"Steve Jobs is a national treasure. He is so visionary, and so bright. I had to fire him, though."
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"You know, a lot of people are just interested in, in building a company so they can make money and get out."
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"People come in with business plans and, I mean I know that no one is going to meet everything they say in a business plan but you got to have something to, to guide towards."
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"So I, I knew something in a business sense about semiconductors and I appreciated their possibilities."
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"The cost of a semiconductor chip fabrication plant doubles every four years."
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"Which, the first meeting with anybody is, you know, everybody is on their best behavior. It's only after you get to know them for a while that you figure out."
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"Killing Intel, I, I just had to resign from the Apple Board."
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"Well, I was born and raised in Rochester, New York."
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"This country's going to have a revolution if something doesn't happen the haves and have - nots."
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"I mean I wasn't a founder in the sense that I contributed anything scientifically but in the sense that I signed the corporation papers and, and owned founder's stock."
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"My father was an immigrant from Russia and my mother was first generation."
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"And what I'm interested in is investing in people."
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