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Apple CEO Tim Cook Delivers The MIT Commencement Speech | TIME.

Apple CEO Tim Cook delivers a great commencement speech.  Always nice to get advice from the top business minds.

Key Points from his Speech

  1. The Power of Education: Cook highlighted the importance of education in shaping leaders and innovators, especially at institutions like MIT. He emphasized how technology and science hold the power to address some of humanity’s biggest challenges.
  2. Technology’s Role: He spoke about how technology should be used not for the sake of technology itself but to improve lives and solve problems. He pointed to MIT graduates as a generation of problem-solvers with the tools to transform the world.
  3. Integrity and Ethics: Cook stressed the importance of staying true to one’s values and using personal and professional influence ethically. He also discussed the responsibility that comes with great power and knowledge.
  4. Challenges of the Future: Cook acknowledged the challenges facing the world, including issues like climate change, inequality, and the ethical implications of technology. He encouraged graduates to be bold and to tackle these global issues head-on.
  5. The Role of Diversity: He emphasized how diversity in all forms (race, gender, background, and thought) is a critical element of innovation, which MIT fosters.
  6. The Importance of Impact: Finally, Cook urged the graduates to think about the impact they want to make, both on their communities and the world at large. He concluded by offering his congratulations and hope for a future shaped by their vision and commitment.

Steve Jobs Tim Cook CEO Quotes

  • “We care about every worker in our worldwide supply chain… What we will not do – and never have done – is stand still or turn a blind eye to problems in our supply chain. On this you have my word.” ~Tim Cook, Apple CEO Tim Cook Supply Chain guru.
  • Too often people think about intuition as the same as relying on luck or faith. At least as I see it, nothing could be further from the truth. Intuition can tell you, of the doors that are open to you, which one you should walk through. But intuition cannot prepare you for what’s on the other side of that door.” ~Tim Cook.
  • “Apple has changed every day since I have been here. But the DNA of the company, the thing that makes our heart beat, is a maniacal focus on making the best products in the world. Not good products, or a lot of products, but the absolute best products in the world. In creating these great products we focus on enriching people’s lives – a higher cause for the product.” ~Tim Cook, Supply Chain Guru.
  • “Let your joy be in your journey – not in some distant goal.” ~Tim Cook, CEO Apple.
  • “Creativity and innovation are something you can’t flowchart out.” ~Tim Cook.
  • “My model for business is The Beatles. They were four guys who kept each other’s kind of negative tendencies in check. They balanced each other and the total was greater than the sum of the parts. That’s how I see business: great things in business are never done by one person, they’re done by a team of people.” ~Steve Jobs.

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