ambition Quotes

I was a kind of hyper-intense person in my twenties and very impatient.

The U.S. has strategic and economic interests in Southeast Asia that must be secured. Holding Indochina is essential to securing these interests. Therefore, we must hold Indochina.

When I was about thirteen, the library was going to get 'Calculus for the Practical Man.' By this time I knew, from reading the encyclopedia, that calculus was an important and interesting subject, and I ought to learn it.

Innovation distinguishes between a leader and a follower.

I've always wanted to own and control the primary technology in everything we do.

I want to put a ding in the universe.

Our goal is to make the best devices in the world, not to be the biggest.

My biological mother later found out that my mother had never graduated from college and that my father had never graduated from high school. She refused to sign the final adoption papers. She only relented a few months later when my parents promised that I would someday go to college.

And no, we don't know where it will lead. We just know there's something much bigger than any of us here.

What we want to do is make a leapfrog product that is way smarter than any mobile device has ever been, and super-easy to use. This is what iPhone is. OK? So, we're going to reinvent the phone.