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

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

If you are working on something exciting that you really care about, you don't have to be pushed. The vision pulls you.

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

Everything around you that you call life was made up by people, and you can change it.

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

Sometimes life hits you in the head with a brick. Don't lose faith.

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

I think death is the most wonderful invention of life. It purges the system of these old models that are obsolete.

It's like giving a glass of ice water to somebody in hell
about iTunes on Windows computers

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

I want to make a dent in the universe

Innovation means saying 'no' to a thousand things.

You are all over the map, figure out the top 5 things you want to focus on and get rid of the rest.

I think we're having fun. I think our customers really like our products. And we're always trying to do better.

The roots of apple were to build computers for people, not for corporations. The world doesn't need another dell or compaq.

You've probably had somebody punch you in the stomach and it knocks the wind of you and you can't breathe. That's how I felt.

You can't look at the competition and say you're going to do it better. You have to look at the competition and say you're going to do it differently.

A brand is simply trust.

If you live each day as it was your last, someday you'll most certainly be right

Computers are like a bicycle for the mind.

All the work I've done in my life will be obsolete by the time I'm fifty.

Why join the navy if you can be a pirate?

Creativity comes from spontaneous meetings, from random discussions.

I found that there were these incredibly great people at doing certain things, and you couldn't replace one of these people with fifty average people.

Pretty much, Apple and Dell are the only ones in this industry making money. They make it by being Wal-Mart. We make it by innovation.

I was lucky
I found what I love to do early in life,

Don't just live a life; build one.

I hate the way people use PowerPoints instead of thinking

Make it like a sunflower.

Don't be afraid, you can do it.

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

Let's make a dent in the universe

The journey is the reward

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

I think Pixar has the opportunity to be the next Disney
not replace Disney
but be the next Disney.

Overnight success stories take a long time.

It isn't the consumers' job to know what they want.

We limit how much technology our kids use at home

I'm one of those people that think Thomas Edison and the light bulb changed the world more than Karl Marx ever did.

Real artists ship.

We do not say anything about future products. We work on them in secret, then we announce them.

Pixar is the most technically advanced creative company; Apple is the most creatively advanced technical company.

Making an enduring company was both harder and more important than making a great product.

Guess who surprised themselves and changed their minds.

My opinion is that the only two computer companies that are software-driven are Apple and NeXT , and I wonder about Apple.

IMac is next year's computer for $1,299, not last year's computer for $999.

Apple stores are intended not just to move boxes, but to enrich lives.

None of us are as creative as all of us.

My job is to make the whole executive team good enough to be successors, so that's what I try to do.

To follow the path that others have laid before you is a reasonable course of action; therefore all progress is made by unreasonable men.

Pixar is seen by a lot of folks as an overnight success, but if you really look closely, most overnight successes took a long time.

Do you want to sell sugar water all your life, or do you want to come with me and change the world?

We don't settle for anything less than excellence.

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

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

You have to have a lot of passion for what you do ... because if you don't, any rational person would give up.

Pursue your dreams and see the opportunities in life's setbacks.

I sat in a garage and invented the future.

Focusing is about saying No.

Sometimes life hits you like a brick in the face. Don't give up.

I admire Mark Zuckerberg ... for not selling out, for wanting to make a company. I admire that a lot.

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.

The most precious resource we have is time.

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

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.

Life can be much broader once you discover one simple fact: Everything you call life was made up by people no smarter than you.

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?

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

Focus is saying no to 1,000 good ideas.

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

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

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

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

Oh wow. Oh wow. Oh wow.

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

We made the buttons on the screen look so good you'll want to lick them.

To do anything of magnitude takes at least five years, more likely seven or eight. Rightfully or wrongfully, that's how I think.

Be a yardstick of quality. Some people aren't used to an environment where excellence is expected.

It's not done until it ships.

Good PR educates people; that's all it is. You can't con people in this business. The products speak for themselves.

If today were my last day, would I do what I'm doing? ... If the answer was 'No' too many days in a row, I'd make a change.

We believe people with Passion CAN change the World for the Better. -Steve Jobs

And we've all chosen to do this with our lives. So it better be damn good. It better be worth it.

There are downsides to everything; there are unintended consequences to everything.

The thing that bound us together at Apple was the ability to make things that were going to change the world. That was very important.

It's not the customers' job to know what they want.

I have enough to last for the rest of my life.

The greatest artists like Dylan, Picasso and Newton risked failure. And if we want to be great, we've got to risk it too.

Creativity is just connecting things.

We hire people who want to make the best things in the world.

The creative industries tend to dismiss technology as just something to buy and not understand how hard it is and how creative it can be as well.

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

Some mistakes will be made along the way. That's good. Because some decisions are being made along the way. We'll find the mistakes. We'll fix them.

A-plus players like to work together and they don't like it if you tolerate B work

By honoring the lives of those we admire, we make our own values known.

The tragedy is that Dell didn't win it - we lost it.

The things I've done in my life have required a lot of years
of work before they took off.

One: demonstrations always crash. And two: the probability of them crashing goes up exponentially with the number of people watching.