online music stores, which is our main competitor.
The people who are doing the work are the moving force behind the Macintosh. My job is to create a space for them, to clear out the rest of the organization and keep it at bay.
Remembering that I'll be dead soon is the most important tool I've ever encountered to help me make the big choices in life. Because almost everything - all external expectations, all pride, all fear of embarrassment or failure - these things just fall away in the face of death, leaving only what is truly important.
Innovation has nothing to do with how many R&D dollars you have. When Apple came up with the Mac, IBM was spending at least 100 times more on R&D. It's not about money. It's about the people you have, how you're led, and how much you get it.
For the past 33 years, I have looked in the mirror every morning and asked myself: 'If today were the last day of my life, would I want to do what I am about to do today?' And whenever the answer has been 'No' for too many days in a row, I know I need to change something.
Myself and the co-founders of the Black Lives Matter movement have been called terrorists, but in truth, we are loving women whose life experiences have led us to seek justice for those victimized by the powerful.
We learn to be racist, therefore we can learn not to be racist. Racism is not genetical. It has everything to do with power.
Now we're in the midst of not just advocating for change, not just calling for change - we're doing the grinding, sometimes frustrating work of delivering change - inch by inch, day by day.
Carrying the past in to the present, we program the future to continue the past. Letting go the past in the present, we free the future to be something else.
In this new world economy, national boundaries are increasingly becoming obsolete.
Welcome all experiences. You never know which one is gong to turn everything on.
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