25 Best Quotes of Steve Job
Late Steve Jobs, Founder of Apple Inc.
25 Best Collection of Steve Job’s Quotes
1. 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.
2. 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.
3.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.
4. Be a yardstick of quality. Some people aren’t used to an environment where excellence is expected.
5. Design is not just what it looks like and feels like. Design is how it works.
6. To turn really interesting ideas and fledgling technologies into a company that can continue to innovate for years, it requires a lot of disciplines.
7. 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.
8. I feel like somebody just punched me in the stomach and knocked all my wind out. I’m only 30 years old and I want to have a chance to continue creating things. I know I’ve got at least one more great computer in me. And Apple is not going to give me a chance to do that.
9. I think we’re having fun. I think our customers really like our products. And we’re always trying to do better.
10. I want to put a ding in the universe.
11. I’m as proud of what we don’t do as I am of what we do.
12. I’m convinced that about half of what separates the successful entrepreneurs from the non- successful ones is pure perseverance.
13. I’m the only person I know that’s lost a quarter of a billion dollars in one year…. It’s very character-building.
14. I’ve always wanted to own and control the primary technology in everything we do.
15. In most people’s vocabularies, design means veneer. It’s interior decorating. It’s the fabric of the curtains of the sofa. But to me, nothing could be further from the meaning of design. Design is the fundamental soul of a human- made creation that ends up expressing itself in successive outer layers of the product or service.
16. Innovation distinguishes between a leader and a follower.
17. Why join the navy if you can be a pirate?
18. It’s really hard to design products by focus groups. A lot of times, people don’t know what they want until you show it to them.
19. Pretty much, Apple and Dell are the only ones in this industry making money. They make it by being Wal-Mart. We make it by innovation.
20. Quality is more important than quantity. One home run is much better than two doubles.
21. Sometimes when you innovate, you make mistakes. It is best to admit them quickly, and get on with improving your other innovations.
22. The people who are doing the work are the moving force behind the Macintosh. My job is to create a space for them, to clear out the rest of the organization and keep it at bay.
23. A leader leads by example, whether he intends to or not.
24. A lot of companies have chosen to downsize, and maybe that was the right thing for them. We chose a different path. Our belief was that if we kept putting great products in front of customers, they would continue to open their wallets.
25. You go to your TV to turn your brain off. You go to the computer when you want to turn your brain on.
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