Top 100 Steve Jobs Quotes

#1. Oh wow. Oh wow. Oh wow.

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#2. Creativity is just connecting things.

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#3. 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.

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#4. And I sort of look at us as two of the luckiest guys [Bill Gates the other] on the planet because we found what we loved to do and we were at the right place at the right time and we've gotten to go to work every day with super bright people for 30 years and do what we love doing.

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#5. Everyone here has the sense that right now is one of those moments when we are influencing the future.

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#6. The most important thing is a person. A person who incites your curiosity and feeds your curiosity; and machines cannot do that in the same way that people can.

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#7. 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.

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#8. I'm as proud of what we don't do as I am of what we do.

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#9. That's what makes great products. It's not process-it's content.

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#10. Everything is important- that success is in the details.

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#11. He not busy being born is busy dying

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#12. Mac OS X Tiger will come out long before Longhorn.

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#13. I think death is the most wonderful invention of life. It purges the system of these old models that are obsolete.

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#14. I admire Mark Zuckerberg ... for not selling out, for wanting to make a company. I admire that a lot.

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#15. I buy everything from CostCo. It's great; they've got everything I need.

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#16. Probably death is the best invention of life.

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#17. 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.

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#18. I get asked a lot why Apple's customers are so loyal. It's not because they belong to the Church of Mac! That's ridiculous.

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#19. When you have feelings like sadness or anger about your cancer or your plight, to mask them is to lead an artificial life.

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#20. Each year has been so robust with problems and successes and learning experiences and human experienes that a year is a lifetime at Apple. So this has been ten lifetimes.

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#21. If today were the last day of my life, would I want to do what I'm about to do today ?

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#22. We try to use the talents we do have to express our deep feelings, to show our appreciation of all the contributions that came before us, and to add something to that flow. That's what's driven me.

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#23. The mark of an innovative company is not only that it comes up with new ideas first, but also that it knows how to leapfrog when it finds itself behind.

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#24. You should never go to a meeting or make a telephone call without a clear idea of what you are trying to achieve.

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#25. If I knew in 1986 how much it was going to cost to keep Pixar going, I doubt if I would have bought the company.

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#26. Nobody has tried to swallow us since I've been here. I think they are afraid how we would taste.

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#27. The reason that Apple is able to create products like the iPad is because we've always tried to be at the intersection of technology and the liberal arts.

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#28. The lunatics have taken over the asylum and we can do anything we want.

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#29. Woz is living his own life now. He hasn't been around Apple for about five years. But what he did will go down in history.

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#30. Don't just follow your passion but something larger than yourself.

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#31. One: demonstrations always crash. And two: the probability of them crashing goes up exponentially with the number of people watching.

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#32. 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.

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#33. I know from my own education that if I hadn't encountered two or three individuals that spent extra time with me, I'm sure I would have been in jail.

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#34. Your time on this earth is limited, don't live someone else's life, live by your vision

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#35. You've got to find what you love.

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#36. I just had a romance that I really care about, a lot-I mean, a lot-go up in smoke. Because of the stress, and the sort of other woman that Macintosh is.

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#37. We've gone through the operating system and looked at everything and asked how can we simplify this and make it more powerful at the same time.

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#38. 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.

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#39. Apple has some tremendous assets, but I believe without some attention, the company could, could, could - I'm searching for the right word - could, could die.

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#40. It's not about charisma and personality, it's about results and products and those very bedrock things that are why people at Apple and outside of Apple are getting more excited about the company and what Apple stands for and what its potential is to contribute to the industry.

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#41. Sometimes life hits you like a brick in the face. Don't give up.

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#42. Finally Jobs proposed Apple Computer. "I was on one of my fruitarian diets," he explained. "I had just come back from the apple farm. It sounded fun, spirited, and not intimidating. Apple took the edge off the word 'computer.' Plus, it would get us ahead of Atari in the phone book

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#43. I'm not worried about the country's long-term future. This country is insanely great. What I'm worried about is that we don't talk enough about solutions.

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#44. And one more thing.

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#45. The day I was born songs were on records, phones were tied down, computers needed rooms and the web was fiction. Change the world. You can.

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#46. For most of my life, I've felt that there must be more to our existence than meets the eye.
This is who I am, and you can't expect me to be someone I'm not.

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#47. Get closer than ever to your customers. So close that you tell them what they need well before they realize it themselves

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#48. The problem is I'm older now, I'm 40 years old, and this stuff doesn't change the world. It really doesn't.

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#49. Our goal is to make the best devices in the world, not to be the biggest.

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#50. 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.

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#51. If you define the problem correctly, you almost have the solution.

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#52. Stay hungry. Stay foolish.

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#53. 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.

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#54. We hire people who want to make the best things in the world.

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#55. The web is just going to be one more of those major change factors that businesses face every decade.

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#56. 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.

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#57. A brand is simply trust.

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#58. The real art is knowing what to leave out, not what to put in.

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#59. Things don't have to change the world to be important.

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#60. Innovation distinguishes between a leader and a follower.

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#61. Let them know precisely what you are going to do with their data

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#62. I think Pixar has the opportunity to be the next Disney
not replace Disney
but be the next Disney.

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#63. Computers are like a bicycle for the mind.

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#64. If you tell people they can't burn CDs of their music, as almost every current legal music service has done, or they can only burn one CD with a track or pay per track per burn extra, nobody is going to go for it.

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#65. Details matter, it's worth waiting to get it right.

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#66. The most important decisions you make are not the things you do, but the things you decide not to do.

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#67. I'm sorry, it's true. Having children really changes your view on these things. We're born, we live for a brief instant, and we die. It's been happening for a long time. Technology is not changing it much - if at all.

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#68. Focusing is about saying No.

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#69. Be a yardstick of quality. Some people aren't used to an environment where excellence is expected.

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#70. This is a very noisy world, so we have to be very clear what we want them to know about us

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#71. After all the statistics and calculations are formulated, the one element that breathes life into marketing is good design.

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#72. Our friends up north spend over five billion dollars on research and development and all they seem to do is copy Google and Apple.

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#73. Each dream you leave behind is a part of your future that will no longer exist.

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#74. There are times when you run a marathon and you wonder, Why am I doing this? But you take a drink of water, and around the next bend, you get your wind back, remember the finish line, and keep going.

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#75. People need to have the incentive that if they invest and succeed, they can make a fair profit. Otherwise they'll stop investing.

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#76. To have your whole music library with you at all times is a quantum leap in listening to music. How do we possibly do this?

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#77. 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.

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#78. We don't settle for anything less than excellence.

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#79. It was one of those sort of apocalyptic moments. I remember within ten minutes of seeing the graphical user interface stuff, just knowing that every computer would work this way someday. It was so obvious once you saw it. It didn't require tremendous intellect. It was so clear.

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#80. Everything around you that you call life was made up by people, and you can change it.

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#81. Put a dent in the universe.

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#82. Your customers dream of a happier and better life. Don't move products. Instead, enrich lives.

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#83. 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.

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#84. Ad campaigns are necessary for competition. But good PR educates people; that's all it is.

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#85. Pretty much, Apple and Dell are the only ones in this industry making money. They make it by being Wal-Mart. We make it by innovation.

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#86. 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.

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#87. My philosophy is that everything starts with a great product.

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#88. Innovation is usually the result of connections of past experiences. But if you have the same experiences as everyone else, you are unlikely to look in a different direction.

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#89. Never settle for average

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#90. 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.

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#91. No one is going to buy a big phone.

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#92. Focus is saying no to 1,000 good ideas.

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#93. We're not a media company. We don't own media. We don't own music. We don't own films or television. We're not a media company. We're just Apple.

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#94. Innovation has nothing to do with how many R & D dollars you have. When Apple came up with the Mac, IBM was spending at least 100 times more on R & D. It's not about money. It's about the people you have, how you're led, and how much you get it.

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#95. All the work I've done in my life will be obsolete by the time I'm fifty.

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#96. Don't be evil is a load of crap.

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#97. I can help the next generation remember the lineage of great companies here and how to continue the tradition. The Valley has been very supportive of me. I should do my best to repay.

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#98. But innovation comes from people meeting up in the hallways or calling each other at 10:30 at night with a new idea, or because they realized something that shoots holes in how we've been thinking about a problem.

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#99. It is piracy, not overt online music stores, which is our main competitor.

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#100. I think money is a wonderful thing because it enables you to do things. It enables you to invest in ideas that don't have a short-term payback.

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