Steve Jobs Quotes

We had nothing to lose and everything to gain.

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.

I was lucky - I found what I love to do early in life.

I think we're having fun. I think our customers really like our products. And we're always trying to do better.

Companies must have a noble cause, and it's the leaders job to transform that noble cause into such an inspiring vision, that it will attract the most talented people in the world to want to join it.

A small team of A+ players can run circles around a giant team of B and C players.

A lot of time, people don't do great things becoz' great things really aren't expected of them.

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!

You need to have a collaborative hiring process.

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

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

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

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.

I end up not buying a lot of things, because I find them ridiculous.

The Japanese have hit the shores like dead fish. They're just like dead fish washing up on the shores.

We're not going to be the first to this party, but we're going to be the best.

If we don’t cannibalize ourselves, someone else will.

There are downsides to everything; there are unintended consequences to everything.

the best innovation is sometimes the company, the way you organize the company

An iPod, a phone, an internet mobile communicator... these are NOT three separate devices! And we are calling it iPhone! Today Apple is going to reinvent the phone. And here it is.

I think the Macintosh was created by a group of people who felt that ah there wasn't a strict vision between sort of science and art.

Oh wow. Oh wow. Oh wow.

I think Pixar has the opportunity to be the next Disney - not replace Disney - but be the next Disney.

Don't be evil is a load of crap.

What's new is this amazingly efficient distribution system for stolen property called the Internet - and no one's gonna shut down the Internet.

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.

Why join the navy if you can be a pirate?

Things don't have to change the world to be important.

Intuition is a very powerful thing, more powerful than intellect.

Your work is going to fill a large part of your life... so love what you do. Your time is limited. Don't waste it.

Do you create anything, or just criticize others work and belittle their motivations?

It comes down to trying to expose yourself to the best things humans have done. And then try to bring those things in to what you're doing.

I'm one of those people that think Thomas Edison and the light bulb changed the world more than Karl Marx ever did.

Life can be much broader once you discover one simple fact — everything around you that you call life was made up by people that were no smarter than you.

Design is the fundamental soul of a man-made creation

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

I don't really care about being right, I just care about success.

One: demonstrations always crash. And two: the probability of them crashing goes up exponentially with the number of people watching.

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.

The mark of an innovative company is not only that it comes up with new ideas first, but also that it knows how to leapfrog when it finds itself behind.

When the sales guys run the company, the product guys do not matter so much, and a lot of them just turn off.

What we're doing here will send a giant ripple through the universe.

We believe people with Passion CAN change the World for the Better." -Steve Jobs

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.

The axis today is not liberal and conservative, the axis is constructive-destructive.

I had been rejected, but I was still in love.

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

Music companies are not technology companies any more than technology companies are music companies. They're really different from each other.

Our goal is to make the best devices in the world, not to be the biggest.

It's not a faith in technology. It's faith in people.