"Things don't have to change the world..." - Quote by Steve Jobs
Things don't have to change the world to be important.
More by Steve Jobs
“The thing that drives me and my colleagues at both Apple and Pixar is that you see something very compelling to you, and you don't quite know how to get to it, but you know, sometimes intuitively, it's within your grasp. And it's worth putting in years of your life to make it come into existence.”
“I wish developing great products was as easy as writing a check. If that was the case, Microsoft would have great products.”
“The manual for WordStar, the most popular word-processing program, is 400 pages thick. To write a novel, you have to read a novel - one that reads like a mystery to most people. They're not going to learn slash q-z any more than they're going to learn Morse code. That is what Macintosh is all about.”
More on Impact
“For the rest of his life, Oliver Twist remembers a single word of blessing spoken to him by another child because this word stood out so strikingly from the consistent discouragement around him.”
“Doing the little things can make a big difference.”
“I do a lot of conferences, a lot of leadership training. For about six or seven years I've been making this statement - every time I make it, I can see people just kind of - it's just one of those light bulb moments.”
More on Purpose
“Man is a goal-seeking animal. His life only has meaning if he is reaching out and striving for his goals.”
“You must accept that if the computer is a tool, it is the job of tool user to know what to use it for.”
“All human beings are born with the same creative potential. Most people squander theirs away on a million superfluous things. I expend mine on one thing and one thing only: my art.”