Walter Isaacson Quotes


Smart people are a dime a dozen. What matters is the ability to think different... to think out of the box. Walter Isaacson Ability 400
I think it is valuable and should be valued by its consumers. Charging for content forces discipline on journalists: they must produce things that people actually value. Walter Isaacson Charging 197
Terrorism is a horrible thing that is the great threat to civilization on our planet. Walter Isaacson Civilization 184
What Einstein was able to do was - to use a cliche - think out of the box. Walter Isaacson Able 167
But the point is to get a whole new generation of people and people in general more re-engaged in news, and this has happened a lot since September 11th of course. Walter Isaacson Course 152
I visited Jobs for the last time in his Palo Alto, Calif., home. He had moved to a downstairs bedroom because he was too weak to go up and down stairs. He was curled up in some pain, but his mind was still sharp and his humor vibrant. Walter Isaacson Humor 109
I think that Benjamin Franklin felt very strongly in foreign policy in this world, that you needed to at least show some humility, especially when you were strong. Walter Isaacson Benjamin 108
I wonder now how tough you have to be to get big things done. Walter Isaacson Big 106
We have to compete in a universe of 200 networks, so we have to carve out our own niche, and to me, that niche is just basic shoe-leather journalism with some good journalists at the helm you can trust as presenters. Walter Isaacson Trust 96
I have a strong emotional respect for Steve. Walter Isaacson Emotional 90
You can't have a sustainable US economy without a great education system. Teach students to do the job right. You don't have an innovative economy unless you have a great education. Walter Isaacson Education 80
I think that's exactly what Silicon Valley was all about in those days. Let's do a startup in our parents' garage and try to create a business. Walter Isaacson Business 77
Polite and velvety leaders, who take care to avoid bruising others, are generally not as effective at forcing change. Walter Isaacson Change 73
I think right now we need to look back at the founding values of our country. Rise above partisanship, be less bitter when it comes to important matters that have to be solved. Walter Isaacson Bitter 63
Yeah, I think that his great creation was not any one product but a company in which creativity was connected to great engineering. And that will survive at least while the current people who trained under Steve are there. Walter Isaacson Company 59
Especially right after 9/11. Especially when the war in Afghanistan is going on. There was a real sense that you don't get that critical of a government that's leading us in war time. Walter Isaacson Government 53
Jobs has within him sort of this conflict, but he doesn't quite see it as a conflict between being hippie-ish and anti-materialistic but wanting to sell things like Wozniak's board. Wanting to create a business. Walter Isaacson Business 49
I do think it's important, if you're going to be very creative, to be a seeker. Walter Isaacson Job 39
I've asked Jobs why he didn't get an operation then and he said, ‘I didn't want my body to be opened. I didn't want to be violated in that way.' Walter Isaacson Uncategorized 37
In the age of the internet when everybody's a pundit, we're still gonna need somebody there to go talk to the colonels, to be on the ground in Baghdad and stuff and that's very expensive. Walter Isaacson Age 36
Picasso had a saying good artists copy great artists steal and we have always been shameless about stealing great ideas. Walter Isaacson Artists 33
When there are multiple versions of a story, you really have three ways to go. You can pick the most sensational version. You can try to balance things in your gut to get to what you think is the honest truth. Or you can err on the side of kindness. Walter Isaacson Balance 32
Simply handing over your iPod to a friend your blind date or the total stranger sitting next to you on the plane opens you up like a book. Steven Levy Walter Isaacson Music 29
I think when you're looking for people to interview, you want to make it fair and honest. You're not just bringing people on so you can beat them up or, you know, make fools out of them or something. Walter Isaacson Uncategorized 28
for Steve less is always more simpler is always better. Therefore if you can build a glass box with fewer elements its better its simpler and its at the forefront of technology. Thats where Steve likes to be in both his products and his stores. Walter Isaacson Design 27
One of the great pressures we're facing in journalism now is it's a lot cheaper to hire thumb suckers and pundits and have talk shows on the air than actually have bureaus and reporters. Walter Isaacson Uncategorized 24
I think when money starts to corrupt journalism, it undermines the journalism, and it undermines the credibility of the product, and you end up not succeeding. Walter Isaacson Money 23
What are the five products you want to focus on Get rid of the rest because theyre dragging you down. Theyre turning you into Microsoft. Theyre causing you to turn out products that are adequate but not great. Walter Isaacson Focus 22

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