What are the five products you want to focus on? Get rid of the rest, because theyโre dragging you down. Theyโre turning you into Microsoft. Theyโre causing you to turn out products that are adequate but not great.
Walter IsaacsonThe older I get, the more I see how much motivations matter. The Zune was crappy because the people at Microsoft donโt really love music or art the way we do. We won because we personally love music.
Walter IsaacsonI think America is really well-positioned, because we do train people to be creative and sometimes resist authority, which helps in being an innovator. I think you're going to see for the next phase of the revolution all sorts of wonderful ways of connecting art and literature and journalism into new forms of digital expression.
Walter IsaacsonMainly, the reason people who didn't succeed had trouble because they had trouble forming teams. They didn't know how to collaborate.
Walter IsaacsonHe had the attitude that he could do anything, and therefore so can you. He put his life in my hands. So that made me do something I didn't think I could do.... If you trust him, you can do things. If he's decided that something should happen, then he's just going to make it happen. (Elizabeth Holmes)
Walter Isaacson