We do a lot of things for reasons besides profit motive. We want to leave the world better … - Tim Cook - Quotesmemo.com

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I mean, we have to read books or we'll make mistakes. If we read stories of how other people lived, we can figure out better ways to live. I mean we can look at other people's lives and not make the same mistakes they made. Or we can, like, use their examples as models for ourselves.

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Tim Cook

We do a lot of things for reasons besides profit motive. We want to leave the world better than we found it.

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We are the most focused company that I know of or have read of or have any knowledge of. We say no to good ideas every day. We say no to great ideas in order to keep the amount of things we focus on very small in number, so that we can put enormous energy behind the ones we do choose. . . . . It's not just saying yes to the right products, it's saying no to many products that are good ideas, but just not nearly as good as other ones.

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So let me be clear: I'm proud to be gay, and I consider being gay among the greatest gifts God has given me.

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You can focus on things that are barriers or you can focus on scaling the wall or redefining the problem.

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Creativity is people who care enough to keep thinking about something until they find the simplest way to do it.

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We believe in saying no to thousands of projects so that we can really focus on the few that are truly important and meaningful to us.

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I mean, we have to read books or we'll make mistakes. If we read stories of how other people lived, we can figure out better ways to live. I mean we can look at other people's lives and not make the same mistakes they made. Or we can, like, use their examples as models for ourselves.

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