Wherever smart people work, doors are unlocked.
Steve WozniakRead
Every dream I've ever had in life has come true ten times over.
Interpretation
Achievements often exceed initial aspirations.
Steve Wozniak's quote reflects the idea that pursuing one's dreams can lead to unexpected and significantly greater successes than originally anticipated. It highlights the importance of ambition and the potential for dreams to evolve and manifest in ways that surpass our expectations.
In practice
In a motivational speech at a school assembly.
Wherever smart people work, doors are unlocked.
Our first computers were born not out of greed or ego, but in the revolutionary spirit of helping common people rise above the most powerful institutions.
At our computer club, we talked about it being a revolution. Computers were going to belong to everyone, and give us power, and free us from the people who owned computers and all that stuff.
My goal wasn't to make a ton of money. It was to build good computers. I only started the company when I realized I could be an engineer forever.
If I designed a computer with 200 chips, I tried to design it with 150. And then I would try to design it with 100. I just tried to find every trick I could in life to design things real tiny
My dream was actually just to have a computer some day. If I'd imagined that it meant starting a company to sell them, I probably would have avoided the whole thing.
There is a kind of success that is indistinguishable from panic.
I think the most important thing is to achieve what you set out to achieve. Just being a CEO in itself is not success. I would not relate success to a title or a position.
Values cannot be speedily forgotten if it is inconvenient or commercially expedient. Values have to have meaning and longevity; otherwise they are valueless. You cannot embrace innovation up to a point or only sometimes. Branding demands commitment; commitment to continual re-invention; striking cords with people to stir their emotions; and commitment to imagination. It is easy to be cynical about such things, much harder to be successful.
A star can win any game; a team can win every game.
If you want to be successful, find someone who has achieved the results you want and copy what they do and you'll achieve the same results.
I hated singing. I wanted to be an actress. But I don't think I'd have made it any other way.
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