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Steve Jobs Quotes

Total quotes: 30
“Most people never pick up the phone, most people never ask. And that’s what separates the people that do things from the people that just dream about them. You gotta act. And you gotta be willing to fail.”
— Steve Jobs, Steve Jobs on Failure
Tagged: Dreams, Dreaming, act, Acting, Action, Drive, Actions For A Better Life, Failure, Willingness, willingness to fail, willing to fail, Failing, Risk Taking, risking, Inspirational, Motivational
“Don’t let the noise of others’ opinions drown out your own inner voice.”
— Steve Jobs, Steve Jobs' 2005 Stanford Commencement Address
Tagged: voice, Silence, Power, Thoughts, Opinions, Inner Voice
“I think if you do something and it turns out pretty good, then you should go do something else wonderful, not dwell on it for too long. Just figure out what’s next.”
— Steve Jobs, 25 Steve Jobs Quotes That Will Change the Way You Work—in the Best Way Possible
Tagged: motivation, Money
“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. And the only way to do great work is to love what you do.”
— Steve Jobs, Text of Steve Jobs' Commencement address (2005)
Tagged: Pursuing Your Passion
“Your time is limited, so don't waste it living someone else's life. Don't be trapped by dogma, which is living with the results of other people's thinking. Don't let the noise of others' opinions drown out your own inner voice. And most important, have the courage to follow your heart and intuition. They somehow already know what you truly want to become. Everything else is secondary. ”
— Steve Jobs, Commencement Address at Stanford University, 2005
Tagged: Graduation, Commencement Speech, Advice, Live On Your Terms, Think Different
“We all know this is the one screen we want to do. So let's make it work.”
— Steve Jobs, Steve Jobs
Tagged: Reality Distortion
“What are the five products you want to focus on? Get rid of the rest, because they’re dragging you down.”
— Steve Jobs, Steve Jobs
Tagged: Product Development, Running A Company, Business, Focus
“Have the courage to follow your heart and intuition. They somehow already know what you truly want to become.”
— Steve Jobs, 365 Best Inspirational Quotes: Daily Motivation For Your Best Year Ever:
Tagged: Postive, Motivational, Limits
“I'm convinced that about half of what separates successful entrepreneurs from the non-successful ones is pure perseverance.”
— Steve Jobs, 25 Steve Jobs Quotes That Will Change the Way You Work—in the Best Way Possible
Tagged: motivation, Money
“That’s been one of my mantras — focus and simplicity. Simple can be harder than complex; you have to work hard to get your thinking clean to make it simple.”
— Steve Jobs, 20 Most Memorable Quotes From Steve Jobs
Tagged: Motivational, Simple
“You've got to start with the customer experience and work backwards to the technology.”
— Steve Jobs, On Product Design
Tagged: User Experience, Product Design
“My favorite things in life don’t cost any money. It’s really clear that the most precious resource we all have is time.”
— Steve Jobs, 25 Steve Jobs Quotes That Will Change the Way You Work—in the Best Way Possible
Tagged: motivation, Money
“Quality is more important than quantity. One home run is much better than two doubles.”
— Steve Jobs, 25 Steve Jobs Quotes That Will Change the Way You Work—in the Best Way Possible
Tagged: motivation, Money
“You usually go through a period where everybody tells you that you’ve completely failed.”
— Steve Jobs, 25 Steve Jobs Quotes That Will Change the Way You Work—in the Best Way Possible
Tagged: motivation, Money
“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.”
— Steve Jobs, 25 Steve Jobs Quotes That Will Change the Way You Work—in the Best Way Possible
Tagged: motivation, Money
“Sometimes when you innovate, you make mistakes. It is best to admit them quickly, and get on with improving your other innovations.”
— Steve Jobs, 25 Steve Jobs Quotes That Will Change the Way You Work—in the Best Way Possible
Tagged: motivation, Money
“Technology alone is not enough. It's technology married with the liberal arts, married with the humanities, that yields the results that makes our hearts sing.”
— Steve Jobs, Steve Jobs: “Technology Alone Is Not Enough”
Tagged: How To Think, Art and Tech, Technology, Art, humanness, humanity, Soul, Soulfulness, Success, Thinking, Innovation
“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, 25 Steve Jobs Quotes That Will Change the Way You Work—in the Best Way Possible
Tagged: motivation, Money
“For the past 33 years, I have looked in the mirror every morning and asked myself: ‘If today were the last day of my life, would I want to do what I am about to do today?’ And whenever the answer has been ‘No’ for too many days in a row, I know I need to change something.”
— Steve Jobs, 25 Steve Jobs Quotes That Will Change the Way You Work—in the Best Way Possible
Tagged: motivation, Money
“You can’t connect the dots looking forward; you can only connect them looking backwards. So you have to trust that the dots will somehow connect in your future. You have to trust in something – your gut, destiny, life, karma, whatever. This approach has never let me down, and it has made all the difference in my life.”
— Steve Jobs, Stanford Commencement Address, 2005
Tagged: Love, Breakups, Heartbreak, strength, Relationships
“Your time is limited. Don't waste it living someone else's life.”
— Steve Jobs, 19 Inspiring Celebrity Quotes To Live By
Tagged: life advice, Celeb Advice
“You’ve got to find what you love...Don’t settle. As with all matters of the heart, you’ll know when you find it. And, like any great relationship, it just gets better and better as the years roll on. So keep looking until you find it.”
— Steve Jobs, Steve Jobs' Stanford Commencement Address (2005)
Tagged: Love You Haven't Found Yet, Love, Matters Of The Heart, Relationships
“We had to drive a stake in the ground somewhere.”
— Steve Jobs, Steve Jobs
Tagged: Reality Distortion
“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. And the only way to do great work is to love what you do. If you haven't found it yet, keep looking. Don't settle. As with all matters of the heart, you'll know when you find it. ”
— Steve Jobs, The Only Way to do Great Work is to love what you do
Tagged: Work, heart, Following Your Heart, inspiration, Passion
“Oh wow. Oh wow. Oh wow.”
— Steve Jobs, Steve Jobs's last words: 'Oh wow. Oh wow. Oh wow'
Tagged: Beautiful Last Words, Famous, Death
“Getting fired from Apple was the best thing that could have ever happened to me. The heaviness of being successful was replaced by the lightness of being a beginner again. It freed me to enter one of the most creative periods of my life.”
— Steve Jobs, 25 Steve Jobs Quotes That Will Change the Way You Work—in the Best Way Possible
Tagged: motivation, Money
“When you’re a carpenter making a beautiful chest of drawers, you’re not going to use a piece of plywood on the back, even though it faces the wall and nobody will ever see it. You’ll know it’s there, so you’re going to use a beautiful piece of wood on the back. For you to sleep well at night, the aesthetic, the quality, has to be carried all the way through.”
— Steve Jobs, Steve Jobs
Tagged: Craftmanship
“Here’s to the crazy ones, the misfits, the rebels, the troublemakers, the round pegs in the square holes… the ones who see things differently — they’re not fond of rules… You can quote them, disagree with them, glorify or vilify them, but the only thing you can’t do is ignore them because they change things… they push the human race forward, and while some may see them as the crazy ones, we see genius, because the ones who are crazy enough to think that they can change the world, are the ones who do.”
— Steve Jobs, Steve Jobs - Top 10 Quotes. Here's to the crazy ones...
Tagged: Madness, Creativity, Genius
“And the problem with that is that there’s just a tremendous amount of craftsmanship in between a great idea and a great product. And as you evolve that great idea, it changes and grows. 

It never comes out like it starts because you learn a lot more as you get into the subtleties of it. And you also find there are tremendous tradeoffs that you have to make.

There are just certain things you can’t make electrons do. There are certain things you can’t make plastic do. Or glass do. Or factories do. Or robots do.”
— Steve Jobs, Steve Jobs: The Lost Interview
Tagged: Products Grow, Change
“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 that 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 use. Once you learn that, you'll never be the same again.

And the minute that you understand that you can poke life and actually something will, you know if you push in, something will pop out the other side, that you can change it, you can mold it. That's maybe the most important thing. It's to shake off this erroneous notion that life is there and you're just gonna live in it, versus embrace it, change it, improve it, make your mark upon it.

I think that's very important and however you learn that, once you learn it, you'll want to change life and make it better, cause it's kind of messed up, in a lot of ways. Once you learn that, you'll never be the same again.”
— Steve Jobs, Steve Jobs
Tagged: Reality Distortion
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