Steve Jobs Quotes
And we've all chosen to do this with our lives. So it better be damn good. It better be worth it.
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.
I'm going to destroy Android, because it's a stolen product. I'm willing to go thermonuclear war on this.
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?
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.
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.
I found that there were these incredibly great people at doing certain things, and you couldn't replace one of these people with fifty average people.
But Apple really beats to a different drummer. I used to say that Apple should be the Sony of this business, but in reality, I think Apple should be the Apple of this business.
The seven-inch tablets are tweeners: too big to compete with a smartphone, and too small to compete with an iPad.
Pixar is the most technically advanced creative company; Apple is the most creatively advanced technical company.
No one wants to die. Even people who want to go to heaven don't want to die to get there.
You‘ve got to start with the customer experience and work back toward the technology - not the other way around.
In the first 30 years of your life, you make your habits. For the last 30 years of your life, your habits make you.
Manage the top line: your strategy, your people, and your products, and the bottom line will follow.
If you want to live your life in a creative way, as an artist, you have to not look back too much. You have to be willing to take whatever you've done and whoever you were and throw them away.
You are all over the map, figure out the top 5 things you want to focus on and get rid of the rest.
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.
You cannot mandate productivity, you must provide the tools to let people become their best.
Simple can be harder than complex. You have to work hard to get your thinking clean to make it simple.
The best way to create value in the 21st century is to connect Creativity with Technology
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.
Stay Hungry. Stay Foolish. And I have always wished that for myself. And now, as you graduate to begin anew, I wish that for you.
Everybody in this country should learn how to program a computer, because it teaches you how to think.
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.
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.
For you to sleep well at night, the aesthetic, the quality, has to be carried all the way through.
Sometimes when you innovate, you make mistakes. It is best to admit them quickly, and get on with improving your other innovations.
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.
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.
It's really hard to design products by focus groups. A lot of times, people don't know what they want until you show it to them.
Shake off this erroneous notion that life is there and you're just gonna live in it, versus embrace it, change it, improve it, make your mark upon it.
