Inspirations Quotes by Steve Jobs
“Sometimes when you innovate, you make mistakes. It is best to admit
them quickly, and get on with improving your other innovations.”
“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 to me.”
“We’ve gone through the operating system and looked at everything and
asked how can we simplify this and make it more powerful at the same
time.”
“Be a yardstick of quality. Some people aren’t used to an environment where excellence is expected.”
“I want to put a ding in the universe.”
“I was worth over $1,000,000 when I was 23, and over $10,000,000 when
I was 24, and over $100,000,000 when I was 25, and it wasn’t that
important because I never did it for the money.”
“The Japanese have hit the shores like dead fish. They’re just like dead fish washing up on the shores.”
“Unfortunately, people are not rebelling against Microsoft. They don’t know any better.”
“Bill Gates‘d be a broader guy if he had dropped acid once or gone off to an ashram when he was younger.”
“The only problem with Microsoft is they just have no taste. They
have absolutely no taste. And I don’t mean that in a small way, I mean
that in a big way, in the sense that they don’t think of original ideas,
and they don’t bring much culture into their products.”
“My job is to not be easy on people. My job is to make them better.”
“We made the buttons on the screen look so good you’ll want to lick them.”
“Click. Boom. Amazing!”
“You can’t just 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.”
“Design is not just what it looks like and feels like. Design is how it works.”
“Why join the navy if you can be a pirate?”
“A lot of companies have chosen to downsize, and maybe that was the
right thing for them. We chose a different path. Our belief was that if
we kept putting great products in front of customers, they would
continue to open their wallets.”
“Innovation distinguishes between a leader and a follower.”
“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. But it’s worth it in the end because once you get
there, you can move mountains.”
“Picasso had a saying: ‘Good artists copy, great artists steal.’ We
have always been shameless about stealing great ideas…I think part of
what made the Macintosh great was that the people working on it were
musicians, poets, artists, zoologists and historians who also happened
to be the best computer scientists in the world.”
“[Y]ou 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.”
“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. Because almost
everything — all external expectations, all pride, all fear of
embarrassment or failure – these things just fall away in the face of
death, leaving only what is truly important. 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. … Stay hungry. Stay foolish.”
Stay hungry. Stay foolish
We miss you STEVE !
