Best Tim Cook Quotes & Sayings

Excellence has become a habit. — Tim Cook

I am confident our best years lie ahead of us and that together we will continue to make Apple the
magical place that it is. — Tim Cook

There's a mountain of information about us. I mean there's so much. Anyway, I'm not an intelligence person. But I just look at it and it's a mountain of data. — Tim Cook

Android [dominates] the mobile malware market. — Tim Cook

The future of television is what our competitors have been doing for years. — Tim Cook

We are the most focused company that I know of or have read of or have any knowledge of. We say no to good ideas every day. We say no to great ideas in order to keep the amount of things we focus on very small in number, so that we can put enormous energy behind the ones we do choose ... It's not just saying yes to the right products, it's saying no to many products that are good ideas, but just not nearly as good as other ones. — Tim Cook

That brings us to iPad. We think the iPad is the poster-child of the post-PC world. — Tim Cook

The longer the meeting, the less is accomplished. — Tim Cook

His office is still there, with his name on it. And it will always be there as long as I'm here. — Tim Cook

We're very simple people at Apple. We focus on making the world's best products and enriching people's lives. — Tim Cook

Creativity is people who care enough to keep thinking about something until they find the simplest way to do it. — Tim Cook

I'd rather Apple cannibalize Apple than somebody else cannibalize Apple. — Tim Cook

Let your joy be in your journey - not in some distant goal. — Tim Cook

Televisions are devices with screens that things appear on. — Tim Cook

I don't consider myself an activist, but I realize how much I've benefited from the sacrifice of others. So if hearing that the CEO of Apple is gay can help someone struggling to come to terms with who he or she is, or bring comfort to anyone who feels alone, or inspire people to insist on their equality, then it's worth the trade-off with my own privacy. — Tim Cook

So let me be clear: I'm proud to be gay, and I consider being gay among the greatest gifts God has given me. — Tim Cook

I'm speaking to you from Silicon Valley, where some of the most prominent and successful companies have built their businesses by lulling their customers into complacency about their personal information. They're gobbling up everything they can learn about you and trying to monetize it. We think that's wrong. And it's not the kind of company that Apple wants to be. — Tim Cook

There's a lot of health information available on your smart phone. There's financial information. There's your conversations, there's business secrets. There's an enormous long list of things that there's probably more information about you on here than exists in your home, right. Which makes it a lot more valuable to all the bad guys out there. — Tim Cook

The government should always be the one defending civil liberties. — Tim Cook

Apple Watch is the most personal device we've ever created. — Tim Cook

From an app point of view, if you looked at innovation on the PC, you'd be hard pressed to find companies innovating. The list is small. — Tim Cook

Apple Stores Offer the Best Buying Experience and Customer Service On The Planet — Tim Cook

We make the best phone, we don't make the most phones. — Tim Cook

While our team managed the manufacturing ramp better than ever before, we could have sold many more iPhones with greater supply and we are working hard to fill orders as quickly as possible. — Tim Cook

Price is rarely the most important thing. A cheap product might sell some units. Somebody gets it home and they feel great when they pay the money, but then they get it home and use it and the joy is gone. — Tim Cook

We're putting all of our energy into making it right. And we have already had several software updates. We've got a huge plan to make it even better. It will get better and better over time. We screwed up. That's the fact. — Tim Cook

And that's what everyone at Apple is focused on - pushing forward and creating the future. — Tim Cook

If I'm expected to keep your messages, and everybody else's, then there should be a law that says, you need to keep all of these. — Tim Cook

Our new watches are made entirely of double super gold. They are just a piece of gold that you can wear to the left, right, or directly on top of the other gold you own. — Tim Cook

I despise politics. There is no room for it in a company. My life is going to be way too short to deal with that. — Tim Cook

Our business is not based on having information about you. You're not our product. Our product are these, and this watch, and Macs, and so forth. And so we run a very different company. I think everyone has to ask, how do companies make their money? Follow the money. And if they're making money mainly by collecting gobs of personal data, I think you have a right to be worried. — Tim Cook

Under [Tim] Cook's leadership, Apple is now using 100 percent renewable energy in the U.S. and China, and it's worked to improve conditions at its manufacturing plants in China. — Laura Sydell

I believe that if you took privacy and you said, I'm willing to give up all of my privacy to be secure. So you weighted it as a zero. My own view is that encryption is a much better, much better world. And I'm not the only person that thinks that. — Tim Cook

The sidelines are not where you want to live your life. The world needs you in the arena! — Tim Cook

You know, this iPhone, as a matter of fact, the engine in here is made in America. And not only are the engines in here made in America, but engines are made in America and are exported. The glass on this phone is made in Kentucky. And so we've been working for years on doing more and more in the United States. — Tim Cook

It's the privilege of a lifetime for me to work with the most innovative people on Earth. Only Apple can deliver this kind of innovation in such a beautiful, integrated, and easy to use way. It's what we love to do, it's what we stand for. — Tim Cook

In the world of cyber security, the last thing you want is to have a target painted on you. — Tim Cook

You can converge a toaster and a refrigerator, but those things are probably not going to be pleasing to the user. — Tim Cook