Top 605 Quotes & Sayings by Steve Jobs - Page 6

There’s a phrase in Buddhism, ‘Beginner’s mind.’ It’s wonderful to have a beginner’s mind.

I hate it when people call themselves 'entrepreneurs' when what they're really trying to do is launch a startup and then sell of go public, so they can cash in and move on. They're unwilling to do the work it takes to build a real company, which is the hardest work in business.

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

The real art is knowing what to leave out, not what to put in.

If you don't cannibalize yourself, someone else will.

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.

Marketing is about values. It's a complicated and noisy world, and we're not going to get a chance to get people to remember much about us. No company is. So we have to be really clear about what we want them to know about us.

Focusing is about saying No.

So when a good idea comes, you know, part of my job is to move it around, just see what different people think, get people talking about it, argue with people about it, get ideas moving among that group of 100 people, get different people together to explore different aspects of it quietly, and, you know – just explore things.

You have to trust in something--your gut, destiny, life, karma, whatever.

My job is to make the whole executive team good enough to be successors, so that's what I try to do.

The were good times, there were hard times, but there were never bad times

A-plus players like to work together and they don't like it if you tolerate B work.

It comes from saying no to 1,000 things to make sure we don't get on the wrong track or try to do too much.

In your life you only get to do so many things and right now we've chosen to do this, so let's make it great.

Packaging can be theater, it can create a story

There’s a temptation in our networked age to think that ideas can be developed by email and iChat. That’s crazy. Creativity comes from spontaneous meetings, from random discussions. You run into someone, you ask what they’re doing, you say ‘wow,’ and soon you’re cooking up all sorts of ideas.

That's my job - to make sure everything is great.

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

Love what you do...Don't settle

Coming back to America was, for me, much more of a culture shock than going to India. The people in the Indian countryside don't use their intellect like we do, they use their intuition instead, and their intuition is far more developed than in the rest of the world. Intuition is a very powerful thing, more powerful than intellect in my opinion. That's had a big impact on my work.

If it could save a person's life, could you find a way to save ten seconds off the boot time? If there were five million people using the Mac, and it took ten seconds extra to turn it on every day, that added up to three hundred million or so hours per year people would save, which was the equivalent of at least one hundred lifetimes saved per year.

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.

I sat in a garage and invented the future.

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

Much of what I stumbled into by following my curiosity and intuition turned out to be priceless later on.

We're here to make a dent in the universe. Otherwise, why even be here? We're creating a completely new consciousness, like an artist or a poet. That’s how you have to think of this. We're rewriting the history of human thought with what we're doing.

Sometimes life's going to hit you in the head with a brick. Don't lose faith. I'm convinced that the only thing that kept me going was that I loved what I did.

You've got to find what you love.

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

?Experts are clueless.

We don't settle for anything less than excellence.

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.

One way to drive fear out of a relationship is to realize that your partner's values are the same as yours, that what you care about is exactly what they care about. In my opinion, that drives fear out and makes for a great partnership, whether it's a corporate partnership or a marriage.

Focusing is all about saying no

Ask for feedback from people with diverse backgrounds. Each one will tell you one useful thing. If you're at the top of the chain, sometimes people won't give you honest feedback because they're afraid. In this case, disguise yourself, or get feedback from other sources.

It's rare that you see an artist in his 30s or 40s able to really contribute something amazing. Of course, there are some people who are innately curious, forever little kids in their awe of life, but they're rare.

The people who built Silicon Valley were engineers. They learned business, they learned a lot of different things, but they had a real belief that humans, if they worked hard with other creative, smart people, could solve most of humankind's problems. I believe that very much.

My job is not to be easy on people. My job is to take these great people we have and to push them and make them even better.

Don’t let the voice of other people’s opinion drown your inner voice.

Innovation distinguishes a leader from a follower.

Technology alone is not enough.

I'm as proud of what we don't do as I am of what we do.

When we started off we didn't know how to spell software.

I was worth about over a million dollars when I was 23 and over ten million dollars when I was 24, and over a hundred million dollars when I was 25 and... it wasn't that important — because I never did it for the money.

Pursue your dreams and see the opportunities in life's setbacks.

Let's make a dent in the universe

Whenever you do any one thing intensely over a period of time you have to give up other lives you could be living. You have to have a real single-minded kind of tunnel vision if you want to get anything significant accomplished. Especially if the desire is not to be a businessman, but to be a creative person.

We limit how much technology our kids use at home.

Stay Hungry. Stay Foolish. And I have always wished that for myself. And now, as you graduate to begin anew, I wish that for you.

If today were my last day, would I do what I'm doing?...If the answer was 'No' too many days in a row, I'd make a change.

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

The technology companies don't understand creative things at all. Silicon Valley's view of the creative process in Hollywood is a bunch of guys in their young thirties sitting on a couch, drinking beer, and thinking up jokes.

Remembering that I’ll be dead soon is the most important tool I’ve ever encountered to help make the big choices in life. Remembering that you are going to die is the best way I know to avoid the trap of thinking you have something to lose.

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.

Fear of failure falls away in the face of death.

You're missing it. This is not a one-man show. What's reinvigorating this company is two things: One, there's a lot of really talented people in this company who listened to the world tell them they were losers for a couple of years, and some of them were on the verge of starting to believe it themselves. But they're not losers. What they didn't have was a good set of coaches, a good plan. A good senior management team. But they have that now.

Some mistakes will be made along the way. That's good. Because some decisions are being made along the way. We'll find the mistakes. We'll fix them.

Let's go invent tomorrow...

Design is the fundamental soul of a man-made creation