463 Quotes by Walter Isaacson



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    As a master of the relationship between power and diplomacy, Franklin knew that it would be impossible to win at the negotiating table what was unwinnable on the battlefield.

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    I think different religions are different doors to the same house. Sometimes I think the house exists, and sometimes I don’t. It’s the great mystery. (Steve Jobs)

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    In two days he saw Rupert Murdoch, his son James, and the management of their Wall Street Journal; Arthur Sulzberger Jr. and the top executives at the New York Times; and executives at Time, Fortune, and other Time Inc. magazines. “I would love to help quality journalism,” he later said. “We can’t depend on bloggers for our news.

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    Sometimes, to relieve stress, he would soak his feet in the toilet, a practice that was not as soothing for his collegues.

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    He told her, somewhat emotionally, that he wished she could have seen him when he was managing a Mediterranean restaurant north of San José. " That was a wonderful place," he said. "All of the successful technology people used to come there. Even Steve Jobs." (......) Mona was able to refrain from blurting out, Steve Jobs is your son!

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