'60 Minutes': Steve Jobs Video
'60 Minutes': Steve Jobs Video Transcript
>> We're going to make some history together today. [ Cheering ]
>> I was basically fired from Apple when I was 30 and was invited to come back 12 years later. So that was difficult when it happened but may be the best thing that ever happened to me. There wouldn't be a Pixar if that hadn't of happened. You know, I still believe that the computer business is in its infancy: that there's a tremendous amount more -- tremendous amount of innovation that's going to be coming out over the next 5 to 10 years. You know, someone long ago told me "Manage the top line, which is your strategy and your people and your products and the bottom line will follow." My model for business is the Beatles. They were 4 guys who kept each other's kind of negative tendencies in check. They balanced each other and the sum was greater than the -- the total was greater than the sum of the parts. And that's how I see business. You know great things in business are never done by one person. They're done by a team of people. [ Ticking sounds ]
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