“We hire people who want to make the best things in the world”

Business Week’s latest  Voices Of The Innovators features an interview with Steve Jobs.

The Seed of Apple’s Innovation is a worthy read.

According to Jobs, innovation “comes from people meeting up in the hallways or calling each other at 10:30 at night with a new idea, or because they realized something that shoots holes in how we’ve been thinking about a problem. It’s ad hoc meetings of six people called by someone who thinks he has figured out the coolest new thing ever and who wants to know what other people think of his idea.”

“And it comes from saying no to 1,000 things to make sure we don’t get on the wrong track or try to do too much. We’re always thinking about new markets we could enter, but it’s only by saying no that you can concentrate on the things that are really important. “

Sage advice from a man synonymous with innovation.