I’m always focussed on the actual work, and I think that’s a much more succinct way to describe what you care about than any speech I could ever make.

Simplification is one of the most difficult things to do.

It's actually a rare and precious thing to discover what it is you love to do, and I encourage you to remain unapologetically consumed by it. Be faithful to your gift and very confident in its value.

It's very easy to be different, but very difficult to be better.

There's no learning without trying lots of ideas and failing lots of times.

There is beauty when something works and it works intuitively.

People's interest is in the product, not in its authorship.

Simplicity is somehow essentially describing the purpose and place of an object and product.

I think subconsciously people are remarkably discerning. I think that they can sense care.

Apple stood for something and had a reason for being that wasn't just about making money.

When something exceeds your ability to understand how it works, it sort of becomes magical.

We learn from conflicts only when we are willing to do so.

We have the power to bend all men to our whim, but are forever pushing ourselves further, trying to fly higher… and falling.

For those of us in the financial world, Black Friday has a strong negative connotation, referring to a stock market catastrophe.

[History]... is nothing else but the rise and disappearance of races.

Great Socialist statesmen aren't made, they're still-born.

Heart is what makes a difference

There's this large trend - I think the next trend in the Web, sort of Web 2.0 - which is to have users really express, offer, and market their own content, their own persona, their identity.

What I want to do, is play music for somebody who believe in me.

Experience is the universal mother of sciences.

Most things are born in the mothering darkness and most things die. Darkness is the womb of creation, my boy. But the sun with his seven horns of flame is the father of life.