Steve Jobs Quotes

“Do you want to sell sugar water for the rest of your life, or do you want to come with me and change the world?”

“The people who are crazy enough to think they can change the world are the ones who do”

“The only way to do great work is to love what you do”

“Your work is going to fill a large part of your life, and the only way to be truly satisfied is to do what you believe is great work”

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

“Every dream that you leave behind is a piece of your future that ceases to exist.”

“Stay hungry, stay foolish.”

“Sometimes life hits you in the head with a brick. Don’t lose faith.”

“You can’t connect the dots looking forward; you can only connect them looking backward.”

“Your time is limited, so don’t waste it living someone else’s life.”

“Have the courage to follow your heart and intuition. They somehow already know what you truly want to become”

“Remembering that you are going to die is the best way I know to avoid the trap of thinking you have something to lose. You are already naked. There is no reason not to follow your heart.”

“Don’t let the noise of others’ opinions drown out your own inner voice”

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

“You have to be burning with an idea, or a problem, or a wrong that you want to right. If you're not passionate enough from the start, you'll never stick it out.”

“People think focus means saying yes to the thing you've got to focus on. But that's not what it means at all. It means saying no to the hundred other good ideas that there are.”

“It comes down to trying to expose yourself to the best things that humans have done and then try to bring those things in to what you're doing.”

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

“If you really look closely, most overnight successes took a long time.”

“I'm convinced that about half of what separates the successful entrepreneurs from the non-successful ones is pure perseverance”

“Great things in business are never done by one person. They're done by a team of people.”

“The greatest people are self-managing—they don't need to be managed. Once they know what to do, they'll go figure out how to do it. What they need is a common vision. And that's what leadership is.”

“Remembering that I'll be dead soon is the most important tool I've ever encountered to help me make the big choices in life.”

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

“Creativity is just connecting things”

“Innovation distinguishes between a leader and a follower.”

“Innovation is the ability to see change as an opportunity, not a threat.”

“You can't ask customers what they want and then try to give that to them. By the time you get it built, they'll want something new.”

“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.”

“The most powerful person in the world is the storyteller.”

“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.”

“My job is not to be easy on people. My job is to make them better.”

“It's really hard to design products by focus groups. A lot of times, people don't know what they want until you show it to them.”

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

“If you don't cannibalize yourself, someone else will.”

“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”