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Quotes by Steve Jobs - (36 quotes)

Steve Jobs - From the Artists category:

Real artists ship. (Steve Jobs)

Steve Jobs - From the Choices category:

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. (Steve Jobs)

Steve Jobs - From the Courage category:

Have the courage to follow your heart and intuition. They somehow already know what you truly want to become. Everything else is secondary. (Steve Jobs)

Steve Jobs - From the Creativity category:

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. (Steve Jobs)

Steve Jobs - From the Creativity category:

None of us are as creative as all of us. (Steve Jobs)

Steve Jobs - From the Design category:

Design is not just what it looks like and feels like. Design is how it works. (Steve Jobs)

Steve Jobs - From the Desire category:

A lot of times, people don't know what they want until you show it to them. (Steve Jobs)

Steve Jobs - From the Dreams category:

We used to dream about this stuff. Now we get to build it. It's pretty great. (Steve Jobs)

Steve Jobs - From the Eccentricity category:

Here's to the crazy ones, the misfits, the rebels, the troublemakers, the round pegs in the square holes... the ones who see things differently - they're not fond of rules... You can quote them, disagree with them, glorify or vilify them, but the only thing you can't do is ignore them because they change things... they push the human race forward, and while some may see them as the crazy ones, we see genius, because the ones who are crazy enough to think that they can change the world, are the ones who do. (Steve Jobs)

Steve Jobs - From the Excellence category:

Be a yardstick of quality. Some people aren't used to an environment where excellence is expected. (Steve Jobs)

Steve Jobs - From the Excellence category:

- The Second Coming of Steve Jobs by Alan Deutschman, 2000...
You've baked a really lovely cake, but then you've used dog shit for frosting. (Steve Jobs)

Steve Jobs - From the Expectation category:

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. (Steve Jobs)

Steve Jobs - From the Future category:

Let's go invent tomorrow! (Steve Jobs)

Steve Jobs - From the Greatness category:

Insanely Great! (Steve Jobs)

Steve Jobs - From the Ideas category:

There is a temptation in our networked age to think that ideas can be developed by email and iChat. That is crazy. Creativity comes from spontaneous meetings, from random discussions. You run into someone, you ask what they are doing, you say, 'Wow' and soon you are cooking up all sorts of ideas. (Steve Jobs)

Steve Jobs - From the Innovation category:

Sometimes when you innovate, you make mistakes. It is best to admit them quickly, and get on with improving your other innovations. (Steve Jobs)

Steve Jobs - From the Leadership category:

Innovation distinguishes between a leader and a follower. (Steve Jobs)

Steve Jobs - From the Life category:

Sometimes life is going to hit you in the head with a brick. Don't lose faith. (Steve Jobs)

Steve Jobs - From the Love category:

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)

Steve Jobs - From the Masters category:

I would trade all of my technology for an afternoon with Socrates. (Steve Jobs)

Steve Jobs - From the Money category:

I was worth about over a million dollars when I was twenty-three and over ten million dollars when I was twenty-four, and over a hundred million dollars when I was twenty-five and it wasn't that important because I never did it for the money. (Steve Jobs)

Steve Jobs - From the Performance category:

I make 50 cents for showing up... and the other 50 cents is based on my performance. (Steve Jobs)

Steve Jobs - From the Perseverance category:

I'm convinced that about half of what separates the successful entrepreneurs from the non-successful ones is pure perseverance. (Steve Jobs)

Steve Jobs - From the Production category:

And one more thing... (Steve Jobs)

Steve Jobs - From the Profession category:

I was lucky - I found what I love to do early in life. (Steve Jobs)

Steve Jobs - From the Progress category:

I think if you do something and it turns out pretty good, then you should go do something else wonderful, not dwell on it for too long. Just figure out what's next. (Steve Jobs)

Steve Jobs - From the Rewards category:

The journey is the reward. (Steve Jobs)

Steve Jobs - From the Silence category:

We do not say anything about future products. We work on them in secret, then we announce them. (Steve Jobs)

Steve Jobs - From the Simplicity category:

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)

Steve Jobs - From the Technology category:

What a computer is to me is the most remarkable tool that we have ever come up with. It's the equivalent of a bicycle for our minds. (Steve Jobs)

Steve Jobs - From the Technology category:

We think basically you watch television to turn your brain off, and you work on your computer when you want to turn your brain on. (Steve Jobs)

Steve Jobs - From the Technology category:

What's new is this amazingly efficient distribution system for stolen property called the Internet - and no one's gonna shut down the Internet. (Steve Jobs)

Steve Jobs - From the Trust category:

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. (Steve Jobs)

Steve Jobs - From the Universe category:

I want to put a ding in the universe. (Steve Jobs)

Steve Jobs - From the Vulnerability category:

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)

Steve Jobs - From the Words category:

In most people's vocabularies, design means veneer... interior decorating... the fabric of the curtains, of the sofa. But to me, design is the fundamental soul of a human-made creation that ends up expressing itself in successive outer layers of the product... (Steve Jobs)