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AKA: | Walter Isaacson |
Birthday: | May 20, 1952 |
Educated At: | Isidore Newman School, Pembroke College, Harvard University, University Of Oxford |
Nationality: | United States Of America |
Occupations: | Journalist, Biographer, Writer |
Total quotes: 9
Walter Isaacson
BirthnameAKA: Walter Isaacson
Birthday: May 20, 1952
Educated At: Isidore Newman School, Pembroke College, Harvard University, University Of Oxford
Nationality: United States Of America
Occupations: Journalist, Biographer, Writer
Total quotes: 9
“Once again, Jobs's reality distortion field pushed them to do what they had thought impossible.”
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Reality Distortion
“A lot of people distort reality, of course. When Jobs did so, it was often a tactic for accomplishing something.”
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Reality Distortion
“Raskin had little patience for Jobs's belief that you could distort reality if you had enough passion for your product.”
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Reality Distortion
“Steve Jobs hires Paul Rand to design NEXT's logo and requests options: I will solve your problem and you will pay me. You can use what I produce or not, but I will not do options and either way you will pay me.”
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Life
“[Jobs'] reality distortion is when he has an illogical vision of the future... you realize that it can't be true but he somehow makes it true.”
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Reality Distortion
“'The best thing to ever happen to Steve is when we fired him, told him to get lost,' Arthur Rock later said. The theory, shared by many, is that tough love made him wiser and more mature. But it's not that simple. At the company he founded after being ousted from Apple, Jobs was able to indulge all of his instincts, both good and bad. He was unbound. The result was a series of spectacular products that were dazzling market flips. This was the true learning experience. What prepared him for the great success he would have in Act III was not his ouster from his Act I at Apple but his brilliant failures in Act II.”
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Failure
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