Steve Jobs
American co-founder of Apple and Pixar, 1955-2011
69 quotes.
Quotes by Steve Jobs
- Almost everything, all external expectations, all pride, all fear of embarrassment or failure, these things just fall away in the face of death, leaving only what is truly important.
- As you may know, I was basically fired from Apple when I was 30 and was invited to come back 12 years later so that was difficult when it happened but maybe the best thing that could ever happen to me. […] you just move on, life goes on and you learn from it.
- Being the richest man in the cemetery doesn't matter to me … Going to bed at night saying we've done something wonderful... that's what matters to me.
- Believing that the dots will connect down the road will give you the confidence to follow your heart.
- Creativity is just connecting things.
- Creativity is just connecting things. When you ask creative people how they did something, they feel a little guilty because they didn’t really do it, they just saw something.
- Death is very likely the single best invention of Life. It is Life's change agent.
- Design is not just what it looks like and feels like. Design is how it works.
- Details matter, it’s worth waiting to get it right.
- Do you want to spend the rest of your life selling sugared water or do you want a chance to change the world?
- Don't let the noise of others' opinions drown out your own inner voice.
- Every good product I've ever seen is because a group of people cared deeply about making something wonderful that they and their friends wanted. They wanted to use it themselves.
- Focus does not mean saying yes, it means saying no.
- Focusing is about saying no.
- Get closer than ever to your customers. So close that you tell them what they need well before they realize it themselves.
- Great things in business are never done by one person. They’re done by a team of people.
- Have the courage to follow your heart and intuition. They somehow already know what you truly want to become.
- I always advise people – Don’t wait! Do something when you are young, when you have nothing to lose, and keep that in mind.
- I don’t care about being right. I care about success and doing the right thing.
- I found that there were these incredibly great people at doing certain things, and that you couldn't replace one of these people with 50 average people. They could just do things that no number of average people could do.
- I think all of us need to be on guard against arrogance which knocks at the door whenever you’re successful.
- I think the things you most regret in life are things you didn’t do. What you really regret was never asking that girl to dance.
- I would trade all of my technology for an afternoon with Socrates.
- If today were the last of your life, would you do what you were going to do today?
- If you don’t love it, you’re going to fail.
- If you haven't found it yet, keep looking. Don't settle.
- I'm as proud of what we don't do as I am of what we do.
- I'm convinced that about half of what separates the successful entrepreneurs from the non-successful ones is pure perseverance.
- I’m convinced that the only thing that kept me going was that I loved what I did. You’ve got to find what you love.
- Innovation has nothing to do with how many R&D dollars you have. When Apple came up with the Mac, IBM was spending at least 100 times more on R&D. It's not about money. It's about the people you have, how you're led, and how much you get it.
- Innovation is saying ‘no’ to 1,000 things.
- 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.
- It takes a passionate commitment to thoroughly understand something—chew it up, not just quickly swallow it.
- It's in Apple's DNA that technology alone is not enough; it's technology married with liberal arts, married with the humanities, that yields us the result that makes our heart sing.
- It's more fun to be a pirate than to join the Navy.
- Let’s go invent tomorrow rather than worrying about what happened yesterday.
- Most people don’t get those experiences because they never ask. I’ve never found anybody that didn’t want to help me if I asked them for help.
- Most people never pick up the phone and call. Most people never ask. And that’s what separates sometimes the people that do things from the people that just dream about them.
- Now, as you graduate to begin anew, I wish that for you, ‘Stay hungry, stay foolish‘.
- Once you discover one simple fact, and that is everything around you that you call life, was made up by people that were no smarter than you.