Steve Jobs Quotes

“Intuition is a very powerful thing, more powerful than intellect.”

“Everything is important- that success is in the details.”

“I'm not dismissing the value of higher education; I'm simply saying it comes at the expense of experience.”

“It's not like Windows users don't have any power. I think they are happy with Windows, and that's an incredibly depressing thought”

“Being the richest man in the cemetery doesn't matter to me ... Going to bed at night saying we've done something wonderful... that's what matters to me.”

“Taking LSD was a profound experience, one of the most important things in my life.”

“Simplicity is the ultimate sophistication-- Steve Jobs turned this into the slogan behind an early Mac advertising campaign. Which doesn't make it less true.”

“My favorite things in life don't cost any money. It's really clear that the most precious resource we all have is time.”

“None of us are as creative as all of us.”

“When you grow up, you tend to get told that the world is the way it is, and your life is just to live your life inside the world. Try not to bash into the walls too much. Try to have a nice family life. Have fun, save a little money. That's a very limited life. Life can be much broader, once you discover one simple fact, and that is everything around that you call life was made up by people who were no smarter than you. And you can change it. You can influence it. You can build your own things that other people can use. Once you learn that, you'll never be the same again.”

“In the first 30 years of your life, you make your habits. For the last 30 years of your life, your habits make you.”

“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.”

“Don't be evil is a load of crap.”

“Everything around you that you call life was made up by people that were no smarter than you and you can change it, you can influence it, you can build your own things that other people can use.”

“I have always said if there ever came a day when I could no longer meet my duties and expectations as Apple's CEO, I would be the first to let you know. Unfortunately, that day has come.”

“Focus and simplicity...once you get there, you can move mountains.”

“Let's go invent tomorrow...”

“We just wanted to build the best thing we could build”

“It doesn’t make sense to hire smart people and tell them what to do; we hire smart people so they can tell us what to do.”

“I think the world's a better place because Bill realized that his goal isn't to be the richest guy in the cemetery, right?”

“Life is about creating and living experiences that are worth sharing.”

“I'm the only person I know that's lost a quarter of a billion dollars in one year. It's very character-building.”

“Learn continually - there's always "one more thing" to learn!”

“I had been rejected, but I was still in love.”

“Be ready to catch the ball when it is thrown by life.”