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Steve Jobs Quotes

“I’m not dismissing the value of higher education; I’m simply saying it comes at the expense of experience.”
— Aaron Sorkin, Steve Jobs
Tagged: Education, Value, Experience
“I love that you don't care how much money a person makes, you care what they make. But what you make isn't supposed to be the part of you.”
— Aaron Sorkin, Steve Jobs
Tagged: Love, Money, Work
“If a fire causes a stampede to the unmarked exits, it'll have been well worth it for those who survive.”
— Aaron Sorkin, Steve Jobs
Tagged: Fire, Stampede, Survival, Worth
“They won't know what they're looking at or why they like it but they'll know they want it.”
— Aaron Sorkin, Steve Jobs
Tagged: Desire, Perspective, Satisfaction
“The musicians play their instruments. I play the orchestra.”
— Aaron Sorkin, Steve Jobs
Tagged: Musicians, Instruments, Orchestra
“I don't want people to dislike me. I'm indifferent to whether they dislike me.”
— Aaron Sorkin, Steve Jobs
Tagged: Personality, Dislike, difference
“Why do people like you who were adopted feel like they were rejected instead of selected?”
— Aaron Sorkin, Steve Jobs
Tagged: Adopted, Rejection, Selected, Perspective
“God sent his only son on a suicide mission, but people like him because he made trees.”
— Aaron Sorkin, Steve Jobs
Tagged: God, Son, mission, Creation
“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
“Raskin had little patience for Jobs's belief that you could distort reality if you had enough passion for your product.”
— Walter Isaacson, Steve Jobs
Tagged: Reality Distortion
“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
“This was a lunatic plan... Apple would never be a consumer products company... We couldn't bend reality to all our dreams of changing the world... High tech could not be designed and sold as a consumer product.”
— John Sculley, Steve Jobs
Tagged: Reality Distortion
“We had to drive a stake in the ground somewhere.”
— Steve Jobs, Steve Jobs
Tagged: Reality Distortion
“Once again, Jobs's reality distortion field pushed them to do what they had thought impossible.”
— Walter Isaacson, Steve Jobs
Tagged: Reality Distortion
“It was a self-fulling distortion. You did the impossible because you didn't realize it was impossible.”
— Debi Coleman, Steve Jobs
Tagged: Reality Distortion
“[Jobs'] reality distortion is when he has an illogical vision of the future... you realize that it can't be true but he somehow makes it true.”
— Walter Isaacson, Steve Jobs
Tagged: Reality Distortion
“A lot of people distort reality, of course. When Jobs did so, it was often a tactic for accomplishing something.”
— Walter Isaacson, Steve Jobs
Tagged: Reality Distortion
“'The best thing to ever happen to Steve is when we fired him, told him to get lost,' Arthur Rock later said. The theory, shared by many, is that tough love made him wiser and more mature. But it's not that simple. At the company he founded after being ousted from Apple, Jobs was able to indulge all of his instincts, both good and bad. He was unbound. The result was a series of spectacular products that were dazzling market flips. This was the true learning experience. What prepared him for the great success he would have in Act III was not his ouster from his Act I at Apple but his brilliant failures in Act II.”
— Walter Isaacson, Steve Jobs
Tagged: Failure
“Steve Jobs was adopted. He asked his parents if that meant they didn't love him: No, you have to understand. We specifically picked you out.”
— Walter Isaacson, Steve Jobs
Tagged: Life, Children
“Steve Jobs hires Paul Rand to design NEXT's logo and requests options: I will solve your problem and you will pay me. You can use what I produce or not, but I will not do options and either way you will pay me.”
— Walter Isaacson, Steve Jobs
Tagged: Life
“The modernist International Style championed by the Bauhaus taught that design should be simple, yet have an expressive spirit.”
— Walter Isaacson, Steve Jobs
Tagged: Bauhaus, Design, Simple Yet Powerful
“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
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