Zitate und Sprüche von Tim Cook

You want to be the pebble in the pond that creates the ripple for change.

We're very simple people at Apple. We focus on making the world's best products and enriching people's lives.

Let your joy be in your journey - not in some distant goal.

Anything can change, because the smartphone revolution is still in the early stages.

Our goal has never been to make the most. It's always been to make the best.

I'm excited about Augmented Reality because unlike Virtual Reality, which closes the world out, AR allows individuals to be present in the world but hopefully allows an improvement on what's happening presently.

Stay hungry, stay foolish.

Great things in business are never done by one person. They're done by a team of people.

Innovation distinguishes between a leader and a follower.

The problem is... netbooks aren't better in anything!

Creativity is about connecting things.

Don't Waste Your Time Living Someone Else's Life.

Being the richest man in the cemetery doesn't matter to me. Going to bed at night saying we've done something wonderful, that's what matters to me.

Design is not just what it looks like. Design is how it works.

Remembering that you are going to die, is the best way I know to avoid the traps, of thinking you have something to lose.

I ask myself: 'If today were the last day of my life, would I want to do what I am about to do today?' And whenever the answer has been 'No', for too many days in a row, I know I need to change something.

If you haven't found it yet, keep looking. Don't settle. As with all matters of the heart, you'll know when you find it. And, like any great relationship, it just gets better and better as the years roll on.

The biggest difference from Hawaii and Alabama would probably be there's no beaches. But other than that, the people are very nice.

How long does it take to get from Louisiana to Alabama?
One Mississippi.

Leroy Brown: "Joe! That's your grandniece, that's kin to you!"
Joe Simmons: "Grandniece? What the hell is a grandniece? I'm from Alabama. After daughter, it don't damn matter."

Alabamians don't tell you to wait before rushing a decision… they say "don't count your chickens before they hatch."

Alabama girls - the kind of girl you can take home to meet your mom, but can outdrink your dad.

Home is where the heart is and the heart is in Alabama.

The only traffic I had to deal with in Alabama was a tractor.

Gerald Broflovski: "Well that does it, I'm going to the police!"
Stan: "For what?"
Gerald Broflovski: "To find out where Apple is keeping my son."
Stan: "Dude, when the police want to know where somebody is, they ask Apple!"

Jacob: "Are you Steve Jobs?"
Cal: "What?"
Jacob: "Are you the billionaire owner of Apple Computers?"
Cal: "No."
Jacob: "Oh, OK. In that case, you've got no right to wear New Balance sneakers, ever."

I don't have a phone. I refuse to be a slave to technology.

Lord, give me coffee to change the things I can and virtual reality to accept the things I can't.

The Metaverse is being made by Microsoft and Facebook, so you know it's gonna be boring as sh-t.

If one does not often make mistakes, then one has not challenged oneself enough.

It's not technology that makes history, but the people who invented it.

I think we can all agree Elon isn't serious and it's time to move on. I offered a real date. Dana White offered to make this a legit competition for charity. Elon won't confirm a date, then says he needs surgery, and now asks to do a practice round in my backyard instead. If Elon ever gets serious about a real date and official event, he knows how to reach me. Otherwise, time to move on. I'm going to focus on competing with people who take the sport seriously.

Virtual reality was once the dream of science fiction. But the internet was also once a dream, and so were computers and smartphones. The future is coming.

Starbucks has a role and a meaningful relationship with people that is not only about the coffee.

In life, you can blame a lot of people and you can wallow in self-pity, or you can pick yourself up and say, 'Listen, I have to be responsible for myself.'

You'll learn more about a road by traveling it than by consulting all the maps in the world.

The more I help others to succeed, the more I succeed.

Facebook is manipulating the public almost everywhere on Earth. That is why they won't open source their algorithm.

ChatGPT is scary good. We are not far from dangerously strong AI.

We really do believe that we can improve the world, one song at a time.

I'm not an inventor. I just want to make things better.

Most entrepreneurial ideas will sound crazy, stupid and uneconomic, and then they'll turn out to be right.

If the Starbucks secret is a smile when you get your latte... ours is that the Web site adapts to the individual's taste.

Decisiveness is the one word that makes a good manager.

The speed of the boss is the speed of the team.