Showing posts with label steve jobs. Show all posts
Showing posts with label steve jobs. Show all posts

Sunday, 9 October 2011

Steve Jobs Quotes

Steve Jobs Quotes: As the sad news of the death of Apple Inc. /quotes/zigman/68270/quotes/nls/aapl AAPL -0.23%  co-founder struck Silicon Valley and the global business world like a lightning bolt, many were remembering encounters with the man who has been described variously as the Thomas Edison of his generation, suffering no fools as he revolutionized three industries. See news of the death of Steve Jobs here. Jobs was famous for his ability to convey enthusiasm for Apple products, both on stage and in interviews with the press, in an easy-to-understand manner, with simple terms and catch phrases like “awesome,” “insanely great” and...
 

Michael Lewis

Michael Lewis: America needs to hit bottom “like an addict” to rebound from its economic woes, according to Michael Lewis, author of Moneyball, The Big Short and other books that have been optioned for movies. “At every level of the society we have been willing to basically sacrifice our long term interests for short term interests,” Lewis told Bloomberg TV’s Tom Keene in an interview Wednesday. “It’s not sustainable and I think what happens is we have to hit bottom first, like an addict.” And where is the bottom, according to Lewis, the darling of Wall Street traders, politicians and writers alike? “It’s some level of unemployment, slow...