Top 100 Quotes About Steve Jobs
#1. Let's go invent tomorrow instead of worrying about what happened yesterday.
Steve Jobs
#2. The web is not going to change the world, certainly not in the next 10 years. It's going to augment the world. And once you're in this web-augmented space, you're going to see that democratization takes place.
Steve Jobs
#3. I'll watch movies I like to see, Steve Jobs interviews, something that's going to make me smart and then go to sleep.
Jaden Smith
#4. So the fact that the first movie about Steve Jobs was made by a guy who was completely entrepreneurial and outside the film industry, I think is very appropriate.
Joshua Michael Stern
#5. I hate the way people use PowerPoints instead of thinking
Steve Jobs
#6. The thing that bound us together at Apple was the ability to make things that were going to change the world. That was very important.
Steve Jobs
#7. Every child should learn to program a computer because it will teach you how to think.
Steve Jobs
#8. I am saddened, not by Microsoft's success - I have no problem with their success. They've earned their success, for the most part. I have a problem with the fact that they just make really third-rate products.
Steve Jobs
#9. You'll see more and more perfection of that - computer as servant. But the next thing is going to be computer as a guide or agent.
Steve Jobs
#10. I think I do myself a disservice by comparing myself to Steve Jobs and Walt Disney and human beings that we've seen before. It should be more like Willy Wonka ... and welcome to my chocolate factory.
Kanye West
#11. 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
#12. A small team of A+ players can run circles around a giant team of B and C players.
Steve Jobs
#13. Finally, on the day that he was scheduled to make the big announcement, Amelio called Jobs in. He needed an answer. Steve, do you just want
Walter Isaacson
#14. If you are working on something exciting that you really care about, you don't have to be pushed. The vision pulls you.
Steve Jobs
#15. The best way to create value in the 21st century is to connect Creativity with Technology
Steve Jobs
#17. My girlfriend always laughs during sex - no matter what she's reading.
Steve Jobs
#18. 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
#19. The biggest effect of the personal computer revolution has been to allow millions and millions of people to experience computers themselves decades before they ever would have in the old paradigm.
Steve Jobs
#20. There's nothing nice about Steve Jobs and there's nothing evil about Bill Gates
Chuck Peddle
#21. You have to give credit where credit's due. Steve [Jobs] has been probably the single hardware/software forward-looking thinker and executor in our lifetime as an individual. He's quite a brilliant innovator.
Christopher Galvin
#22. I think the biggest mistake most people make when they pick their first job is they don't worry enough about whether they'll love the work, and they worry more about whether it's good experience
Steve Ballmer
#23. I try to get people to see what I have ... When you run a computer company, you have to get people to buy into your dreams.
Steve Jobs
#24. What we're doing here will send a giant ripple through the universe.
Steve Jobs
#26. Creativity is just connecting things.
Steve Jobs
#27. Steve Jobs was a great friend as well as a trusted advisor. His legacy will extend far beyond the products he created or the businesses he built. It will be the millions of people he inspired, the lives he changed, and the culture he defined.
Bob Iger
#28. Microsoft's philosophy is to get it out there and fix it later. Steve [Jobs] would never do that. He doesn't get anything out there until it is perfected.
John Sculley
#29. People don't know what they want until you show it to them. That's why I never rely on marketing research. Our task is to read things that are not yet on the page.
Steve Jobs
#30. I'd say we [Apple Inc.] are the most creative of the technology companies and definitely the most artist-friendly. Almost everyone in the music business uses a Mac and everyone has an iPod.
Steve Jobs
#31. [In school] I encountered authority of a different kind than I had ever encountered before, and I did not like it. And they really almost got me. They came close to really beating any curiosity out of me.
Steve Jobs
#32. 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
#33. Sometimes, to relieve stress, he would soak his feet in the toilet, a practice that was not as soothing for his collegues.
Walter Isaacson
#34. We're just enthusiastic about what we do.
Steve Jobs
#35. The childhood that Paul and Clara Jobs created for their new son was, in many ways, a stereotype of the late 1950s. When Steve was two they adopted a girl they named Patty, and three years later they moved to a tract house in the suburbs.
Walter Isaacson
#36. We made the iPod for ourselves, and when you're doing something for yourself, or your best friend or family, you're not going to cheese out. If you don't love something, you're not going to go the extra mile, work the extra weekend, challenge the status quo as much.
Walter Isaacson
#37. If you want to hire great people and have them stay, you have to be run by ideas, not hierarchy. The best ideas have to win.
Steve Jobs
#38. Steve Jobs had a tendency to see things in a binary way: A person was either a hero or a bozo, a product was either amazing or shit
Walter Isaacson
#39. You can't look at the competition and say you're going to do it better. You have to look at the competition and say you're going to do it differently.
Steve Jobs
#40. What we want to do is make a leapfrog product that is way smarter than any mobile device has ever been, and super-easy to use. This is what iPhone is. OK? So, we're going to reinvent the phone.
Steve Jobs
#42. The things I've done in my life have required a lot of years
of work before they took off.
Steve Jobs
#43. Sentences I never thought I would write. (1) That John Prescott certainly has a way with the ladies. (2) Give it to Steve McClaren, he seems like the man for the England job. (3) Peter Crouch is the man to replace Rooney.
Martin Samuel
#44. 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
#45. Many companies forget what it means to make great products. After initial success, sales and marketing people take over and the product people eventually make their way out.
Steve Jobs
#46. [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
#47. I'm one of those people that think Thomas Edison and the light bulb changed the world more than Karl Marx ever did.
Steve Jobs
#48. I want to put a ding in the universe.
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. It had not yet been named Silicon Valley, but you had the defense industry, you had Hewlett-Packard. But you also had the counter-culture, the Bay Area. That entire brew came together in Steve Jobs.
Erik Qualman
#51. If you didn't voice your opinion, [Steve Jobs] would mow you down," said Cook. "He takes contrary positions to create more discussion, because it may lead to a better result. So if you don't feel comfortable disagreeing, then you'll never survive.
Walter Isaacson
#52. 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.
Steve Jobs
#53. 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.
Steve Jobs
#54. The reason companies work is because you're able to get a lot of people doing the work; it's not because of this visionary. Steve Jobs didn't make Apple; it was a bunch of people. The building of the right team is an art in and of its own right.
D.A. Wallach
#55. There are sneakers that cost more than an iPod.
Steve Jobs
#56. I've been rejected, but I am still in love.
Steve Jobs
#57. You can't win on innovation unless you have a way to communicate it to customers.
Steve Jobs
#58. Imagine if Steve Jobs or Thomas Edison or Albert Einstein were all alive 10, 20, 30 years before we know them to be alive; it would have advanced the world that much sooner.
Marc Guggenheim
#59. Everyone here has the sense that right now is one of those moments when we are influencing the future.
Steve Jobs
#61. I believe life is an intelligent thing: that things aren't random.
Steve Jobs
#62. What is Apple, after all? Apple is about people who think 'outside the box,' people who want to use computers to help them change the world, to help them create things that make a difference, and not just to get a job done.
Steve Jobs
#63. Steve Jobs was probably mildly on the autistic spectrum. Basically, you've probably known people who were geeky and socially awkward but very smart. When does geeks and nerds become autism? That's a gray area. Half the people in Silicon Valley probably have autism.
Temple Grandin
#64. You've baked a really lovely cake, but then you've used dog shit for frosting.
Steve Jobs
#65. 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
#66. Simplicity is the ultimate sophistication
Steve Jobs turned this into the slogan behind an early Mac advertising campaign. Which doesn't make it less true.
Steve Jobs
#67. Steve Jobs, Bill Gates and Mark Zuckerberg didn't finish college. Too much emphasis is placed on formal education - I told my children not to worry about their grades but to enjoy learning.
Nassim Nicholas Taleb
#68. 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.
Steve Jobs
#69. Innovation means saying 'no' to a thousand things.
Steve Jobs
#70. 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.
Steve Jobs
#71. I'm as proud of what we don't do as I am of what we do.
Steve Jobs
#72. That's what makes great products. It's not process-it's content.
Steve Jobs
#73. The iPod is not a new category. Music is not new. It's not a speculative market. It's a very, very large market. It's been around for thousands of years and will be around as long as humans exist.
Steve Jobs
#74. That's my job - to make sure everything is great.
Steve Jobs
#75. Everything is important- that success is in the details.
Steve Jobs
#76. I'm not only a fan of Apple products, I have stock in the company. I think Steve Jobs has started one of the greatest corporations in the world.
Kid Rock
#77. Creativity comes from spontaneous meetings, from random discussions.
Steve Jobs
#78. He not busy being born is busy dying
Steve Jobs
#79. You don't want to be first, right? You want to be second or third. You don't want to be - Facebook is not the first in social media. They're the third, right? Similarly, you know, if you look at Steve Jobs' history, he's never been first.
Malcolm Gladwell
#80. In most people's vocabularies, design means veneer. It's interior decorating. It's the fabric of the curtains and the sofa. But to me, nothing could be further from the meaning of design.
Steve Jobs
#81. Mac OS X Tiger will come out long before Longhorn.
Steve Jobs
#82. Recruiting is hard. It's just finding the needles in the haystack. You can't know enough in a one-hour interview.
Steve Jobs
#83. I think death is the most wonderful invention of life. It purges the system of these old models that are obsolete.
Steve Jobs
#84. And no, we don't know where it will lead. We just know there's something much bigger than any of us here.
Steve Jobs
#85. I admire Mark Zuckerberg ... for not selling out, for wanting to make a company. I admire that a lot.
Steve Jobs
#86. [In 2011] What Steve Jobs did was simply make everything and everyone better.
Lee Clow
#87. Of the great entrepreneurs of this era, people will have forgotten Steve Jobs.
Malcolm Gladwell
#88. It's like giving a glass of ice water to somebody in hell
about iTunes on Windows computers
Steve Jobs
#89. Steve [Jobs] and I spent months getting to know each other before I joined Apple. He had no exposure to marketing other than what he picked up on his own. This is sort of typical of Steve. When he knows something is going to be important, he tries to absorb as much as he possibly can.
John Sculley
#90. The hardest thing when you think about focusing. You think focusing is about saying "Yes." No. Focusing is about saying "No." And when you say "No," you piss off people.
Steve Jobs
#91. Innovation distinguishes a leader from a follower.
Steve Jobs
#92. I sat in a garage and invented the future.
Steve Jobs
#93. Steve Jobs is a national treasure. He is so visionary, and so bright. I had to fire him, though.
Arthur Rock
#94. I'm as proud of many of the things we haven't done as the things we have done. Innovation is saying no to a thousand things.
Steve Jobs
#95. 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.
Steve Jobs
#96. We don't have a good language to talk about this kind of thing. In most people's vocabularies, design means veneer ... But to me, nothing could be further from the meaning of design. Design is the fundamental soul of a man-made creation.
Steve Jobs
#97. I think PCs are going to be like trucks. Less people will need them. And this is going to make some people uneasy.
Steve Jobs
#98. You know, you keep on innovating, you keep on making better stuff. And if you always want the latest and greatest, then you have to buy a new iPod at least once a year.
Steve Jobs
#99. I was at Reed [College] for only a few months. My parents intended for me to stay there for all four years but I decided that college wasn't right for me. I had no idea what I wanted to do I didn't see how college was going to help me.
Steve Jobs
#100. My job, my mission, the reason I've been put onto this planet, is to save wildlife. And I thank you for comin' with me. Yeah, let's get 'em!
Steve Irwin
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