“Do you want to spend the rest of your life selling sugared water or do you want a chance to change the world?”

—  Steve Jobs

A comment he made in persuading John Sculley to become Apple's CEO, as quoted in Odyssey: Pepsi to Apple: A Journey of Adventure, Ideas, and the Future (1987) by John Sculley and John A. Byrne
1980s

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American entrepreneur and co-founder of Apple Inc. 1955–2011

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