Quotes About Life Steve Jobs

#1. I'll always stay connected with Apple. I hope that throughout my life I'll sort of have the thread of my life and the thread of Apple weave in and out of each other, like a tapestry. There may be a few years when I'm not there, but I'll always come back.

Steve Jobs

#2. In your life you only get to do so many things and right now we've chosen to do this, so let's make it great.

Steve Jobs

#3. Life can be much broader once you discover one simple fact: Everything you call life was made up by people no smarter than you.

Steve Jobs

#4. If today were the last day of your life, would you want to do what you are about to do today?

Steve Jobs

#5. 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

#6. It's rare that you see an artist in his 30s or 40s able to really contribute something amazing.

Steve Jobs

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

Steve Jobs

#8. Don't just live a life; build one.

Steve Jobs

#9. 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

#10. 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

#11. Unfortunately, people are not rebelling against Microsoft. They don't know any better.

Steve Jobs

#12. I was lucky
I found what I love to do early in life,

Steve Jobs

#13. Steve Jobs changed my life. He also changed the life of every designer.

Yves Behar

#14. Do you want to sell sugar water all your life, or do you want to come with me and change the world?

Steve Jobs

#15. The game is an analogy for life: there are not enough chairs or good times to go around, not enough food, not enough joy, nor beds nor jobs nor laughs nor friends nor smiles nor money nor clean air to breathe ... and yet the music goes on.

Steve Toltz

#16. 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.

Steve Jobs

#17. God gave us the senses to let us feel the love in everyone's heart, not the illusions brought about by wealth.

Steve Jobs

#18. I don't mind if people don't like me. Well, I might a little ... but I really mind it when somebody uses their position at Time magazine to tell 10 million people they don't like me. I know what it's like to have your private life painted in the worst possible light in front of a lot of people.

Steve Jobs

#19. Sometimes life hits with a brick in the head, don't lose hope.
-Steve Jobs.

Steve Jobs

#20. I don't think I've ever worked so hard on something, but working on Macintosh was the neatest experience of my life. Almost everyone who worked on it will say that. None of us wanted to release it at the end. It was as though we knew that once it was out of our hands, it wouldn't be ours anymore.

Steve Jobs

#21. Steve Jobs had been known to ask: What are you passionate about in your life? "If this is just a job to you, it's the wrong place,

Carmine Gallo

#22. Follow your heart, Ithilnin," Albirich repeated. "Time is precious. Don't waste it living someone else's life.

Jess C. Scott

#23. Steve Jobs was Galileo in a past life. Discovery was instinctual for him.

Sylvia Browne

#24. Life is short and we're all going to die very soon

Steve Jobs

#25. 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

#26. It comes from saying no to 1,000 things to make sure we don't get on the wrong track or try to do too much.

Steve Jobs

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

Steve Jobs

#28. Death is the destination we all share, no one has ever escaped it. And that is as it should be because death is very likely the single best invention of life.

Steve Jobs

#29. I have enough to last for the rest of my life.

Steve Jobs

#30. If you live each day as it was your last, someday you'll most certainly be right

Steve Jobs

#31. I was lucky - I found what I loved to do early in life. Woz and I started Apple in my parents' garage when I was 20. We worked hard, and in 10 years, Apple had grown from just the two of us in a garage into a $2 billion company with over 4000 employees.

Steve Jobs

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

Steve Jobs

#33. I signed contracts when I didn't know what that meant. I thought I'd get residuals off of the shows I've been on: History Channel, Discovery, Dateline, Johnny Carson, etc. It's the only regret I have in life. If I got residuals, I wouldn't be shucking oysters now, though I do love my job.

Steve Trotter

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

Steve Jobs

#35. What Steve Jobs and I did-and at the same time Bill Gates and Paul Allen did-we had no savings accounts, no friends that could loan us money. But we had ideas, and I wanted all my life to be a part of a revolution.

Steve Wozniak

#36. 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

#37. We don't get a chance to do that many things, and every one should be really excellent. Because this is our life. Life is brief, and then you die, you know? So this is what we've chosen to do with our life.

Steve Jobs

#38. I feel like somebody just punched me in the stomach and knocked all my wind out. I'm only 30 years old and I want to have a chance to continue creating things. I know I've got at least one more great computer in me. And Apple is not going to give me a chance to do that.

Steve Jobs

#39. 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

#40. Be ready to catch the ball when it is thrown by life.

Steve Jobs

#41. I personally admire Steve Jobs not most for what he did, or what he said, but for what he stood for. The largest lesson I learned from Steve was that the joy in life is in the journey, and I saw him live this every day.

Tim Cook

#42. The thing that drives me and my colleagues at both Apple and Pixar is that you see something very compelling to you, and you don't quite know how to get to it, but you know, sometimes intuitively, it's within your grasp. And it's worth putting in years of your life to make it come into existence.

Steve Jobs

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

Steve Jobs

#44. Life is about creating and living experiences that are worth sharing.

Steve Jobs

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

Steve Jobs

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

Steve Jobs

#47. 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

#48. I believe life is an intelligent thing: that things aren't random.

Steve Jobs

#49. Don't let the noise of others' opinions drown out your own inner voice.
[Stanford University commencement speech, 2005]

Steve Jobs

#50. The most successful people in American life are those that have had horrific failures and have come back, done it again and again until they got it right, whether it's Steve Jobs or Bill Gates or Warren Buffet.

Frank Luntz

#51. The things I've done in my life have required a lot of years
of work before they took off.

Steve Jobs

#52. What had been the focus of my entire adult life was gone, and it was devastating. I didn't really know what to do for a few months. I felt that I had let the previous generation of entrepreneurs down ... I was a very public failure.

Steve Jobs

#53. I had designed -in high school designed hundreds and hundreds of computers over and over and over, so I developed these skills without ever thinking I'd do it in life as job.

Steve Wozniak

#54. You know, I've got a plan that could rescue Apple. I can't say any more than that it's the perfect product and the perfect strategy for Apple. But nobody there will listen to me.

Steve Jobs

#55. I read the Steve Jobs book, and that kind of changed everything. I've been, like, an Apple geek my whole life and have always seen him as a hero. But reading the book, and learning about how he built the company, and maintaining that corporate culture and all that, I think that influenced me a lot.

G-Eazy

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

Steve Jobs

#57. 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.

Steve Jobs

#58. My demon is hating to have to do a regular day job. Being up on stage really helps me forget I have a life like that - when I did have a life like that. I find complete contentment and happiness when I'm playing in front of an audience.

Steve "Lips" Kudlow

#59. I was voluntarily poor when I was in college and India, and I lived a pretty simple life when I was working. So I went from fairly poor, which was wonderful because I didn't have to worry about money, to being incredibly rich, when i also didn't have to worry about money.' - Steve Jobs

Walter Isaacson

#60. I'm the only person I know that's lost a quarter of a billion dollars in one year. It's very character-building.

Steve Jobs

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

Steve Jobs

#62. I don't think of my life as a career. I do stuff. I respond to stuff. That's not a career - it's a life!

Steve Jobs

#63. If you live in a ghetto and really want not to just change your life and your family's life but change your ghetto's life, make your ghetto a good neighbourhood, learn science; try to be like Mark Zuckerberg, Bill Gates and Steve Jobs.

Will.i.am

#64. Does anybody think Steve Jobs should not be in the 1 percent? He made life better for the 99 percent of the rest of us. You want to create opportunities for people with their unique gifts.

Clark Durant

#65. You know what, Steve Jobs is real nice to me. He lets me be an employee and that's one of the biggest honors of my life.

Steve Wozniak

#66. Pursue your dreams and see the opportunities in life's setbacks.

Steve Jobs

#67. 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.

Steve Jobs

#68. Sometimes life hits you in the head with a brick. Don't lose faith.

Steve Jobs

#69. Don't be trapped by dogma - which is living with the results of other people's thinking.

Steve Jobs

#70. Life can be much broader. You can embrace it, change it, improve it, make your mark upon it.

Steve Jobs