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It expressed itself not as a personal drive (though there was that, too) but as a general principle that everyone should think big and then make big things happen.
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‘Throughout his career,’ says Walter Isaacson, ‘Jobs liked to see himself as an enlightened rebel, a Jedi warrior or Buddhist samurai fighting the forces of darkness’ – such as IBM.16 It was for this reason that he craved perfection in his products; he would not settle for less. This also explains his very unusual policy of insisting Apple controll
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