Steve Jobs quotes.

All 41 quotations by Steve Jobs in our collection.

“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
“Your time is limited, so don't waste it living someone elses. life. Don't be trapped by dogma - which is living with the results of other people's thinking.”
— Steve Jobs
“Don't let the noise of others opinions drown out your inner voice.”
— Steve Jobs
“Real artists ship.”
— Steve Jobs
“Innovation distinguishes between leaders and followers.”
— Steve Jobs
“Learning to program teaches you how to think. Computer science is a liberal art.”
— Steve Jobs
“Have the courage to follow your heart and intuition. They somehow know what you truly want to become.”
— Steve Jobs
“The only way to do great work is to love what you do.”
— Steve Jobs
“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
“Do you want to spend the rest of your life selling sugared water or do you want a chance to change the world?”
— Steve Jobs
“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
“Most people have no concept of how an automatic transmission works, yet they know how to drive a car. You don't have to study physics to understand the laws of motion to drive a car. You don't have to understand any of this stuff to use Macintosh.”
— Steve Jobs
“Sometimes when you innovate, you make mistakes. It is best to admit them quickly, and get on with improving your other innovations.”
— Steve Jobs
“I have a great respect for incremental improvement, and I've done that sort of thing in my life, but I've always been attracted to the more revolutionary changes. I don't know why. Because they're harder. They're much more stressful emotionally. And you usually go through a period where everybody tells you that you've completely failed.”
— Steve Jobs
“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.”
— Steve Jobs
“We think the Mac will sell zillions, but we didn't build the Mac for anybody else. We built it for ourselves. We were the group of people who were going to judge whether it was great or not. We weren't going to go out and do market research. We just wanted to build the best thing we could build.”
— Steve Jobs
“Don't let the noise of others' opinions drown out your own inner voice.”
— Steve Jobs
“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. ”
— Steve Jobs
“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
“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
“Your time is limited, so don't waste it living someone elses. life.”
— Steve Jobs
“I met Woz when I was 13, at a friend's garage. He was about 18. He was, like, the first person I met who knew more electronics than I did at that point. We became good friends, because we shared an interest in computers and we had a sense of humor. We pulled all kinds of pranks together.”
— Steve Jobs
“It's more fun to be a pirate than to join the navy.”
— Steve Jobs
“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
“Our goal is to make the best devices in the world, not to be the biggest.”
— Steve Jobs
“Quality is more important than quantity. One home run is much better than two doubles.”
— Steve Jobs
“Remembering that you are going to die is the best way I know to avoid the trap of thinking you have something to lose.”
— Steve Jobs
“I'm convinced that about half of what separates the successful entrepreneurs from the non-successful ones is pure perseverance.”
— Steve Jobs
“Innovation distinguishes between a leader and a follower.”
— Steve Jobs
“We've demonstrated a strong track record of being very disciplined with the use of our cash. We don't let it burn a hole in our pocket, we don't allow it to motivate us to do stupid acquisitions. And so I think that we'd like to continue to keep our powder dry, because we do feel that there are one or more strategic opportunities in the future.”
— Steve Jobs
“Death is the best invention of life.”
— Steve Jobs
“The ones who are crazy enough to think they can change the world, are the ones that do.”
— Steve Jobs
“The people who are crazy enough to think they can change the world are the ones who do.”
— Steve Jobs
“Again, 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
“The over-all point is that new technology will not necessarily replace old technology, but it will date it. By definition. Eventually, it will replace it. But it's like people who had black-and-white TVs when color came out. They eventually decided whether or not the new technology was worth the investment.”
— Steve Jobs
“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
“You can't connect the dots looking forward; you can only connect them looking backward”
— Steve Jobs
“Be a yardstick of quality. Some people aren't used to an environment where excellence is expected.”
— Steve Jobs
“Bring a timer.”
— Steve Jobs
“In most people's vocabularies, design means veneer. It's interior decorating. It's the fabric of the curtains and the sofa. But to me, nothing could be further from the meaning of design.”
— Steve Jobs
“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

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