“It was like a total revelation for me that a company could run like this, because I was used to these layers and bureaucracies and studies—the sort of paralysis that companies could get into—and Apple was totally different.”

— Tim Cook

Fortune: "Apple CEO Tim Cook Says Working for Steve Jobs Was 'Liberating'" http://fortune.com/2018/08/23/apple-ceo-tim-cook-steve-jobs-2/ (23 August 2018)

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