"We don't settle for anything less than..." - Quote by Steve Jobs
We don't settle for anything less than excellence.
More by Steve Jobs
“I hate the way people use PowerPoints instead of thinking”
“Our approach is to think of companies not as businesses but as collections of people. We [Apple]want to qualitatively change the way people work. We don't just want to help them do word processing faster or add numbers faster. We want to change the way they can communicate with one another. We're seeing less paper flying around and more quality of communication.”
“When you're a carpenter making a beautiful chest of drawers, you're not going to use a piece of plywood on the back, even though it faces the wall and nobody will ever see it. You'll know it's there, so you're going to use a beautiful piece of wood on the back.”
More on Excellence
“Don't lower your expectations to meet your performance. Raise your level of performance to meet your expectations. Expect the best of yourself, and then do what is necessary to make it a reality.”
“That's my job - to make sure everything is great.”
“There is one single thread binding my way together...the way of the Master consists in doing one's best...that is all.”
More on Standards
“I don't want to please everybody. I'd get a little worried if I did something and everybody was pleased with it.”
“When we force a boy to be a mediocrity in a dozen subjects we destroy his standards, perhaps for life.”
“The standard that measures two things is something different from either. You are, in fact, comparing them both with some Real Morality, admitting that there is such a thing as a real Right, independent of what people think, and that some people's ideas get nearer to that real Right than others.”