Steve Jobs Quotes

“I'm convinced that about half of what separates the successful entrepreneurs from the non-successful ones is pure perseverance... Unless you have a lot of passion about this, you're not going to survive. You're going to give it up. So you've got to have an idea, or a problem or a wrong that you want to right that you're passionate about otherwise you're not going to have the perseverance to stick it through.”

“Things don't have to change the world to be important.”

“I got very interested in people who had discovered something more significant than ... intellectual, abstract understanding.”

“Who wants a stylus. You have to get em and put em away, and you lose em. Yuck. Nobody wants a stylus.”

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

“[My teacher] basically bribed me back into learning with candy and money and what was really remarkable was before very long I had such a respect for her that it sort of re-ignited my desire to learn.”

“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.”

“Technology alone is not enough.”

“It's more fun to be a pirate than to join the navy. On the importance of loving what you do.”

“I was at Reed [College] for only a few months. My parents intended for me to stay there for all four years but I decided that college wasn't right for me. I had no idea what I wanted to do I didn't see how college was going to help me.”

“Apple is the only company in the world that has all of that under one roof. We can invent a complete a solution that works - and take responsibility for it.”

“The most powerful person in the world is the story teller.The storyteller sets the vision, values and agendaof an entire generation that is to come.”

“Let's go invent tomorrow instead of worrying about what happened yesterday.”

“You've got to find what you love. And that is as true for your work as it is for your lovers.”

“You know, my main reaction to this money thing is that it's humorous, all the attention to it, because it's hardly the most insightful or valuable thing that's happened to me.”

“Fear of failure falls away in the face of death.”

“I think if you do something and it turns out pretty good, then you should go do something else wonderful, not dwell on it for too long. Just figure out what's next.”

“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.”

“After all the statistics and calculations are formulated, the one element that breathes life into marketing is good design.”

“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.”

“Right now the new is you, but someday not too long from now, you will gradually become the old and be cleared away. Sorry to be so dramatic, but it is quite true.”

“This revolution, the information revolution, is a revolution of free energy as well, but of another kind: free intellectual energy.”

“We had nothing to lose and everything to gain.”

“If you define the problem correctly, you almost have the solution.”

“The axis today is not liberal and conservative, the axis is constructive-destructive.”