TERRY GOU

An empire was not built by sitting in a corner office. It was built on the factory floor.

They said we were just cheap labor. Now we make the most sophisticated consumer product in human history. Who’s cheap now?

I started with $7,500 and TV knobs. Fifty years later, we make every iPhone on earth. Scale is the only strategy that matters.

The suicide nets were the darkest moment of my career. We failed those workers and it changed everything about how we operate.

Apple needs us more than they’ll ever admit publicly. Try finding someone else who can make 500,000 iPhones a day.