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Tim Cook

Tim Cook

Birthname

AKA Tim Cook

Birthday November 1, 1960

Birthplace Mobile, Alabama, United States

Educated At Duke University, Fuqua School Of Business, Auburn University, Robertsdale High School

Nationality United States Of America

Occupations Businessperson

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The world needs a strong U.S. and China economy for the world economy to be strong.

— Tim Cook, Apple CEO Tim Cook speaks with CNBC's Jim Cramer: Full transcript

World Economy US Economy China

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When I think of civil liberties I think of the founding principles of the country. The freedoms that are in the First Amendment. But also the fundamental right to privacy.

— Tim Cook, Here's the Full Transcript of TIME’s Interview With Apple CEO Tim Cook

First Amendment Civil Liberties Privacy

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I want the customer to be happy. We work for them. And so the important thing is that they’re happy.

— Tim Cook, Apple CEO Tim Cook speaks with CNBC's Jim Cramer: Full transcript

Customer Customer Satisfaction

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We run Apple for the long term so it has always struck me as bizarre that there is a fixation on how many units are sold in a 90-day period. We don’t run the company for people who want to make a quick buck.

— Tim Cook, Inner voice saying 'go west' convinced Tim Cook to join Apple | Cult of Mac

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I think some of the top people predict that the next big war is fought on cyber security.

— Tim Cook, Here's the Full Transcript of TIME’s Interview With Apple CEO Tim Cook

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The narrative that some companies will try to get you to believe is: ‘I’ve got to take all of your data to make my service better.’ Well, don’t believe them. Whoever’s telling you that—it’s a bunch of bonk.

— Tim Cook, Tim Cook talks privacy and banning Alex Jones in Vice News Tonight interview

data farming Privacy

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We’re not going to traffic in your personal life. Privacy to us is a human right, a civil liberty.

— Tim Cook, Apple's Tim Cook rebukes Zuckerberg over Facebook's business model

Privacy Media Cliff Notes Monetizing Personal Data

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I think the reality is you can see that countries in the world that isolate themselves, it’s not good for their people.

— Tim Cook, Apple CEO Tim Cook Defends Globalization in China Speech

Globalization Isolationism

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Platforms and algorithms that promised to improve our lives can actually magnify our worst human tendencies.

— Tim Cook, Tim Cook: Personal data collection is being 'weaponized against us with military efficiency'

Advertising Social Media Is Bad Internet

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I don’t have a kid, but I have a nephew that I put some boundaries on. There are some things that I won’t allow; I don’t want them on a social network.

— Tim Cook, Why Apple’s Tim Cook doesn’t want his nephew to use social networks

Social Media Against Social Media Quote of the Moment

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This is America. And you can say what you want.

— Tim Cook, Apple CEO Tim Cook speaks with CNBC's Jim Cramer: Full transcript

America Free Speech

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These are transformative times. Around the world, from Copenhagen to Chennai to Cupertino, new technologies are driving breakthroughs in humanity’s greatest common projects. From preventing and fighting disease…To curbing the effects of climate change…To ensuring every person has access to information and economic opportunity.

— Tim Cook, Watch Tim Cook’s speech about why privacy, dignity and respect are key tech issues

Transformative Copenhagen Cupdertino Technology Climate Change

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Generally speaking, I am not a big fan of regulation. I’m a big believer in the free market. But we have to admit when the free market is not working. And it hasn't worked here. I think it's inevitable that there will be some level of regulation. I think the Congress and the administration at some point will pass something.

— Tim Cook, Apple CEO Tim Cook calls new regulations "inevitable"

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I was public because I started to receive stories from kids who read online that I was gay. They were going through being bullied, feeling like their family didn’t love them, being pushed out of their home, very close to suicide. Just things that really pulled on my heart. I started saying, ‘You know, I am a private person. I’ve kept me to my small circle.’ and I started thinking, ‘That is a selfish thing to do at this point. I need to be bigger than that, I need to do something for them and show them that you can be gay and go on and some big jobs in life.’

— Tim Cook, Tim Cook touches on his personal life, privacy values, and more in new interview

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...the world is in greater peril from those who tolerate or encourage evil than from those who actually commit it.

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People who want the world to be a better place need to accept the painful truth that ‘Truth’ can be quite irrelevant if people do not act upon it.

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The production of too many useful things results in too many useless people.

— Karl Marx , The Economic and Philosophic Manuscripts of 1844 and the Communist Manifesto

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I thought becoming myself was improving each part piece by piece. But it was finding a hidden wholeness seeing the fractures as the design.

— Brianna Wiest, via twitter.com

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