The Isaacson book is not a corporate how-to. It’s a biography of a complex person who happened to be in an industry you are interested in. His philosophy is not transferable to automobiles, construction or any industry other than the one he participated in.

The world is a complicated place. Simplistic understanding of complex interactions does not lead to understanding.
There are no lessons to be learned there. Steve Jobs was not always right.

Paul Ryan is a discredited bumbler whose economic theories are the discarded remnants of a forgotten and failed era.

Steve, not Apple, bought a home halfway across the country where the wait for liver transplants was shorter. Does that make him greedy because he used every resource at his disposal? It doesn’t make me upset that he “cheated” the system; I am not jealous of his prosperity. I think it is awesome that he had that opportunity, even if I couldn’t afford such an advantage.

If they didn’t give you free stuff, you would just steal what you needed.

With regards to ObamaCare, the costs will be passed down to the worker. Always has been, always will. The tax is on you, boy. Big business will continue being profitable at the expense of the worker. Big business is just the tax collector for the government. Now grow up.

The release of Mitt Romney’s 2011 tax returns shows that he freely gave away more than $4 million to charity last year (about 30 percent of his income). In comparison, when Joe Biden was first running for vice president, his tax returns showed that he had given away just $3,690 to charity over the previous ten years (about 0.2 percent of his income). In other words, Romney gave away a thousand times as much to charity in one year as Biden gave in a decade.

That’s despite the fact that the Bidens earned well over $2 million over that decade. In fact, their income was $320,000 in 2008, thereby putting them comfortably over the $250,000-a-year line that marks the entry point for “millionaires and billionaires” in Obama-speak.

http://bit.ly/UM5QlQ

The eight states where residents gave the highest share of income to charity went for John McCain in 2008. The seven-lowest ranking states supported Barack Obama.

http://philanthropy.com/article/America-s-Generosity-Divide/133775/

The release of Mitt Romney’s 2011 tax returns shows that he freely gave away more than $4 million to charity last year (about 30 percent of his income). In comparison, when Joe Biden was first running for vice president, his tax returns showed that he had given away just $3,690 to charity over the previous ten years (about 0.2 percent of his income). In other words, Romney gave away a thousand times as much to charity in one year as Biden gave in a decade.

That’s despite the fact that the Bidens earned well over $2 million over that decade. In fact, their income was $320,000 in 2008, thereby putting them comfortably over the $250,000-a-year line that marks the entry point for “millionaires and billionaires” in Obama-speak.

http://bit.ly/UM5QlQ

If apple ran the USA would you have healthcare for all
Google would make it an optional extra with ads
Ask yourself what would Steve do?

It was once wisely stated that if one has not failed one has not tried hard or often enough. Of course, today’s managerial class thinks they should be rewarded for FUBAR performances like those that caused the spectacular crash of Wall Street and the serving Banksters. Those b-stards went on TV and kept a straight face while arguing for their outlandish compensation claiming that people like them would leave America. I for one wish they would have.

As to the lucky sperm club earlier in the comments, here’s one for you.

Dubya was born on 3rd base and thought he hit a triple. Says it all about the bozos who screwed our economy up resulting in the 2007-8 market crash and recession.

I’m pretty sure it’ll give the tens of millions who’ll have access to the health care industry for the first time a lot better care than they’re getting now. Or don’t you count those people as “people”?

It’s not like we have the best health care system in the world, folks. We don’t. We just have the most EXPENSIVE health care system in the world, and it only works for about 75 percent of us.

In 2000, the last year they tried this, the World Health Report ranked the US 15th in delivering health care, but the most expensive, ranking us 37th overall.

In 2010, the Commonwealth Fund ranked the top 7 industrialized countries on their health care, and the US came in dead last.

Still want to argue the Affordable Care Act is going to be the death of us all? Is everyone dying in Massachusetts, where Obamacare has been working under it’s original name, Romneycare? Uh, no,

I’m guessing if you eliminated contributions to one’s church, then charitable contributions would be more or less equal from state to state.

The country spoke in November, and it was against the arrogant, obstructionist, ‘my way or no way’ mentality that the GOP adopted in this century. The Republican platform contains some good ideas, but they are not acceptable when presented in ultimatum form.

You have no chops left in this forum, F10T12. You spent the last few years shooting your load for the GOP and Romney and alienating a lot of people. Now you are just a bitter old husk of a partisan mouthpiece. All you do now is proclaim doom and gloom. Utterly worthless…

Why do you characterize Americans as greedy if we choose to finance our healthcare differently?

Arthur Brooks gave a speech entitled “Why Giving Matters” in 2009. One of the things he said based on his research was: “You will hear in the coming days and weeks and months that if our country were doing what it should be doing for people in need, then we wouldn’t need private giving, that the government would be taking care of people who need it, and that we would not need you to step in to provide for others. I am here to tell you, having looked at the data, that the day the government takes over for you in your private charity is the day we get poorer, unhappier, and unhealthier. We must demand to take our place as givers and support the communities and people who need the services we can provide.”

I’m a bit more pragmatic. No knee-jerking here. I think about the issues. I investigate them from all sides.

With Obamacare, as written, “society’s” health care will get markedly worse. You watch and see. Obamacare isn’t a solution to the U.S. healthcare woes, it’s a massive, massive problem.

By saying so, and trying to get others to understand the big problems coming to the U.S. because of this awful, unconstitutional — yes, unconstitutional — overreach, it means I actually do care.

I still don’t like it Steve Jobs is no longer on my life’s timeline and I am older than he was. Certain figures like that you are sharing life and new discoveries with even if you never meet them.

Even as they’re dying, they won’t get it.

Sadly, you just can’t fix stupid.

However, some of the very morons who voted for Obama, and by extension Obamacare, will actually die or watch their family members die because of their actions.

It’s sad, actually, but elections have consequences.

This country just voted for its own death. Let’s hope it can rise from the ashes like Steve Jobs did, who “didn’t build Apple.”

This is actually going to be fun, in a morbid, horror film sort of way.

The U.S.A. will pay dearly for allowing this Obamacare tragedy to be rammed down their throats.