A lot of people thought Steve Jobs was a CEO of Apple but he never was until he came back to Apple in 1997.
I really love Steve Martin and all the stuff he did in the ’70s. I think it’s really great.
I try to penetrate the lane like Steve Nash, pass like Jason Kidd, and handle the ball like Allen Iverson. Remember, I said ‘try to’.
The NCAA model is outdated. If Steve Serby’s a great player in high school, and an agent wants to represent you and wants to advance you money as a loan based on the fact that you’re gonna be a high draft choice, so be it.
With actors like Steve McQueen, Paul Newman and Harrison Ford, what made them such icons is that even in dramatic movies, their characters had a sense of humor.
My best advice came by examples. A supportive environment at home, school, and grad school. Support at the New York Institute of Technology, then George Lucas, Steve Jobs, and Bob Iger. The examples meant that I should support other people, even when things aren’t going well. It will pay off.
When clients come to my design agency and say ‘I want to be the Apple of this or that,’ we say ‘Okay, are you ready to be the Steve Jobs?’ Few are up to the task.
In August of 2011, Steve Jobs, the tech icon who disrupted a string of traditional industries, called me and told me he thought he’d figured out a way to revolutionize TV. He invited me to come see it at Apple in a few months, but he died just six weeks later, and that meeting never came to pass.
There are a lot of people that I think look very good – Bryan Ferry and Jude Law dress really well, Steve McQueen was cool, and all the James Bonds have been very dapper.
I had always loved comedy, and acted out Steve Martin and Bill Cosby albums with my sister for my parents on road trips and stuff, and I loved to laugh and make people laugh.
The launch of iPhone is very possibly bigger than the launch of the first Apple II or the first Mac. Steve Jobs’s genius is his ability to use technology to create products that define fundamental cultural shifts.
I watched Magic Johnson on tape. I didn’t have a chance to watch him live. I remember I was 12 or 13, watching games, going to the gym and trying to mimic what they do. Steve Nash, Jason Kidd, all those guys.
Having Steve Nash running your team makes you a lot smarter.
I didn’t care for Steve Austin because of his mouth. He was a very, very vulgar individual and anybody who is like that I can never be a fan of. So, any of his positives were overshadowed by the negatives.
You know what, Steve Jobs is real nice to me. He lets me be an employee and that’s one of the biggest honors of my life.
Steve Fossett and I would share a common belief that it is possible and good to challenge yourself to the extreme.
I met Harrison Ford at Barney’s Beanery. And I met Steve Martin at the bar at the Troubador. He said he wanted to be a stand-up comic. I thought that was the worst idea because he was so square, so Orange County.
One time, I was really close to Steve Martin. I was too afraid to actually go talk to him, but I’ll count that as meeting.
My acronym is WWSJD: What Would Steve Jobs Do?
It’s great working with Steve Carell and Jim Carrey. Those guys are really funny.
I don’t have the talent of Daniel Day-Lewis. I’m Steve Austin, so when I get to hang out and be who I am, and I live on set, it’s like a paid vacation, man.
For the very top earners, vision and inspiration are essential. You need those to become the next Steve Jobs, but perhaps not to be the highest paid dentist in Beverly Hills.
At Birmingham, I was a pain in the backside for my manager Steve Bruce when I found out Blackburn wanted to sign me and it was a chance to play for Mark Hughes, a player I had idolised when he wore the red shirt of Wales.
It had not yet been named Silicon Valley, but you had the defense industry, you had Hewlett-Packard. But you also had the counter-culture, the Bay Area. That entire brew came together in Steve Jobs.
I love that pre-mod jazz look of the late Fifties, the Steve McQueen style that influenced the British modernists.
Steve Carell is good. I like him. Who else? Here’s another depressing thing: animation has kind of taken over, too. You know, ‘Family Guy?’ I watch that because the guy is good.
Very early on, when I was in my twenties, Steve Jobs convinced me to quit college. He talked to me after I had spent about a year in Michigan studying the history of art.
When you have somebody out there that’s willing to work for the team first, that’s contagious. In Phoenix, I learned that from Steve Nash, Grant Hill, so many different guys. When you’re playing with somebody like Steve, like Grant, that just passes on to you.
I go back to when we met with the late Steve Jobs. He couldn’t understand why we didn’t put Wi-Fi in every cable set box. And I literally went home and said, ‘Tell me again – what’s Wi-Fi?’
Steve Jobs was rare: a C.E.O. who actually had a huge impact on his company’s fortunes. Contrary to corporate mythology, most C.E.O.s could be easily replaced, if not by your average Joe, then by your average executive vice-president. But Jobs genuinely earned the label of superstar.
I think Steve Jobs is a historic figure. He’s not only a historic figure in business, but really in America.
Steve Jobs’ ability to focus in on a few things that count, get people who get user interface right, and market things as revolutionary are amazing things.
I remember my oldest son, Steve, saying to me once, ‘I don’t ever remember seeing you with an apron on.’ And I thought, that’s right, honey, you did not. That was his concept of what a mother should be.
Everyone loved Steve Jobs and the idea of Steve Jobs. Like a lot of people, I loved a man I never knew.
I practice yoga at home to a TV show called ‘Inhale,’ taught by Steve Ross. I figured that if the people on the show could stretch that deep then I could too. I ended up pulling my hip flexor. But that’s how I met my husband. Paul was the physical therapist my coach called to meet with me after hours.
I was taught coming up in the Phillies organization to be seen and not heard by people like Pete Rose, my hero growing up, and players like Mike Schmidt and Steve Carlton and Manny Trillo.
Steve Jobs once asked me for some advice about retail, but I said, ‘I am not sure at all we are in the same business.’
I remember, in 1999, the first time I met Steve Cram, I didn’t know who he was. It was only later, on YouTube, I started watching Seb Coe, Ovett. So it’s nice to be recognised as one of the best guys in the world.
My interest in magic was kindled by Steve Martin, the comedian I’d gone to high school with.
It was reported that I said I wouldn’t, shouldn’t have gone to New York. No. I said I shouldn’t have left Steve Nash. It’s a little bit different on the meaning.
What Steve Nash and Chris Paul do is they kind of hide your weaknesses.
I used to be totally into Steve Vai and Joe Satriani and other shredders, and I tried to emulate what they did and really grow as a guitarist.
I think coaching Steve Nash is easy no matter if it’s a good or bad start.
My heart was bursting with pride the night I fought Steve Robinson in Wales, and I made the champion look like the challenger.
It seems obvious to say, but I really admire the creative sides of Steve Jobs.
It’s a dynamic of grief within any family, and I found, after we lost Steve, his dad just began distancing himself. And I think it’s a coping mechanism. I found it very confusing.
If you’d asked me then if I saw how big ‘The Steve Harvey Morning Show’ was going to be, I couldn’t tell you. But I knew I could reach people not as a character but as Steve Harvey, because although I tell jokes for a living, I’ve also lived, and I think I can relate to you more than you know.
Venture capitalists Justin Caldbeck of Binary Capital, Steve Jurvetson of DFJ, and Dave McClure of 500 Startups all left their firms following accusations of misconduct.
That was very flattering, meeting Steve Vai and hearing his stuff, because he was kind of a fan, even though we kind of dumbed down what he was doing and what people were doing in the ’80s. We weren’t doing solos; we were doing sounds and all this creepy, trippy stuff.
I grew up admiring Phil Mickelson. He loves competing, and he loves the fans’ support, similar to me. In terms of my playing style, Steve Stricker and I are similar.
When you see Bret Hart versus Steve Austin, it just seemed so much more real than Hulk Hogan versus Sgt. Slaughter.
Every member of the Beatles drove a Radford. Enzo Ferrari, Steve McQueen, Peter Sellers, Twiggy, they all had one. So it had this really kind of cult, celebrity following.
I did stand-up. I loved George Carlin and Steve Martin.
Just as the England football manager starts with bells and flags and balloons and ends up reviled, so do prime ministers. Tony Blair – is there anyone more despised now? Gordon Brown – all right, nobody voted for him but, you know… just think of any of them. Margaret Thatcher. John Major. Steve McLaren. Fabio Capello.
Steve McQueen was the guy who said less, and everything was all behind his words and what he didn’t say, and you still felt emotionally connected and rooted behind him.
Then I did The Tao of Steve and that was at Sundance in 2000 where it did really well.
