{"id":14652,"date":"2011-05-24T07:55:23","date_gmt":"2011-05-24T14:55:23","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.bloodhoundrealty.com\/BloodhoundBlog\/?p=14652"},"modified":"2011-05-24T08:00:30","modified_gmt":"2011-05-24T15:00:30","slug":"%e2%80%9cpeople-think-focus-means-saying-yes-to-the-thing-you%e2%80%99ve-got-to-focus-on-but-that%e2%80%99s-not-what-it-means-at-all-it-means-saying-no-to-the-hundred-other-good-ideas-that-there-a","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.bloodhoundrealty.com\/BloodhoundBlog\/14652\/%e2%80%9cpeople-think-focus-means-saying-yes-to-the-thing-you%e2%80%99ve-got-to-focus-on-but-that%e2%80%99s-not-what-it-means-at-all-it-means-saying-no-to-the-hundred-other-good-ideas-that-there-a\/","title":{"rendered":"\u201cPeople think focus means saying yes to the thing you\u2019ve got to focus on. But that\u2019s not what it means at all. It means saying no to the hundred other good ideas that there are. You have to pick carefully. I\u2019m actually as proud of the things we haven\u2019t done as the things I have done. Innovation is saying \u2018no\u2019 to 1,000 things.\u201d"},"content":{"rendered":"

Steve Jobs in Forbes<\/a>. One of the most hateful precepts of socialism is the idea of existential equality. We are all equal politically, but in the things we do with our lives we are very different. The world we live in is much richer because Jobs is alive now, too. We will be poorer when he shuffles off this mortal coil. The best thing we can do — for ourselves, for our businesses and in tribute to the best the human mind can achieve — is to learn to think as Steve Jobs thinks.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Steve Jobs in Forbes. One of the most hateful precepts of socialism is the idea of existential equality. We are all equal politically, but in the things we do with our lives we are very different. The world we live in is much richer because Jobs is alive now, too. 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