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Claiming your product will revolutionize the industry? Dissing your competitors? Comparing yourself to Steve Jobs

In this exclusive audio clip, Steve Jobs reveals "the secret to my success." A Conversation With Steve Jobs Read highlights from The Lost Steve Jobs Tapes. Or check here all week for new audio snippets from our May cover story . Download our iPad app to hear excerpts from "The Lost Steve Jobs Tapes," along with a special podcast with never-before-heard audio

In the mid 1990’s, Apple Computers was a dying company.

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The business press loves to create mythic heroes of industry and we love it, too.

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Learn to use spare time to think and re-energize. Some recent management works I recommend: Star Trek: Voyager, The Wire, and the biographies of Steve Jobs and Jack Kennedy.

Breaking news from your editors at Fast Company, with updates all day. Opposing SOPA, Wikipedia Considers Blackout . As a message to legislators who'll vote on the Stop Online Privacy Act (SOPA) in the next few days, Wikipedia founder Jimmy Wales has threatened to blank out the pages of Wikipedia

Feel like a failure?

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A crazy year for Apple shows no sign of slowing as 2012 approaches--more and more rumors are popping up. We've looked at them with a critical eye for you

In 1977, 22-year-old Steve Jobs introduced the world to one of the first self-contained personal computers, the Apple II.

Per square foot, Apple outsells most other retailers, but it didn't happen overnight. Here are three things the company got right that you can steal. Ask a seasoned entrepreneur how to increase sales and you'll likely hear such terms as up-sell and cross-sell

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