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I've always wanted to own and control the primary technology in everything we do. — Steve Jobs

If you live each day as if it were your last, someday you'll be right. — Steve Jobs

If I knew in 1986 how much it was going to cost to keep Pixar going, I doubt if I would have bought the company. — Steve Jobs

The real art is knowing what to leave out, not what to put in. — Steve Jobs

Quality is more important than quantity. One home run is much better than two doubles. — Steve Jobs

Why would I ever want to run Disney? Wouldn't it make more sense just to sell them Pixar and retire? — Steve Jobs

Design isn't just how it looks. It's how it works. — Steve Jobs

I think [the design] sucks. Its shape is not innovative, it's not elegant and it doesn't feel anthropomorphic. — Steve Jobs

It [what you choose to do] has got to be something that you're passionate about because otherwise you won't have the perseverance to see it through. — Steve Jobs

Technology alone is not enough. — Steve Jobs

One of the failures of technology companies is that they build technologies thinking everything else will work out. — Steve Jobs

You've heard of plug-and-play. This is plug, unplug and play. It's so simple to use, it's unbelievable. — Steve Jobs

Sometimes, to relieve stress, he would soak his feet in the toilet, a practice that was not as soothing for his collegues. — Walter Isaacson

Kick-start your brain. New ideas come from watching something, talking to people, experimenting, asking questions and getting out of the office! — Steve Jobs

I'm not saying I'm smarter than Steve Jobs was, but I would have made the iPhone charger cord twice as long. — Daniel Tosh

Steve Jobs was a pretty complicated character and somewhat a psychologically complicated guy. — Ashton Kutcher

Computers themselves, and software yet to be developed, will revolutionize the way we learn. — Steve Jobs

Do we have Steve Jobs to thank for the iPod and iPod shuffle? iTunes? I think so. He changed the way we hear and think about music ... — John Taylor

The iPod is a perfect example of Steve [Jobs]' methodology of starting with the user and looking at the entire end-to-end system. — John Sculley

I think Steve Jobs is a historic figure. He's not only a historic figure in business, but really in America. — Walt Mossberg

You either did or you didn't - there is no try. - Steve Jobs. — Adam Lashinsky

I once said, 'Steve Jobs is the American Xavier Niel,' but that was humour. — Xavier Niel

Sometimes when you innovate, you make mistakes. It is best to admit them quickly, and get on with improving your other innovations. — Steve Jobs

He not busy being born is busy dying — Steve Jobs

I think the Macintosh was created by a group of people who felt that ah there wasn't a strict vision between sort of science and art. — Steve Jobs

Don't let the voice of other people's opinion drown your inner voice. — Steve Jobs

The most precious resource we have is time. — Steve Jobs

Our friends up north spend over five billion dollars on research and development and all they seem to do is copy Google and Apple. — Steve Jobs

I'd been rejected, but I was still in love, so I decided to start over. — Steve Jobs

Great art stretches the taste, it doesn't follow tastes. — Steve Jobs

Focus does not mean saying yes, it means saying no. — Steve Jobs

I'm as proud of many of the things we haven't done as the things we have done. Innovation is saying no to a thousand things. — Steve Jobs

Design is not just what it looks like and feels like. Design is how it works. — Steve Jobs

Customers don't know what they want until we've shown them. — Walter Isaacson

Without death there would be very little progress. — Steve Jobs

We did not enter the search business. [Google] entered the phone business. Make no mistake they want to kill the iPhone. We won't let them. — Steve Jobs

Do not try to do everything. Do one thing well. — Steve Jobs

I think that genius comes not just from having great mental processing power. It comes from being able to, as Steve Jobs' ad said, think different. — Walter Isaacson

I would trade all of my technology for an afternoon with Socrates. — Steve Jobs

Pretend to be completely in control and people will assume that you are. — Walter Isaacson

I'm not dismissing the value of higher education; I'm simply saying it comes at the expense of experience. — Steve Jobs

When I wasnt sure what the word charisma meant, I met Steve Jobs and then I knew. — Larry Tesler

And the only way to do great work is to love what you do ... Don't settle — Steve Jobs

I used to sleep on the floor in friends' rooms, returning Coke
bottles for food, money, and getting weekly free meals at a local temple — Steve Jobs

If a user is having a problem, it's our problem. — Steve Jobs

Expose yourself to the best things humans have done and then try to bring those things into what you are doing. — Steve Jobs

Unlike other product developers, Jobs did not believe the customer was always right; if they wanted to resist using a mouse, they were wrong. — Walter Isaacson

That's my job - to make sure everything is great. — Steve Jobs

The web is just going to be one more of those major change factors that businesses face every decade. — Steve Jobs

He was a man too busy to flush toilets. — Mona Simpson

Great things in business are never done by one person. They're done by a team of people. — Steve Jobs

Your customers dream of a happier and better life. Don't move products. Instead, enrich lives. — Steve Jobs

Mistakes will be made — Steve Jobs

I get asked a lot why Apple's customers are so loyal. It's not because they belong to the Church of Mac! That's ridiculous. — Steve Jobs

Computers are like a bicycle for our minds — Steve Jobs

Steve Jobs had his critics. Some saw him as an egomaniac, and others, as a control freak. — Kevin O'Leary

Steve Jobs told the Macintosh team that real artists ship. — Eric Schmidt

Otherwise, as Dylan says, if you're not busy being born, you're busy dying. — Walter Isaacson

To model yourself after Steve Jobs is like, 'I'd like to paint like Picasso, what should I do? Should I use more red?' — Larry Ellison

I wish developing great products was as easy as writing a check. If that was the case, Microsoft would have great products. — Steve Jobs

Every child should learn to program a computer because it will teach you how to think. — Steve Jobs

The Macintosh was supposed to be the computer for people that just wanted to use a computer without having to learn how to use one. — Steve Jobs

My girlfriend always laughs during sex - no matter what she's reading. — Steve Jobs

People equated burning CDs with theft. That's not what burning CDs is. Theft is about acquiring the music from the Internet. — Steve Jobs

To have your whole music library with you at all times is a quantum leap in listening to music. How do we possibly do this? — Steve Jobs

You've got to have a problem that you want to solve; a wrong that you want to right. — Steve Jobs

I'm going to destroy Android, because it's a stolen product. I'm willing to go thermonuclear war on this. — Steve Jobs

I absolutely do not need a salary or a job, that's the last thing I need. — Steve Wozniak

Everything is important- that success is in the details. — Steve Jobs

Somewhere between the janitor and the CEO, reasons stop mattering. — Steve Jobs

Since Steve Jobs died I cannot bear to see anyone use an iPhone irreverently, what I did was a tribute to his memory. — Russell Brand

Life is short and we're all going to die very soon — Steve Jobs

Steve Jobs, if he had lived, was gonna design an iCar. I think cars have an extraordinary opportunity for cool design. — Mickey Drexler

Steve Jobs was Apple; Sir Alex Ferguson is Manchester United, — David Gill

Oh wow. Oh wow. Oh wow. — Steve Jobs

Steve Jobs, the pioneer of the computer as a jail made cool, designed to sever fools from their freedom, has died. — Richard Stallman

If every basketball player worked as hard as I did, I'd be out of a job — Steve Nash

Let them know precisely what you are going to do with their data — Steve Jobs

Customers don't measure you on how hard you tried, they measure you on what you deliver. — Steve Jobs

Your time on this earth is limited, don't live someone else's life, live by your vision — Steve Jobs

Electronics was something I could always fall back on when I needed food on the table. — Steve Jobs

Apple's market share is bigger than BMW's or Mercedes's or Porsche's in the automotive market. What's wrong with being BMW or Mercedes? — Steve Jobs

I am a fruitarian and I will only eat leaves picked by virgins in the moonlight - Steve Jobs — Walter Isaacson

When you're in a startup, the first ten people will determine whether the company succeeds or not. — Steve Jobs

You've baked a really lovely cake, but then you've used dog shit for frosting. — Steve Jobs

Autobiography of a Yogi by Paramahansa Yogananda, which was Steve Jobs's favorite book. 9. — Vishen Lakhiani

Love what you do ... Don't settle — Steve Jobs

Focus is saying no to 1,000 good ideas. — Steve Jobs

We truly could have used the later Jobs in earlier years at Apple, is what I feel. — Steve Wozniak

Get closer than ever to your customers. So close that you tell them what they need well before they realize it themselves — Steve Jobs

There is a book on Amazon: Destroying cancer (Tumors) with Ultrasound
Why nobody, not even his doctors told him about this method? ! ? ! — Steve Jobs

If you can't connect the Dots, Find the right dots first. — Mohith Agadi

Sometimes life hits with a brick in the head, don't lose hope.
-Steve Jobs. — Steve Jobs

I know from my own education that if I hadn't encountered two or three individuals that spent extra time with me, I'm sure I would have been in jail. — Steve Jobs

Be ready to catch the ball when it is thrown by life. — Steve Jobs

The Japanese have hit the shores like dead fish. They're just like dead fish washing up on the shores. — Steve Jobs

Follow your heart, but check it with your head. — Steve Jobs

What we're doing here will send a giant ripple through the universe. — Steve Jobs

There are sneakers that cost more than an iPod. — Steve Jobs

Design is the fundamental soul of a human-made creation that ends up expressing itself in successive outer layers of the product or service. — Steve Jobs