Steve Jobs Quotes
Top 100 wise famous quotes and sayings by Steve Jobs
Steve Jobs Famous Quotes & Sayings
Discover top inspirational quotes from Steve Jobs on Wise Famous Quotes.
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.
One of the failures of technology companies is that they build technologies thinking everything else will work out.
I think death is the most wonderful invention of life. It purges the system of these old models that are obsolete.
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.
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.
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'm one of those people that think Thomas Edison and the light bulb changed the world more than Karl Marx ever did.
Pixar is the most technically advanced creative company; Apple is the most creatively advanced technical company.
My opinion is that the only two computer companies that are software-driven are Apple and NeXT , and I wonder about Apple.
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.
You have to have a lot of passion for what you do ... because if you don't, any rational person would 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.
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?
Get closer than ever to your customers. So close that you tell them what they need well before they realize it themselves
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.
To do anything of magnitude takes at least five years, more likely seven or eight. Rightfully or wrongfully, that's how I think.
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.
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.
The greatest artists like Dylan, Picasso and Newton risked failure. And if we want to be great, we've got to risk it too.
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.