Steve Jobs Quotes

I know from my own education that if I hadn't encountered two or three individuals that spent extra time with me, I'm sure I would have been in jail.

I have enough to last for the rest of my life.

LSD...reinforc ed my sense of what was important-creat ing great things instead of making money, putting things back into the stream of history and of human consciousness as much as I could.

Each year has been so robust with problems and successes and learning experiences and human experienes that a year is a lifetime at Apple. So this has been ten lifetimes.

I want to make a dent in the universe.

It is hard to think that a $2 billion company with 4,300-plus people couldn't compete with six people in blue jeans.

To follow the path that others have laid before you is a reasonable course of action; therefore all progress is made by unreasonable men.

I'm not worried about the country's long-term future. This country is insanely great. What I'm worried about is that we don't talk enough about solutions.

The day I was born songs were on records, phones were tied down, computers needed rooms and the web was fiction. Change the world. You can.

You know, I've got a plan that could rescue Apple. I can't say any more than that it's the perfect product and the perfect strategy for Apple. But nobody there will listen to me.

If Macintosh hadn't been successful, then I should have just thrown in the towel, because my vision of the whole industry would have been totally wrong.

All the work I've done in my life will be obsolete by the time I'm fifty.

Not only was [Edwin Land] one of the great inventors of our time but, more important, he saw the intersection of art and science and business and built an organization to reflect that.

We live in an information economy. The problem is that information's usually impossible to get, at least in the right place, at the right time.

Who wants a stylus. You have to get em and put em away, and you lose em. Yuck. Nobody wants a stylus.

You've heard of plug-and-play. This is plug, unplug and play. It's so simple to use, it's unbelievable.

My philosophy is that everything starts with a great product.

People say sometimes, "You work in the fastest-moving industry in the world." I don't feel that way. I think I work in one of the slowest. It seems to take forever to get anything done.

The juice goes out of Christianity when it becomes too based on faith rather than on living like Jesus or seeing the world as Jesus saw it.

I think PCs are going to be like trucks. Less people will need them. And this is going to make some people uneasy.

That's what makes great products. It's not process-it's content.

Once IBM gains control of a market sector, they almost always stop innovation. They prevent innovation from happening.

People need to have the incentive that if they invest and succeed, they can make a fair profit. Otherwise they'll stop investing.

This revolution, the information revolution, is a revolution of free energy as well, but of another kind: free intellectual energy.

iMac is next year's computer for $1,299, not last year's computer for $999.

We're not a media company. We don't own media. We don't own music. We don't own films or television. We're not a media company. We're just Apple.

I make 50 cents for showing up... and the other 50 cents is based on my performance.

I get asked a lot why Apple's customers are so loyal. It's not because they belong to the Church of Mac! That's ridiculous.

Woz is living his own life now. He hasn't been around Apple for about five years. But what he did will go down in history.

I've always wanted to own and control the primary technology in everything we do.

One of my beliefs very strongly is that any democracy depends on a free, healthy press.

Somewhere between the janitor and the CEO, reasons stop mattering.

Great art stretches the taste, it doesn't follow tastes.

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.

‎Experts are clueless.

Ad campaigns are necessary for competition. But good PR educates people; that's all it is.

Our job is to read things that are not yet on the page.

Combine science and humanities.

It's not like Windows users don't have any power. I think they are happy with Windows, and that's an incredibly depressing thought

Pixar is seen by a lot of folks as an overnight success, but if you really look closely, most overnight successes took a long time.

The customer is the final inspector.

Focus does not mean saying yes, it means saying no.

Do you want to sell sugar water all your life, or do you want to come with me and change the world?

The creative industries tend to dismiss technology as just something to buy and not understand how hard it is and how creative it can be as well.

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.

Sometimes life hits you like a brick in the face. Don't give up.

What a computer is to me is it's the most remarkable tool that we have ever come up with. It's the equivalent of a bicycle for our minds.

The subscription model of buying music is bankrupt. I think you could make available the Second Coming in a subscription model and it might not be successful.

I hate the way people use PowerPoints instead of thinking

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