Steve Jobs Quotes

“Make it like a sunflower.”

“Older people sit down and ask, 'What is it?' but the boy asks, 'What can I do with it?'.”

“And no, we don't know where it will lead. We just know there's something much bigger than any of us here.”

“The problem is I'm older now, I'm 40 years old, and this stuff doesn't change the world. It really doesn't.”

“We all have a short period of time on this earth-We probably only have the opportunity to do a few things really great and do them well. None of us has any idea how long we're going to be here nor do I, but my feeling is I've got to accomplish a lot of these things while I'm young.”

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

“I sat in a garage and invented the future.”

“At Apple, people are putting in 18-hour days. We attract a different type of person—a person who doesn’t want to wait five or ten years to have someone take a giant risk on him or her. Someone who really wants to get in a little over his head and make a little dent in the universe. We are aware that we are doing something significant. We’re here at the beginning of it and we’re able to shape how it goes. Everyone here has the sense that right now is one of those moments when we are influencing the future.”

“Remembering that I'll be dead soon is the most important tool I've ever encountered to help me make the big choices in life. Because almost everything - all external expectations, all pride, all fear of embarrassment or failure - these things just fall away in the face of death, leaving only what is truly important.”

“I try to get people to see what I have. . . . When you run a computer company, you have to get people to buy into your dreams.”

“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.”

“I think the artistry is in having an insight into what one sees around them. Generally putting things together in a way no one else has before and finding a way to express that to other people who don't have that insight.”

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

“Death is the destination we all share, no one has ever escaped it. And that is as it should be because death is very likely the single best invention of life.”

“What we're doing here will send a giant ripple through the universe.”

“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.”

“Never settle for average.”

“Creativity is just connecting things. When you ask creative people how they did something, they feel a little guilty because they didn't really do it, they just saw something. It seemed obvious to them after a while. That's because they were able to connect experiences they've had and synthesize new things.”

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

“The biggest effect of the personal computer revolution has been to allow millions and millions of people to experience computers themselves decades before they ever would have in the old paradigm.”

“Stay hungry, stay foolish.”

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

“Find people who are competent and really bright, but more importantly, people who care exactly about the same things you care about.”

“What this means is that people are seeing a stable business, which is good, and a business that is in control, which is also good.”

“My model for business is The Beatles: They were four guys that kept each others' negative tendencies in check; they balanced each other. And the total was greater than the sum of the parts.”