Those Lessons That I Got

You Can't Be No. 1 Unless You Think Like No. 1. You Have To Appear Like No. 1.

I Was Recruited By Pepsi And Put Out In Pittsburgh, And I Worked In The Bottling Lines, And Then I Was Sent On To Phoenix, Arizona, Where I Also Drove Trucks And I Put Up Signs, Pepsi Signage, And I Was Then Sent On To Las Vegas For A Month Of Training, And Then I Finally Ended Up In Milwaukee. So I Got A Really Hands - On Introduction To The Soft-drink Industry. I Was So Appreciative Of The Fact That I Was Able To Not Only Learn A Business Through What I Learned At Business School, But I Was Able To Learn It With Hands-on Learning. I'm A Huge Believer In Hands-on Learning.

In The Industrial Age, The Ceo Sat On The Top Of The Hierarchy And Didn't Have To Listen To Anybody ... In The Information Age, You Have To Listen To The Ideas Of People Regardless Of Where They Are In The Organization.

Microsoft's Philosophy Is To Get It Out There And Fix It Later. Steve [jobs] Would Never Do That. He Doesn't Get Anything Out There Until It Is Perfected.

What Makes Steve [jobs'] Methodology Different From Everyone Else's Is That He Always Believed The Most Important Decisions You Make Are Not The Things You Do, But The Things You Decide Not To Do. He's A Minimalist.