Steve Job

1."There's an old Wayne Gretzky quote that I love. 'I skate to where the puck is going to be, not where it has been.' And we've always tried to do that at Apple. Since the very very beginning. And we always will.""
2."My model for business is The Beatles: They were four guys that kept each other's negative tendencies in check; they balanced each other. And the total was greater than the sum of the parts. Great things in business are not done by one person, they are done by a team of people."
3."Team, it turned out that Michael Dell wasn't perfect at predicting the future. Based on today's stock market close, Apple is worth more than Dell. Stocks go up and down, and things may be different tomorrow, but I thought it was worth a moment of reflection today."
4."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."
5."It's really hard to design products by focus groups. A lot of times, people don't know what they want until you show it to them."
6." It's not about money. It's about the people you have, how you're led, and how much you get it. "
7."We think basically you watch television to turn your brain off, and you work on your computer when you want to turn your brain on."
8."I think if you do something and it turns out pretty good, then you should go do something else wonderful, not dwell on it for too long. Just figure out what's next."
9."I wish developing great products was as easy as writing a check."
10."I have looked in the mirror every morning and asked 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. "
11."I didn't see it then, but it turned out that getting fired from Apple was the best thing that could have ever happened to me."
12."Your time is limited, so don't waste it living someone else's life."
13."Remembering that I'll be dead soon is the most important tool I've ever encountered to help me make the big choices in life. Because almost everything — all external expectations, all pride, all fear of embarrassment or failure — these things just fall away in the face of death, leaving only what is truly important. Remembering that you are going to die is the best way I know to avoid the trap of thinking you have something to lose. You are already naked. There is no reason not to follow your heart. "
14."Again, you can't connect the dots looking forward; you can only connect them looking backwards. So you have to trust that the dots will somehow connect in your future. You have to trust in something — your gut, destiny, life, karma, whatever. This approach has never let me down, and it has made all the difference in my life."
15."Stay hungry. Stay foolish"
http://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Steve_Jobs
http://homepage.mac.com/steve/Resume.html

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GDP 2 NDP 2 NI 2 PI 2 DI

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/GDP
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Net_Domestic_Product
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/National_income
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Total_personal_income
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Disposable_income

Inflation is a rise in the general level of prices (Consumer Price Index). The CPI reports the price of a "market basket" of some 300 consumer goods and services...

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Inflation
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Basket_of_goods
http://www.ehow.com/how_2063457_measure-inflation.html

Idleness means loss of skills, loss of self-respect,.....

You named it

Hofberger, the Chevy salesmand in Tomcat, Va., a suburb of Washington, called up Littleton , of Littleton Menswear & Haberdashery, and said, "Good news, the new [Chevrolets] have just come in and I've put one aside for you and your wife."
Littleton said, "I can't, Hofberger, my wife and I are getting a divorce." " I'm sorry," Littleton said, "but I can't afford a new car this year. After I settle with my wite, I'll be lucky to buy a bicycle."
Hofberger hung up. His phone rang a few minutes later. "This is Bedcheck the painter," the voice on the other end said. " When do you want us to start painting your house?"
"I changed my mind,"said Hofberger, "I'm not going to paint the house."
But I ordered the paint, "Bedcheck said. "Why did you change your mind?"
" Because Littleton is getting a divorce and he can't afford a new car."
That evening when Bedcheck came home his wife said, "The new color television set arrived from Gladstone's TV Shop."
"Take it back, " Bedcheck told his wife.
"Why?" she demanded.
"Because Hofverger isn't going to have his house painted now that the Littletons are getting a divorce."
The new day Mrs. Bedcheck dragged the TV set in its carton back to Gladtone. "We don't want it."
Gladstone's face dropped. He immediately called his travel agent, Sandtorm. "You know that trip you had scheduled for me to the Virgin Islands?"
"Right, the tickets are all written up"

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