Steven Sinofsky famous quotes

Last updated: Sep 5, 2024

Data is great, but strategy is better
-- Steven Sinofsky

#Business #Data #Management
The cloud-powered smartphone and tablet, as productivity tools, are transforming the world around us along with the implied changes in how we work to be mobile and more social.
-- Steven Sinofsky

#Smartphones #Clouds #Tools
A moment of disruption is where the conversation about disruption often begins, even though determining that moment is entirely hindsight.
-- Steven Sinofsky

#Moments #Hindsight #Conversation
The best work for creative folks on the team is when the problem is big and the solution escapes everyone.
-- Steven Sinofsky

#Team #Creative #Problem
When you delegate work to the member of the team, your job is to clearly frame success and describe the objectives.
-- Steven Sinofsky

#Jobs #Team #Members
If the work requires smart, talented, creative people, then more than anything, you want to enable folks on the team to create.
-- Steven Sinofsky

#Smart #Team #People
A mouse has the precision that your finger can't approach.
-- Steven Sinofsky

#Precision #Fingers #Approach
Nothing called the "Gang Of Four" ends well.
-- Steven Sinofsky

#Four #Gang #Ends

Of course, the advantage is that, being in this business, you get to learn a lot, experience a lot of new things, and you can become real successful. The disadvantage is, of course the negative media. People may try to manipulate you and control you, and those are the things you have to avoid. But if you maintain strong family values and you believe in God, you can be successful. So, it's been tough, but I've gotten through it because I stuck with my family and my deep belief in God.
When you get into this business you have to grow up quickly. But I wouldn't say I've lost any of my childhood, I've always been a mature child. My Mom says I've been like that since I was little kid. I make time for my friends and I make time for things that other kids do. This is a business and I knew what I was getting into. I make time for being a kid, but I also know when to put on my business hat and go for the business.
If we could sell our experiences for what they cost us, we'd all be millionaires.
With Malice toward none, with charity for all, with firmness in the right, as God gives us to see the right, let us strive on to finish the work we are in, to bind up the nation's wounds.
Every individual is at once the beneficiary and the victim of the linguistic tradition into which he has been born - the beneficiary inasmuch as language gives access to the accumulated records of other people's experience, the victim in so far as it confirms him in the belief that reduced awareness is the only awareness and as it bedevils his sense of reality, so that he is all too apt to take his concepts for data, his words for actual things.
It is not a medicine. You don't know what's in it. If there were compelling scientific and medical data supporting marijuana's medical benefits that would be one thing. But the data is not there.
A company will get nowhere if all of the thinking is left to management.
If you feel like it's difficult to change, you will probably have a harder time succeeding.
Being good in business is the most fascinating kind of art
If cybernetics is the science of control, management is the profession of control

Steven Sinofsky famous quotes

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