Selected Quotes By Steve Jobs
"Design is not just what it looks like and feels like. Design is how it works."
Steve Jobs, Ideas
"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, Ideas
"The minute that you understand that you can poke life and actually something will pop out the other side, that you can change it, you can mold it."
Steve Jobs, Life
"People who know what they’re talking about don’t need PowerPoint."
Steve Jobs, Business
"I think all of us need to be on guard against arrogance which knocks at the door whenever you’re successful."
Steve Jobs, Arrogance, Success
"Don’t get hung up on who owns the idea. Pick the best one, and let’s go."
Steve Jobs, Ideas
"In the broadest context, the goal is to seek enlightenment – however you define it."
Steve Jobs, Goals
"We are very careful about what features we add because we can’t take them away."
Steve Jobs, Business
"The greatest thing is when you do put your heart and soul into something over an extended period of time, and it is worth it."
Steve Jobs, Goals
"I’m convinced that the only thing that kept me going was that I loved what I did. You’ve got to find what you love."
Steve Jobs, Goals, Love
"Believing that the dots will connect down the road will give you the confidence to follow your heart."
Steve Jobs, Life
"You have to trust in something, your gut, destiny, life, karma, whatever."
Steve Jobs, Life
"The most powerful person in business is the storyteller."
Steve Jobs, Business
"I decided to drop out and trust that it would all work out okay."
Steve Jobs, Management
"If you want it, you can fly, you just have to trust you a lot."
Steve Jobs, Goals
"Without death, there would be very little progress."
Steve Jobs, Life, Death
"I think the things you most regret in life are things you didn’t do. What you really regret was never asking that girl to dance."
Steve Jobs, Goals, Life
"The products suck! There’s no sex in them anymore!"
Steve Jobs, Business, Sex
"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, Success, Goals
"Once you discover one simple fact, and that is everything around you that you call life, was made up by people that were no smarter than you."
Steve Jobs, Intelligence/Wisdom, Life
"I’m convinced that about half of what separates successful entrepreneurs from the non-successful ones is pure perseverance."
Steve Jobs, Business, Success
"Innovation distinguishes between a leader and a follower."
Steve Jobs, Management, Science
"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, Wealth, Time
"We’re here to put a dent in the universe. Otherwise why else even be here?"
Steve Jobs, Goals
"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."
Steve Jobs, Life
"The people who are crazy enough to think they can change the world are the ones who do."
Steve Jobs, Goals
"It doesn’t make sense to hire good people and tell them what to do; we hire good people so they can tell us what to do."
Steve Jobs, Management
"I’ve been rejected, but I am still in love."
Steve Jobs, Love
"I always advise people – Don’t wait! Do something when you are young, when you have nothing to lose, and keep that in mind."
Steve Jobs, Goals, Time
"If you’re gonna make connections that are innovative, you have to not have the same bag of experience as everyone else does."
Steve Jobs, Business, Goals
"You should never start a company with the goal of getting rich. Your goal should be making something you believe in and making a company that will last."
Steve Jobs, Business, Goals
"You get your wind back, remember the finish line, and keep going."
Steve Jobs, Goals
"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, Courage, Goals
"Things don’t have to change the world to be important."
Steve Jobs, Goals
"I think different religions are different doors to the same house. Sometimes I think the house exists, and sometimes I don’t. It’s the great mystery."
Steve Jobs, Belief
"If you don’t love it, you’re going to fail."
Steve Jobs, Success
"Creativity is just connecting things."
Steve Jobs, Intelligence/Wisdom
"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, Goals
"I’m actually as proud of many of the things we haven’t done as the things we have done."
Steve Jobs, Goals
"No one wants to die. Even people who want to go to heaven don’t want to die to get there."
Steve Jobs, Death
"The doers are the major thinkers. The people that really create the things that change this industry are both the thinker and doer in one person."
Steve Jobs, Business
"I think death is the most wonderful invention of life. It purges the system of these old models that are obsolete."
Steve Jobs, Life, Death
"There is a tremendous amount of craftsmanship between a great idea and a great product."
Steve Jobs, Business
"You can build your own things that other people can use. And once you learn that, you’ll never be the same again."
Steve Jobs, Business, Goals
"If today were the last day of your life, would you want to do what you are about to do today?"
Steve Jobs, Goals
"One way to remember who you are is to remember who your heroes are."
Steve Jobs, Life
"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, Life
"When you need a miracle, be miracle."
Steve Jobs, Goals
"Most people don’t get those experiences because they never ask. I’ve never found anybody that didn’t want to help me if I asked them for help."
Steve Jobs, Life
"I do not adopt softness towards others because I want to make them better."
Steve Jobs, Management
"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, Technology, Goals
"Get closer than ever to your customers. So close that you tell them what they need well before they realize it themselves."
Steve Jobs, Business, Goals
"Details matter, it’s worth waiting to get it right."
Steve Jobs, Management
"For you to sleep well at night, the aesthetic, the quality, has to be carried all the way through."
Steve Jobs, Life
"I don’t care about being right. I care about success and doing the right thing."
Steve Jobs, Success
"Stay hungry. Stay foolish."
Steve Jobs, Goals
"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, Goals
"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, Goals
"Be a yardstick of quality. Some people aren’t used to an environment where excellence is expected."
Steve Jobs, Goals
"Life goes on and you learn from it."
Steve Jobs, Life, Intelligence/Wisdom
"If you live each day as it was your last, someday you’ll most certainly be right."
Steve Jobs, Life
"Sometimes when you innovate, you make mistakes. It is best to admit them quickly, and get on with improving your other innovations."
Steve Jobs, Mistakes, Goals
"Don’t let the noise of others’ opinions drown out your own inner voice."
Steve Jobs, Criticism
"The only way to do great work is to love what you do."
Steve Jobs, Work, Love
"Let’s go invent tomorrow rather than worrying about what happened yesterday."
Steve Jobs, Time, Goals
"I think the things you regret most in life are the things you didn’t do."
Steve Jobs, Life, Goals
"Sometimes life hits you in the head with a brick. Don’t lose faith."
Steve Jobs, Life, Problems
"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."
Steve Jobs, Life
"Your time is limited, so don’t waste it living someone else’s life."