"Focusing is about saying no" - Steve Jobs (WWDC'97)

Excellent short answer on the importance of saying "no" and the effect on the people.
Saying no is hard and it's not a matter of killing bad things, but must be done to focus.

(Clipped from the mactechlab source video, I wasn't able to find the original source. Please contact me if you know it to give proper credits).

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[COOLifeDesign]

This is the beauty of the PARETO principle;) I'm happy to see that another great leader has been thinking in 80/20 way! We should all be putting bullets in the heads of low value daily tasks we perform.

[rahulbsb1]

One of the best sayings by any CEO....Steve knew what his engineers were truely capable of doin'..

[Navneet Shrivastava]

Hate or LOve - Stevee made some sense out of what he talked and walked..

[getrichkingvids]

If Microsoft does the vision you just mentioned, they will gain their own fanboys and their customers will become advocates.

[John David]

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[nikweinstein]

I'm a PC. I am not a FAN of Microsoft. I just see a computer as a commodity. I think that's the essence what makes someone a PC person and not a Mac person. I disagree about the "no matter what" thing. People are fickle. Apple has momentum right now, but are still selling, at the base of it, a commodity whose value mostly comes from belief/marketing, and will have to CONTINUALLY improve, and that's not set in stone...nothing in the technology world is.

[DJtrainman261]

Actually, Microsoft is moving over to Apple in a different way - by closing up platforms, by limiting functionality in an attempt to make things work better. Problem is, that has worked for Apple on the iPhone and the iPad, only because of the fact that they had a bigger market share in the first place, which was caused by the Apple fanboys. Microsoft has fans, but not the same kind of them that Apple has, which will stay faithful no matter what.