Arthur Rock Quotes

Steve Jobs is a national treasure. He is so visionary, and so bright. I had to fire him, though.

You know, a lot of people are just interested in, in building a company so they can make money and get out.

Killing Intel, I, I just had to resign from the Apple Board.

Which, the first meeting with anybody is, you know, everybody is on their best behavior. It's only after you get to know them for a while that you figure out.

The cost of a semiconductor chip fabrication plant doubles every four years.

So I, I knew something in a business sense about semiconductors and I appreciated their possibilities.

People come in with business plans and, I mean I know that no one is going to meet everything they say in a business plan but you got to have something to, to guide towards.

This country's going to have a revolution if something doesn't happen the haves and have - nots.

Well, I was born and raised in Rochester, New York.

And what I'm interested in is investing in people.

My father was an immigrant from Russia and my mother was first generation.

I mean I wasn't a founder in the sense that I contributed anything scientifically but in the sense that I signed the corporation papers and, and owned founder's stock.