In ten years, Apple has gone from a relatively small computer company—with no Apple Stores, iPod, iTunes, Mac OS X or iPhone—to being a technology leader with a range of great products, while being the most valuable company in Silicon Valley. I think, looking back, it’s no wonder Steve Jobs is Fortune’s “CEO of the Decade.”

For 26 years, Fortune has been creating a list of “America’s Most Admired Companies.” Apple topped that list. What really suprised me was a quote by Apple CEO, Steve Jobs in an exclusive interview with Fortune Senior Editor Betsy Morris: “We do no market research. We just want to make great products. When we created more »