Quotes About Money Steve Jobs

#1. 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

#2. If you put down a list of jobs, doctor, lawyer, janitor, teacher or movie star, everybody would pick the movie star. And why? So you could lie around the pool, drink margaritas and send money to your parents. So that's what I did.

Steve Guttenberg

#3. 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.

Steve Jobs

#4. That's what Walt Disney did, and Hewlett and Packard, and the people who built Intel. They created a company to last, not just to make money. That's what I want Apple to be.

Steve Jobs

#5. Spread the seeds of encouragement far and wide, and delight in the bountiful harvest that they will surely bring.

Ralph Marston

#6. Have you realized that today is the tomorrow you talked about yesterday? It is your responsibility to change your life for the better.

Jaachynma N.E. Agu

#7. You know, my main reaction to this money thing is that it's humorous, all the attention to it, because it's hardly the most insightful or valuable thing that's happened to me.

Steve Jobs

#8. I recognize the unknowing, involuntary effect that 'Facts of Life' had and continues to have on several generations of people.

Kim Fields

#9. I was worth about over a million dollars when I was 23 and over ten million dollars when I was 24, and over a hundred million dollars when I was 25 and ... it wasn't that important - because I never did it for the money.

Steve Jobs

#10. It was important that I became successful. People say they do it for the love, and yes, you do it for the love, but you want to be successful.

Wyclef Jean

#11. 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.

Steve Jobs

#12. 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.

Steve Jobs

#13. 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

#14. Now is the month of Maying,
When merry lads are playing.
Fa la la ...
Each with his bonny lass,
upon the greeny grass.
Fa la la ...
The Spring clad all in gladness,
Doth laugh at winter's sadness.
Fa la la ...

Thomas Morley

#15. To allow lust (or strong desires) to govern our life is to exalt our will over God's.

Dallas Willard

#16. There is no joy equal to that of being able to work for all humanity and doing what you're doing well.

R. Buckminster Fuller

#17. I used to sleep on the floor in friends' rooms, returning Coke
bottles for food, money, and getting weekly free meals at a local temple

Steve Jobs

#18. 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

#19. Disarming behavior, where you have two sides involved in a conflict that everybody has stereotypes of the evil other side that is convinced that they would never ever do something reasonable. If a leader on one of those sides were to defy those stereotypes then it would change everything.

Guy Burgess

#20. I think the world's a better place because Bill realized that his goal isn't to be the richest guy in the cemetery, right?

Steve Jobs

#21. 'With God all things are possible' (Mk. 10:27). With God the thought itself is deed. He speaks and it is. Short and clear. And all the worlds stand by the Word of God.

John Of Kronstadt

#22. He'd passed "ready" about three exits back.

Piper Vaughn

#23. I created jobs and saved the taxpayers money on every road I built.

Steve King

#24. Why do you compare yourself to anyone else? To strangers, to what you think Tyler wants? Why can't you just accept who you are and who he is and let that be enough?

Staci Hart

#25. I was lucky to get into computers when it was a very young and idealistic industry. There weren't many degrees offered in computer science, so people in computers were brilliant people from mathematics, physics, music, zoology, whatever. They loved it, and no one was really in it for the money.

Steve Jobs

#26. Hard labor jobs are a poor strategy for acquiring money, but they do garner respect. Self-made millionaires know getting rich has little to do with intelligence and everything to do with focus and persistence.

Steve Siebold

#27. 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

#28. [My teacher] basically bribed me back into learning with candy and money and what was really remarkable was before very long I had such a respect for her that it sort of re-ignited my desire to learn.

Steve Jobs