Top 605 Quotes & Sayings by Steve Jobs - Page 3

Each dream you leave behind is a part of your future that will no longer exist.

If you're afraid of failing you won't get very far

Your customers don't care about you. They don't care about your product or service. They care about themselves, their dreams, their goals. Now, they will care much more if you help them reach their goals, and to do that, you must understand their goals, as well as their needs and deepest desires.

When you first start off trying to solve a problem, the first solutions you come up with are very complex, and most people stop there. But if you keep going, and live with the problem and peel more layers of the onion off, you can often times arrive at some very elegant and simple solutions.

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.

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

Your time on this earth is limited, don’t live someone else's life, live by your vision.

Strategy is figuring out what not to do.

If a user is having a problem, it's our problem.

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

Overnight success stories take a long time.

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

the people who are crazy enough to think they can change the world are the ones who do.

You have to trust that the dots will somehow connect in your future... The only way to do great work is to love what you do. If you haven’t found it yet, keep looking. Don’t settle. As with all matters of the heart, you’ll know when you find it... Have the courage to follow your heart and intuition. They somehow already know what you truly want to become. Everything else is secondary.

Follow your heart, but check it with your head.

Innovation is the only way to win.

The only way to be truly satisfied is to do what you believe is great work

Don't just live a life; build one.

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

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

In the first 30 years of your life, you make your habits. For the last 30 years of your life, your habits make you.

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

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

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

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

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.

Start small, think big. Don’t worry about too many things at once. Take a handful of simple things to begin with, and then progress to more complex ones. Think about not just tomorrow, but the future. Put a ding in the universe.

We believe people with passion can change the world for the better. That's what we believe. And we believe that those people who are crazy enough to think they can change the world are the ones that actually do.

Details matter, it's worth waiting to get it right.

Many companies forget what it means to make great products. After initial success, sales and marketing people take over and the product people eventually make their way out.

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

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.

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

Customers don't measure you on how hard you tried, they measure you on what you deliver.

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.

I don't want to fail, of course. But even though I didn't know how bad things really were, I still had a lot to think about before I said yes. I had to consider the implications for Pixar, for my family, for my reputation. I decided that I didn't really care, because this is what I want to do. If I try my best and fail, well, I've tried my best.

You‘ve got to start with the customer experience and work back toward the technology - not the other way around.

To go forward you have to leave something behind

When you start looking at a problem and it seems really simple, you don't really understand the complexity of the problem. Then you get into the problem, and you see that it's really complicated, and you come up with all these convoluted solutions. That's sort of the middle, and that's where most people stop... But the really great person will keep on going and find the key, the underlying principle of the problem - and come up with an elegant, really beautiful solution that works.

You have to have a lot of passion for what you do... because if you don't, any rational person would give up.

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

Don't be afraid, you can do it.

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.

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

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

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

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

You've got to have a problem that you want to solve; a wrong that you want to right.

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.

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

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.

If you want to hire great people and have them stay, you have to be run by ideas, not hierarchy. The best ideas have to win.

You should never go to a meeting or make a telephone call without a clear idea of what you are trying to achieve.

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

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

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.

The only way to do great work is to love what you do. If you haven't found it yet, keep looking. Don't settle.

If you don't have a passion, you'll give up.

Let's go invent tomorrow instead of worrying about what happened yesterday.

The unions are the worst thing that ever happened to education because it's not a meritocracy. It turns into a bureaucracy, which is exactly what has happened. The teachers can't teach and administrators run the place and nobody can be fired. It's terrible.