Steve Jobs

Steve Jobs Quotes

Steve Jobs (1955–2011) was an American businessman inventor and investor. He is best known for co-founding the technology company Apple Inc. Jobs was a pioneer of the personal computer revolution. He also founded NeXT and chaired Pixar. He was largely responsible for reviving Apple in the late 1990s. He introduced revolutionary products like the iMac iPod iPhone and iPad.

Quote by Steve Jobs: I buy everything from CostCo. It's great; they've got everything I need....
Quote by Steve Jobs: So when these people sell out, even though they get fabulously rich, they're gypping themselves out ...
Quote by Steve Jobs: The manual for WordStar, the most popular word-processing program, is 400 pages thick. To write a no...
Quote by Steve Jobs: Our approach is to think of companies not as businesses but as collections of people. We [Apple]want...
Quote by Steve Jobs: The day I was born songs were on records, phones were tied down, computers needed rooms and the web ...
Quote by Steve Jobs: You know, Dr. Edwin Land was a troublemaker. He dropped out of Harvard and founded Polaroid. Not onl...
Quote by Steve Jobs: Part of what made the Macintosh great was that the people working on it were musicians, poets, and a...
Quote by Steve Jobs: Creativity comes from spontaneous meetings, from random discussions....
Quote by Steve Jobs: If, for some reason, we make some big mistake and IBM wins, my personal feeling is that we are going...
Quote by Steve Jobs: Strategy is figuring out what not to do....
Quote by Steve Jobs: Most people do not ever pick up the phone. They never ask, and that is what separates the people tha...
Quote by Steve Jobs: I was lucky to get into computers when it was a very young and idealistic industry. There weren't ma...
Quote by Steve Jobs: Overnight success stories take a long time....
Quote by Steve Jobs: I don't think I've ever worked so hard on something, but working on Macintosh was the neatest experi...
Quote by Steve Jobs: If you are working on something exciting that you really care about, you don't have to be pushed. Th...
Quote by Steve Jobs: I was worth about over a million dollars when I was 23 and over ten million dollars when I was 24, a...
Quote by Steve Jobs: We had the hardware expertise, the industrial design expertise and the software expertise, including...
Quote by Steve Jobs: You know we're constantly taking. We don't make most of the food we eat, we don't grow it, anyway. W...
Quote by Steve Jobs: You've got to have a problem that you want to solve; a wrong that you want to right....
Quote by Steve Jobs: In most cases, strengths and weaknesses are two sides of the same coin. A strength in one situation ...
Quote by Steve Jobs: The were good times, there were hard times, but there were never bad times...
Quote by Steve Jobs: And we've all chosen to do this with our lives. So it better be damn good. It better be worth it....
Quote by Steve Jobs: We don't get a chance to do that many things, and every one should be really excellent. Because this...
Quote by Steve Jobs: I'm convinced that about half of what separates successful entrepreneurs from the non-successful one...
Quote by Steve Jobs: Details matter, it's worth waiting to get it right....
Quote by Steve Jobs: Whatever you do, you must never let the voice in your head control the brain in your heart....
Quote by Steve Jobs: The web is just going to be one more of those major change factors that businesses face every decade...
Quote by Steve Jobs: It's like when IBM drove a lot of innovation out of the computer industry before the microprocessor ...
Quote by Steve Jobs: The thing that drives me and my colleagues at both Apple and Pixar is that you see something very co...
Quote by Steve Jobs: I'm one of those people that think Thomas Edison and the light bulb changed the world more than Karl...
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Quote by Steve Jobs: If Macintosh hadn't been successful, then I should have just thrown in the towel, because my vision ...
Quote by Steve Jobs: It's the disease of thinking that a having a great idea is really 90% of the work. And if you just t...
Quote by Steve Jobs: Without passion, any rational person would give up!...
Quote by Steve Jobs: I want to make a dent in the universe....
Quote by Steve Jobs: In order to learn how to do something well, you have to fail sometimes. In order to fail, there has ...
Quote by Steve Jobs: I wish developing great products was as easy as writing a check. If that was the case, Microsoft wou...
Quote by Steve Jobs: Management is about persuading people to do things they do not want to do, while leadership is about...
Quote by Steve Jobs: Your work is going to fill a large part of your life... so love what you do. Your time is limited. D...
Quote by Steve Jobs: We don't get a chance to do that many things, and every one should be really excellent. Because this...
Quote by Steve Jobs: We try to use the talents we do have to express our deep feelings, to show our appreciation of all t...
Quote by Steve Jobs: The system is that there is no system. That doesn't mean we don't have process. Apple is a very disc...
Quote by Steve Jobs: The good music companies do an amazing thing. They have people who can pick the person that's gonna ...
Quote by Steve Jobs: The most compelling reason for most people to buy a computer for the home will be to link it to a na...
Quote by Steve Jobs: Great things in business are never done by one person, they're done by a team of people....
Quote by Steve Jobs: Be a yardstick of quality. Some people aren't used to an environment where excellence is expected....
Quote by Steve Jobs: I admire Mark Zuckerberg... for not selling out, for wanting to make a company. I admire that a lot....
Quote by Steve Jobs: Don’t let the noise of others’ opinions drown out your own inner voice....
Quote by Steve Jobs: That's my job - to make sure everything is great....
Quote by Steve Jobs: Do you create anything, or just criticize others work and belittle their motivations?...
Quote by Steve Jobs: I hate the way people use slide presentations instead of thinking. People would confront a problem b...
Quote by Steve Jobs: But it's a disservice to constantly put things in this radical new light - that it's going to change...
Quote by Steve Jobs: Your time on this earth is limited, don’t live someone else's life, live by your vision....
Quote by Steve Jobs: It comes down to trying to expose yourself to the best things humans have done. And then try to brin...
Quote by Steve Jobs: Pursue your dreams and see the opportunities in life's setbacks....
Quote by Steve Jobs: Everyone here has the sense that right now is one of those moments when we are influencing the futur...
Quote by Steve Jobs: I know that living with me was not a bowl of cherries....
Quote by Steve Jobs: It's more fun to be a pirate than to join the Navy....
Quote by Steve Jobs: I've done a lot of things I'm not proud of, such as getting my girlfriend pregnant when I was 23 and...
Quote by Steve Jobs: Computers themselves, and software yet to be developed, will revolutionize the way we learn....