Happy Birthday Steve Jobs: Business Leaders Reflect On Ex-Apple CEO

Happy Birthday Steve Jobs
FILE - This Sept. 9, 2009 file photo shows Apple CEO Steve Jobs at an Apple event in San Francisco. The 18th edition of "Bartlett's Familiar Quotations," has just been released, the first for the electronic age and a chance to take in some of the new faces, events and catchphrases of the past 10 years. General editor Geoffrey O'Brien says he has expanded upon the trend set by his predecessor, Justin Kaplan, of incorporating popular culture into an anthology once known for classical citations. Shakespeare and the Bible still reign, but room also has been made for Steve Jobs, Madonna and Michael Moore, Justin Timberlake and Jon Stewart. (AP Photo/Paul Sakuma, file)
FILE - This Sept. 9, 2009 file photo shows Apple CEO Steve Jobs at an Apple event in San Francisco. The 18th edition of "Bartlett's Familiar Quotations," has just been released, the first for the electronic age and a chance to take in some of the new faces, events and catchphrases of the past 10 years. General editor Geoffrey O'Brien says he has expanded upon the trend set by his predecessor, Justin Kaplan, of incorporating popular culture into an anthology once known for classical citations. Shakespeare and the Bible still reign, but room also has been made for Steve Jobs, Madonna and Michael Moore, Justin Timberlake and Jon Stewart. (AP Photo/Paul Sakuma, file)

If ex-Apple CEO Steve Jobs were still alive, he would be 58 today. Following his death in 2011 from cancer at age 56, major CEOs rushed to praise Jobs as one of the most "remarkable," "iconic" and "influential" business leaders of our time.

In honor of Jobs' birthday we're sharing some of what they had to say about him at the time of his death below:

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Business Leaders Reflect On Steve Jobs

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