STEVE JOBS' BEST QUOTES

STEVE JOBS' BEST QUOTES:

On Death:

"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, Stanford Commencement Adress, 2005

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"Almost everything--all external expectations, all pride, all fear of embarrassment or failure--these things just fall away in the face of death, leaving only what is truly important. 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

"No one wants to die. Even people who want to go to heaven don't want to die to get there. And yet, death is the destination we all share. No one has ever escaped it, and that is how it should be, because death is very likely the single best invention of life. It's life's change agent. It clears out the old to make way for the new."

-Steve Jobs, Stanford Commencement Adress, 2005

On Design:
"Design is not just what it looks like and feels like. Design is how it works."-Steve Jobs

On Being Different:
"Here's to the crazy ones, the misfits, the rebels, the troublemakers, the round pegs in the square holes... the ones who see things differently -- they're not fond of rules... You can quote them, disagree with them, glorify or vilify them, but the only thing you can't do is ignore them because they change things... they push the human race forward, and while some may see them as the crazy ones, we see genius, because the ones who are crazy enough to think that they can change the world, are the ones who do."
-Steve Jobs

On Following One's Own Path:
"Your time is limited, so don't waste it living someone else's life. Don't be trapped by dogma - which is living with the results of other people's thinking. Don't let the noise of other's opinions drown out your own inner voice. And most important, 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

STEVE JOBS 1983

On Choices:
"I'm as proud of what we don't do as I am of what we do."
-Steve Jobs, Business Week


On Perseverance:
"I'm convinced that about half of what separates the successful entrepreneurs from the non-successful ones is pure perseverance."
-Steve Jobs, Interview, 1995


On Ideas:
"Picasso had a saying: 'Good artists copy, great artists steal.' 
We have always been shameless about stealing great ideas...I think part of what made the Macintosh great was that the people working on it were musicians, poets, artists, zoologists and historians who also happened to be the best computer scientists in the world."-Steve Jobs

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On Life:
"[Y]ou 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. 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."
-- Stanford University commencement address, June 2005.
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On Business:
"My model for business is The Beatles. They were four guys who kept each other's kind of negative tendencies in check. They balanced each other and the total was greater than the sum of the parts. That's how I see business: great things in business are never done by one person, they're done by a team of people."
-- Interview with 60 Minutes, 2003


On Work:
"Your work is going to fill a large part of your life, and the only way to be truly satisfied is to do what you believe is great work. And 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

STEVE JOBS WITH MACINTOSH

On Life and Faith:
"I didn't see it then, but it turned out that getting fired from Apple was the best thing that could have ever happened to me. The heaviness of being successful was replaced by the lightness of being a beginner again, less sure about everything. It freed me to enter one of the most creative periods of my life.[…] It was awful tasting medicine, but I guess the patient needed it. Sometimes life hits you in the head with a brick. Don't lose faith."-Steve Jobs


On Doing What you Love:
"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

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My Favorite:

"Stay Hungry,stay foolish"-Steve Jobs