Quotes Compiled - Steve Jobs "Every once in a while, a revolutionary product comes along that changes everything." ~~ Steve Jobs If you are working on something exciting that you really care about, you don't have to be pushed. The vision pulls you." ~~ Steve Jobs "The system is that there is no system. That doesn't mean we don't have process. Apple is a very disciplined company, and we have great processes. But that's not what it's about. Process makes you more efficient." ~~ Steve Jobs "People need to have the incentive that if they invest and succeed, they can make a fair profit. Otherwise they'll stop investing." ~~ Steve Jobs "The lunatics have taken over the asylum and we can do anything we want." ~~ Steve Jobs "You need to have a collaborative hiring process." ~~ Steve Jobs "Make it like a sunflower." ~~ Steve Jobs "Simplicity is the ultimate sophistication ~~ Steve Jobs turned this into the slogan behind an early Mac advertising campaign. Which doesn't make it less true." ~~ Steve Jobs "A lot of people think big business in America is a bad thing. I think it's a really good thing. Most people in business are ethical, hard-working, good people. And it's a meritocracy." ~~ Steve Jobs "My job is to make the whole executive team good enough to be successors, so that's what I try to do." ~~ Steve Jobs "Don't be afraid, you can do it." ~~ 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 "The engineering is long gone in most PC companies. In the consumer electronics companies, they don't understand the software parts of it. And so you really can't make the products that you can make at Apple anywhere else right now. Apple's the only company that has everything under one roof." ~~ Steve Jobs "When you have feelings like sadness or anger about your cancer or your plight, to mask them is to lead an artificial life." ~~ Steve Jobs "If you define the problem correctly, you almost have the solution." ~~ Steve Jobs "Every once in a while a revolutionary product comes along that changes everything. It's very fortunate if you can work on just one of these in your career. Apple's been very fortunate in that it's introduced a few of these." ~~ Steve Jobs "Focus does not mean saying yes, it means saying no." ~~ Steve Jobs "I end up not buying a lot of things, because I find them ridiculous." ~~ Steve Jobs "I'm not dismissing the value of higher education; I'm simply saying it comes at the expense of experience." ~~ Steve Jobs "Many companies forget what it means to make great products. After initial success, sales and marketing people take over and the product people eventually make their way out." ~~ Steve Jobs "One way to drive fear out of a relationship is to realize that your partner's values are the same as yours, that what you care about is exactly what they care about. In my opinion, that drives fear out and makes for a great partnership, whether it's a corporate partnership or a marriage." ~~ Steve Jobs "Some people can do one thing magnificently, like Michelangelo, and others make things like semiconductors or build 747 airplanes ' that type of work requires legions of people. In order to do things well, that can't be done by one person, you must find extraordinary people." ~~ Steve Jobs "I know that living with me was not a bowl of cherries." ~~ Steve Jobs "Companies must have a noble cause, and it's the leaders job to transform that noble cause into such an inspiring vision, that it will attract the most talented people in the world to want to join it." ~~ Steve Jobs "Life can be much broader. You can embrace it, change it, improve it, make your mark upon it." ~~ Steve Jobs "Great things in business are never done by one person, they're done by a team of people." ~~ Steve Jobs "Your customers dream of a happier and better life. Don't move products. Instead, enrich lives." ~~ Steve Jobs "Manage the top line: your strategy, your people, and your products, and the bottom line will follow." ~~ Steve Jobs "The customer is the final inspector." ~~ Steve Jobs "We're here to make a dent in the universe. Otherwise, why even be here? We're creating a completely new consciousness, like an artist or a poet. That's how you have to think of this. We're rewriting the history of human thought with what we're doing." ~~ Steve Jobs "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 "I hate it when people call themselves 'entrepreneurs' when what they're really trying to do is launch a startup and then sell of go public, so they can cash in and move on. They're unwilling to do the work it takes to build a real company, which is the hardest work in business." ~~ Steve Jobs "In most cases, strengths and weaknesses are two sides of the same coin. A strength in one situation is a weakness in another, yet often the person can't switch gears. It's a very subtle thing to talk about strengths and weaknesses because almost always they're the same thing." ~~ Steve Jobs "I think the biggest innovations of the 21st century will be at the intersection of biology and technology. A new era is beginning." ~~ Steve Jobs "And we've all chosen to do this with our lives. So it better be damn good. It better be worth it." ~~ Steve Jobs "You can't connect the dots looking forward; you can only connect them looking backwards." ~~ Steve Jobs "I would rather gamble on our vision than make a 'me, too' product." ~~ Steve Jobs "Don't be evil is a load of crap." ~~ Steve Jobs "The most important thing is a person. A person who incites your Searchity and feeds your Searchity; and machines cannot do that in the same way that people can." ~~ Steve Jobs "Everybody in this country should learn how to program a computer, because it teaches you how to think." ~~ Steve Jobs "Listen to me. We're here to make a dent in the universe. Otherwise why even be here?" ~~ Steve Jobs "When you first start off trying to solve a problem, the first solutions you come up with are very complex, and most people stop there. But if you keep going, and live with the problem and peel more layers of the onion off, you can often times arrive at some very elegant and simple solutions." ~~ Steve Jobs "We don't settle for anything less than excellence." ~~ Steve Jobs "You've got to start with the customer experience and work backwards to the technology. You can't start with the technology and try to figure out where you're going to sell it." ~~ 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 "Get closer than ever to your customers. So close that you tell them what they need well before they realize it themselves." ~~ Steve Jobs "Sometimes life hits you in the head with a brick. Don't lose faith." ~~ Steve Jobs "Click. Boom. Amazing!" ~~ Steve Jobs "Great art stretches the taste, it doesn't follow tastes." ~~ Steve Jobs "We're not going to be the first to this party, but we're going to be the best." ~~ Steve Jobs "The heaviness of being successful was replaced by the lightness of being a beginner again." ~~ Steve Jobs "Do your best at every job. Don't sleep! Success generates more success so be hungry for it. Hire good people with a passion for excellence." ~~ Steve Jobs "Management is about persuading people to do things they do not want to do, while leadership is about inspiring people to do things they never thought they could." ~~ Steve Jobs "Start small, think big. Don't worry about too many things at once. Take a handful of simple things to begin with, and then progress to more complex ones. Think about not just tomorrow, but the future. Put a ding in the universe." ~~ Steve Jobs "I've been rejected, but I am still in love." ~~ Steve Jobs "I'm convinced that about half of what separates the successful entrepreneurs from the non-successful ones is pure perseverance." ~~ Steve Jobs Featured in: Inspirational Entrepreneurship Quotes, Startup Quotes "Each dream you leave behind is a part of your future that will no longer exist." ~~ Steve Jobs "A brand is simply trust." ~~ Steve Jobs "Everything around you that you call life was made up by people that were no smarter than you and you can change it, you can influence it, you can build your own things that other people can use." ~~ Steve Jobs "You've got to find what you love." ~~ Steve Jobs "Whatever you do, you must never let the voice in your head control the brain in your heart." ~~ Steve Jobs "My job is not to be easy on people. My job is to take these great people we have and to push them and make them even better." ~~ Steve Jobs "Innovation is not about saying yes to everything. It's about saying no to all but the most crucial features." ~~ 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 "Innovation is the ability to see change as an opportunity ' not a threat." ~~ Steve Jobs "It doesn't make sense to hire smart people and tell them what to do; we hire smart people so they can tell us what to do." ~~ Steve Jobs "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 "What we are doing here is going to send a giant ripple through the universe." ~~ Steve Jobs "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 "If you don't have a passion, you'll give up." ~~ Steve Jobs "Have the courage to follow your heart and intuition." ~~ Steve Jobs "Real artists ship." ~~ Steve Jobs Featured in: Inspirational Entrepreneurship Quotes, Startup Quotes "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 "Never settle for average." ~~ Steve Jobs "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 "To go forward you have to leave something behind." ~~ Steve Jobs "Be a yardstick of quality. Some people aren't used to an environment where excellence is expected." ~~ Steve Jobs "Things don't have to change the world to be important." ~~ Steve Jobs "Design is not just what it looks like and feels like. Design is how it works." ~~ Steve Jobs "If you live each day as it was your last, someday you'll most certainly be right." ~~ Steve Jobs "Sometimes life's going to hit you in the head with a brick. Don't lose faith. I'm convinced that the only thing that kept me going was that I loved what I did." ~~ Steve Jobs "Details matter, it's worth waiting to get it right." ~~ Steve Jobs "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 "You have to be burning with an idea, or a problem, or a wrong that you want to right. If you're not passionate enough from the start, you'll never stick it out." ~~ Steve Jobs "Learn continually. There's always 'one more thing' to learn." ~~ Steve Jobs "A lot of times, people don't know what they want until you show it to them." ~~ Steve Jobs "Think Different." ~~ Steve Jobs "Your time is limited, so don't waste it living someone else's life." ~~ Steve Jobs "Focusing is about saying No." ~~ Steve Jobs "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." ~~ Steve Jobs "Innovation is the only way to win." ~~ Steve Jobs "The journey is the reward." ~~ Steve Jobs "Don't let the noise of others' opinions drown out your own inner voice." ~~ Steve Jobs "'Why join the navy if you can be a pirate?" ~~ Steve Jobs "Deciding what not to do is as important as deciding what to do." ~~ Steve Jobs "Deciding what not to do is as important as deciding what to do." ~~ Steve Jobs "Creativity is just connecting things." ~~ Steve Jobs "Follow your heart and your intuition. They somehow already know what you truly want to become. Everything else is secondary." ~~ Steve Jobs "The people who are crazy enough to think they can change the world are the ones who do." ~~ Steve Jobs You cannot connect the dots looking forward; you can only connects them looking backwards. ~~ Steve Jobs "The ones that are successful loved what they did, so they could persevere, when it got really tough." ''Steve Jobs 'We're here to put a dent in the universe. Otherwise why else even be here?' ~~ Steve Jobs '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. ~~ Steve Jobs // https://quotefancy.com/steve-jobs-quotes