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    RIP Steve Jobs

    October 9, 2011 11:00 AM | Mike Wood for RocheCareers

    Steve Jobs RIPI think it's true to say, very few people in business have made as much impact as Steve Jobs. Never one to follow, he was a true innovator, and constantly pushed boundariesto create products that changed the way people think and behave.

    With a unique combination of business senseand immagination he surrounded himself with great "artists", and gave them the space and encouragement to create the industry changing products that people wanted, oftenbefore they knew they wanted them.

    We've pulled together a few Steve Jobs' quotes that we think will inpire you or give you an insight into the mind of the man himself. A true iCon.
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    Work and Career Quotes

    March 7, 2011 1:00 PM | Mike Wood for RocheCareers

    A selection of work, careers and business quotes to inspire you!


    A pessimist sees difficulty in every opportunity, an optimist sees opportunity in every difficulty

    Winston Churchill
    All truths are easy to understand once they are discovered; the point is to discover them

    Galileo
    Don't judge each day by the harvest you reap but by the seeds that you plant

    Robert Louis Stevenson
    However beautiful the strategy, you should occasionally look at the results

    Winston Churchill
    I do the very best I know how, the very best I can, and I mean to keep on doing so until the end

    Abraham Lincoln
    I never teach my pupils; I only attempt to provide the conditions in which they can learn

    Albert Einstein
    If I had thought about it, I wouldn't have done the experiment. The literature was full of examples that said you can't do this

    Spencer Silver on the work that led to the unique adhesives for 3M PostIt Notepads.
    If you think youre too small to have an impact, try going to bed with a mosquito in the room

    Anita Roddick
    It's fine to celebrate success but it is more important to heed the lessons of failure

    Bill Gates
    Laziness may appear attractive, but work gives satisfaction Anne Frank
    Minds are like parachutes. They only function when they are open.-

    Sir James Dewar, Scientist (1877-1925)
    My education was interrupted only by my schooling.

    Winston Churchill
    Opportunity is missed by most people because it is dressed in overalls and looks like work

    Thomas Edison
    Price is what you pay, value is what you get

    Warren Buffett
    Quality means doing it right when no one is looking. -

    Henry Ford
    Saying nothing...sometimes says the most

    Emily Dickinson
    Success does not consist in never making mistakes but in never making the same one a second time

    George Bernard Shaw
    Success is the ability to go from failure to failure without losing your enthusiasm

    Winston Churchill
    The strongest leaders do not command, they empower.

    Ralph Marston
    To lose patience is to lose the battle

    Mahatma Gandhi
    Try not to become a person of success but a person of value

    Albert Einstein
    We dont have as many managers as we should, but we would rather have too few than too many

    Larry Page
    When angry, count ten before you speak; if very angry, an hundred.

    Thomas Jefferson
    When one door closes, another opens; but we often look so long and so regretfully upon the closed door that we do not see the one which has opened for us

    Alexander Graham Bell
    You will never find time for anything. If you want time, you must make it.

    Charles Bruxton
    Your most unhappy customers are your greatest source of learning

    Bill Gates

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