Steve Job's Perspective on Focus

“A thousand no’s for every yes” is also how they put it at Apple

Warren Buffet said it better as "two lists"

Using this perspective, I constantly ask myself: "what 𝘨𝘰𝘰𝘥 ideas can I drop today so I can focus on the 𝘦𝘹𝘤𝘦𝘱𝘵𝘪𝘰𝘯𝘢𝘭 ones?"

Are you @todo_whiz?

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What's the source of this quote? If it was from an interview, is the full version available somewhere?

Only just now looking it up, but it looks like it points back to an interview with Fortune:

> “Apple is a $30 billion company yet we’ve got less than 30 major products. I don’t know if that’s ever been done before,” Steve Jobs told Fortune magazine in 2008. He added:

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> > ... People think focus means saying yes to the thing you’ve got to focus on. But that’s not what it means at all. It means saying no to the hundred other good ideas that there are ...

https://www.fastcompany.com/1693832/steve-jobss-strategy-get...

https://archive.fortune.com/galleries/2008/fortune/0803/gall...