My intent is simply to know my material so well that I'm very comfortable with it. Confidence, not perfection, is the goal.

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Steven Paul Jobs (February 24, 1955 – October 5, 2011) was an American businessman, inventor, and investor. A pioneer of the personal computer revolution of the 1970s and 1980s, Jobs co-founded Apple Inc. with his early business partner Steve Wozniak as Apple Computer Company in 1976. After the company's board...

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Sometimes life is going to hit you in the head with a brick. Don't lose faith.

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The hardest thing when you think about focusing. You think focusing is about saying "Yes." No. Focusing is about saying "No." And when you say "No," you piss off people.

Innovation distinguishes between a leader and a follower.

So we went to Atari and said, 'Hey, we've got this amazing thing, even built with some of your parts, and what do you think about funding us? Or we'll give it to you. We just want to do it. Pay our salary, we'll come work for you.' And they said, 'No.' So then we went to Hewlett-Packard, and they said, 'Hey, we don't need you. You haven't got through college yet.

You can't just ask customers what they want and then try to give that to them. By the time you get it built, they'll want something new.

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Self-confidence is the first requisite to great undertakings.

—Sophia Loren

You can be confident and secure and know that you do a good job at what you do. But you don't know to be arrogant about it.

—Shakti Gawain

You have to have confidence in your ability, and then be tough enough to follow through.

—Samuel Johnson

If I have lost confidence in myself, I have the universe against me.

—Ruben Studdard

It seems to me that people have vast potential. Most people can do extraordinary things if they have the confidence or take the risks. Yet most people don't. They sit in front of the telly and treat life as if it goes on forever.

—Rosalynn Carter

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