Steve Jobs
American co-founder of Apple and Pixar, 1955-2011
69 quotes.
Quotes by Steve Jobs
- Pixar has been a marathon, not a sprint. There are times when you run a marathon and you wonder, why am I doing this? But you take a drink of water, and around the next bend, you get your wind back, remember the finish line, and keep going.
- Quality is more important than quantity. One home run is much better than two doubles.
- Remembering that I’ll be dead soon is the most important tool I’ve ever encountered to help me make the big choices in life.
- Remembering that you are going to die is the best way I know to avoid the trap of thinking you have something to lose.
- Remembering that you are going to die is the best way I know to avoid the trap of thinking you have something to lose. You are already naked. There is no reason not to follow your heart.
- Sometimes life hits you in the head with a brick. Don't lose faith.
- Sometimes life is going to hit you in the head with a brick. Don't lose faith.
- Stay Hungry. Stay Foolish.
- That’s been one of my mantras – focus and simplicity. Simple can be harder than complex: You have to work hard to get your thinking clean to make it simple. But it’s worth it in the end because once you get there, you can move mountains.
- The Lisa people wanted to do something great. And the Mac people want to do something insanely great. The difference shows.
- The minute that you understand that you can poke life and actually something will pop out the other side, that you can change it, you can mold it.
- The most precious thing that we all have with us is time.
- The only thing you have in your life is time. If you invest that time in yourself to have great experiences that are going to enrich you, then you can’t possibly lose.
- The only way to be truly satisfied is to do what you believe is great work.
- The only way to do great work is to love what you do.
- The only way to do great work is to love what you do. If you haven’t found it yet, keep looking, and don’t settle.
- The people who are doing the work are the moving force behind the Macintosh. My job is to create a space for them, to clear out the rest of the organization and keep it at bay.
- Ultimately, it comes down to taste. It comes down to trying to expose yourself to the best things that humans have done and then try to bring those things into what you’re doing.
- We don’t get a chance to do that many things, and every one should be really excellent. Because this is our life. Life is brief, and then you die you know…
- We’re here to put a dent in the universe. Otherwise, why else even be here?
- You can't connect the dots looking forward; you can only connect them looking backward.
- You can’t connect the dots looking forward; you can only connect them looking backwards. So you have to trust that the dots will somehow connect in your future.
- You can't just ask customers what they want and then try to give that to them. By the time you get it built, they'll want something new.
- You have to believe that the dots will somehow connect in your future.
- "You‘ve got to start with the customer experience and work backwards to the technology."
- Your time is limited, so don't waste it living someone else's life.
- You’ve got to have an idea, or a problem or a wrong that you want to right that you’re passionate about, otherwise you’re not going to have the perseverance to stick it through. I think that’s half the battle right there.
- Your time is limited, so don't waste it living someone else's life. Don't be trapped by dogma — which is living with the results of other people's thinking.
- Be a yardstick of quality. Some people aren't used to an environment where excellence is expected.