Steve Jobs Quotes

If you are working on something that you really care about, you don't have to be pushed. The vision pulls you.

Innovation distinguishes between a leader and a follower.

Stay hungry. Stay foolish.

Creativity is just connecting things.

Sometimes life hits with a brick in the head, don't lose hope.

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

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

We believe people with Passion CAN change the World for the Better.

Make it like a sunflower.

Management is about persuading people to do things they do not want to do, while leadership is about inspiring people to do things they never thought they could.

Don’t let the noise of others’ opinions drown out your own inner voice.

Have the courage to follow your heart and intuition. They somehow already know what you truly want to become. Everything else is secondary.

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.

If you are working on something exciting that you really care about, you don't have to be pushed. The vision pulls you.

It takes a lot of hard work to make something simple.

Innovation is the ability to see change as an opportunity - not a threat

Great things in business are never done by one person, they're done by a team of people.

Your time is limited, so don't waste it living someone else's life.

Do not try to do everything. Do one thing well.

Everything is based on a simple rule: Quality is the best business plan, period.

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

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

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.

To go forward you have to leave something behind

Quality is more important than quantity. One home run is much better than two doubles.

Have the courage to follow your heart and intuition.

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.

Strategy is figuring out what not to do.

To turn really interesting ideas and fledgling technologies into a company that can continue to innovate for years, it requires a lot of disciplines.

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.

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

When you ask creative people how they did something, they feel a little guilty because they didn't really do it, they just saw something.

Learn continually - there's always "one more thing" to learn!

If you haven't found it yet, keep looking.

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

Don't just live a life; build one.

The most powerful person in the world is the story teller. The storyteller sets the vision, values and agenda of an entire generation that is to come.

If you keep your eye on the profit, you’re going to skimp on the product. But if you focus on making really great products, then the profits will follow.

Packaging can be theater, it can create a story

Focus and simplicity...once you get there, you can move mountains.

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

My favorite things in life don't cost any money. It's really clear that the most precious resource we all have is time.

Most people never pick up the phone and call. Most people never ask, and that’s what separates the people who do things from the people who just dream about them.

I don't view wealth as something that validates my intelligence.

Whatever you do, you must never let the voice in your head control the brain in your heart.

We have always been shameless about stealing great ideas.

It's technology married with liberal arts, married with the humanities, that yields us the results that make our heart sing.

Guess who surprised themselves and changed their minds.

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

Deciding what not to do is as important as deciding what to do.