Steve Jobs quotes

Steve Jobs

"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. Don't let the noise of others' opinions drown out your own inner voice. And most important, have the courage to follow your heart and intuition."
Steve Jobs
Life Heart Courage Time
"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 have to trust in something - your gut, destiny, life, karma, whatever. This approach has never let me down, and it has made all the difference in my life."
Steve Jobs
Life Future Me You
"Your work is going to fill a large part of your life, and the only way to be truly satisfied is to do what you believe is great work. And the only way to do great work is to love what you do. If you haven't found it yet, keep looking. Don't settle. As with all matters of the heart, you'll know when you find it."
Steve Jobs
Inspirational Life Love Work
"My favorite things in life don't cost any money. It's really clear that the most precious resource we all have is time."
Steve Jobs
Life Time Money Precious
"For the past 33 years, I have looked in the mirror every morning and asked myself: 'If today were the last day of my life, would I want to do what I am about to do today?' And whenever the answer has been 'No' for too many days in a row, I know I need to change something."
Steve Jobs
Life Myself Change Today
"Great things in business are never done by one person. They're done by a team of people."
Steve Jobs
Great Business People Never Person
"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."
Steve Jobs
Best Heart You Thinking
"Innovation distinguishes between a leader and a follower."
Steve Jobs
Leadership Innovation Leader Follower
"Design is not just what it looks like and feels like. Design is how it works."
Steve Jobs
Design Like Looks Just How
"Be a yardstick of quality. Some people aren't used to an environment where excellence is expected."
Steve Jobs
Leadership People Quality Excellence
"Technology is nothing. What's important is that you have a faith in people, that they're basically good and smart, and if you give them tools, they'll do wonderful things with them."
Steve Jobs
Faith Good You Technology
"Stay hungry, stay foolish."
Steve Jobs
Hungry Stay Foolish
"No one wants to die. Even people who want to go to heaven don't want to die to get there. And yet death is the destination we all share. No one has ever escaped it. And that is as it should be, because Death is very likely the single best invention of Life. It is Life's change agent. It clears out the old to make way for the new."
Steve Jobs
Life Best Change Death
"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."
Steve Jobs
You Time New Try
"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."
Steve Jobs
Work You Simple Thinking
"Sometimes when you innovate, you make mistakes. It is best to admit them quickly, and get on with improving your other innovations."
Steve Jobs
Best You Business Sometimes
"It's not a faith in technology. It's faith in people."
Steve Jobs
Faith Technology People
"Everyone here has the sense that right now is one of those moments when we are influencing the future."
Steve Jobs
Inspirational Future Right Everyone
"Computers themselves, and software yet to be developed, will revolutionize the way we learn."
Steve Jobs
Computers Way Will Learn
"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. It seemed obvious to them after a while. That's because they were able to connect experiences they've had and synthesize new things."
Steve Jobs
You People New Feel
"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. Because 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."
Steve Jobs
Life Death Me Failure
"I was lucky - I found what I loved to do early in life. Woz and I started Apple in my parents' garage when I was 20. We worked hard, and in 10 years, Apple had grown from just the two of us in a garage into a $2 billion company with over 4000 employees."
Steve Jobs
Life Lucky Parents Us
"I didn't see it then, but it turned out that getting fired from Apple was the best thing that could have ever happened to me. The heaviness of being successful was replaced by the lightness of being a beginner again, less sure about everything. It freed me to enter one of the most creative periods of my life."
Steve Jobs
Life Best Me Getting
"I want to put a ding in the universe."
Steve Jobs
Business Universe Want Put
"An iPod, a phone, an internet mobile communicator... these are NOT three separate devices! And we are calling it iPhone! Today Apple is going to reinvent the phone. And here it is."
Steve Jobs
Today Internet Phone Three
"If you haven't found it yet, keep looking. Don't settle. As with all matters of the heart, you'll know when you find it. And, like any great relationship, it just gets better and better as the years roll on."
Steve Jobs
Heart You Great Relationship
"We made the buttons on the screen look so good you'll want to lick them."
Steve Jobs
Good You Look Want
"It's not the tools that you have faith in - tools are just tools. They work, or they don't work. It's people you have faith in or not. Yeah, sure, I'm still optimistic I mean, I get pessimistic sometimes but not for long."
Steve Jobs
Faith Work Long You
"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."
Steve Jobs
Me Man Night Matter
"My biological mother later found out that my mother had never graduated from college and that my father had never graduated from high school. She refused to sign the final adoption papers. She only relented a few months later when my parents promised that I would someday go to college."
Steve Jobs
Never Parents Father Go
"It took us three years to build the NeXT computer. If we'd given customers what they said they wanted, we'd have built a computer they'd have been happy with a year after we spoke to them - not something they'd want now."
Steve Jobs
Happy Want Us Three
"A lot of companies have chosen to downsize, and maybe that was the right thing for them. We chose a different path. Our belief was that if we kept putting great products in front of customers, they would continue to open their wallets."
Steve Jobs
Great Path The Right Thing Right
"A lot of people in our industry haven't had very diverse experiences. So they don't have enough dots to connect, and they end up with very linear solutions without a broad perspective on the problem. The broader one's understanding of the human experience, the better design we will have."
Steve Jobs
Experience People Better Will
"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? So this is what we've chosen to do with our life."
Steve Jobs
Life You Die Chance
"I believe life is an intelligent thing: that things aren't random."
Steve Jobs
Life Believe Random I Believe Things
"Things don't have to change the world to be important."
Steve Jobs
Change World Change The World Things
"Design is a funny word. Some people think design means how it looks. But of course, if you dig deeper, it's really how it works."
Steve Jobs
Funny You People Think
"Design is the fundamental soul of a man-made creation that ends up expressing itself in successive outer layers of the product or service. The iMac is not just the color or translucence or the shape of the shell. The essence of the iMac is to be the finest possible consumer computer in which each element plays together."
Steve Jobs
Soul Together Service Computers
"When you're a carpenter making a beautiful chest of drawers, you're not going to use a piece of plywood on the back, even though it faces the wall and nobody will ever see it. You'll know it's there, so you're going to use a beautiful piece of wood on the back."
Steve Jobs
Beautiful You Will Nobody
"Pretty much, Apple and Dell are the only ones in this industry making money. They make it by being Wal-Mart. We make it by innovation."
Steve Jobs
Money Innovation Apple Only
"If you're gonna make connections which are innovative... you have to not have the same bag of experiences as everyone else does."
Steve Jobs
You Bag Everyone Connections
"Now, we are selling over 5 million songs a day now. Isn't that unbelievable? That's 58 songs every second of every minute of every hour of every day."
Steve Jobs
Day Every Day Now Selling
"I'm an optimist in the sense that I believe humans are noble and honorable, and some of them are really smart. I have a very optimistic view of individuals."
Steve Jobs
Intelligence Believe View Smart
"Older people sit down and ask, 'What is it?' but the boy asks, 'What can I do with it?'."
Steve Jobs
People Boy Down Sit Ask
"I've done a lot of things I'm not proud of, such as getting my girlfriend pregnant when I was 23 and the way I handled that."
Steve Jobs
Getting Way Proud Things
"Apple's market share is bigger than BMW's or Mercedes's or Porsche's in the automotive market. What's wrong with being BMW or Mercedes?"
Steve Jobs
Mercedes BMW Wrong Apple
"The most compelling reason for most people to buy a computer for the home will be to link it to a nationwide communications network. We're just in the beginning stages of what will be a truly remarkable breakthrough for most people - as remarkable as the telephone."
Steve Jobs
People Home Computers Beginning
"For you to sleep well at night, the aesthetic, the quality, has to be carried all the way through."
Steve Jobs
You Night Quality Sleep
"I think we're having fun. I think our customers really like our products. And we're always trying to do better."
Steve Jobs
Better Always Think Like

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