{"id":206,"date":"2004-10-13T04:03:26","date_gmt":"2004-10-13T08:03:26","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/control-h.org\/?p=206"},"modified":"2004-10-13T04:03:26","modified_gmt":"2004-10-13T08:03:26","slug":"steve-jobs-fucking-gets-it","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/control-h.org\/index.php\/2004\/10\/13\/steve-jobs-fucking-gets-it\/","title":{"rendered":"Steve Jobs fucking gets it"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>From an <a href=\"http:\/\/www.businessweek.com\/bwdaily\/dnflash\/oct2004\/nf20041012_4018_db083.htm\">interview<\/a> in <i>Business Week<\/i>.<br \/>\n<i>[O]ur primary goal here is to make the world&#8217;s best PCs &#8212; not to be the biggest or the richest.<br \/>\nWe have a second goal, which is to always make a profit &#8212; both to make some money but also so we can keep making those great products. For a time, those goals got flipped at Apple, and that subtle change made all the difference.<\/i><br \/>\nMy dad, who teaches graduate courses in Business Administration, and I disagree about this all the time.  If you have no product, or you don&#8217;t give a damn about making a <i>great<\/i> product, you will never make a profit.  And when profit is your only motive, everything else suffers.  Make a good product, treat your customers well, treat your employees well, <i>then<\/i> worry about how much you&#8217;re going to give back to your shareholders.<br \/>\nThis is also why I think fewer companies should be publicly-traded.  When you&#8217;re bound by the whims of Wall Street, it&#8217;s very, very difficult to keep sight of what&#8217;s important.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>From an interview in Business Week. [O]ur primary goal here is to make the world&#8217;s best PCs &#8212; not to be the biggest or the richest. We have a second goal, which is to always make a profit &#8212; both to make some money but also so we can keep making those great products. For [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-206","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-general"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/control-h.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/206","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/control-h.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/control-h.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/control-h.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/control-h.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=206"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/control-h.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/206\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/control-h.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=206"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/control-h.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=206"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/control-h.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=206"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}