And what I'm interested in is investing in people.

Steve Jobs is a national treasure. He is so visionary, and so bright. I had to fire him, though.

You know, a lot of people are just interested in, in building a company so they can make money and get out.

Killing Intel, I, I just had to resign from the Apple Board.

Which, the first meeting with anybody is, you know, everybody is on their best behavior. It's only after you get to know them for a while that you figure out.

The cost of a semiconductor chip fabrication plant doubles every four years.

So I, I knew something in a business sense about semiconductors and I appreciated their possibilities.

People come in with business plans and, I mean I know that no one is going to meet everything they say in a business plan but you got to have something to, to guide towards.

This country's going to have a revolution if something doesn't happen the haves and have - nots.

Well, I was born and raised in Rochester, New York.

My father was an immigrant from Russia and my mother was first generation.

Someone who see's the invisible can do the impossible

I just say what I think is the funniest thing I could say. I'm not trying to make headlines. I'm just trying to say the stuff that I think is funny and will make people laugh.

What I have always wanted for myself is much more primitive. It is probably nothing more than the affection of the people with whom I am in contact, and their good opinion of me.

I know exercise is important, but I hate it!

The higher the classification of secrecy, the quicker you will report it.

He said not 'Thou shalt not be tempested, thou shalt not be travailed, thou shalt not be dis-eased'; but he said, 'Thou shalt not be overcome.

Remember always, you are the gift!

Idle minds are the devil's research-and-development department.

You don't rehearse jazz to death to get the camera angles.

Although none of the rules for becoming more alive is valid, it is healthy to keep on formulating them.