Steve Jobs Life Quotations

Sometimes life hits you in the head with a brick. Don't lose faith.

Innovation distinguishes between a leader and a follower.

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

Your time is limited, so don't waste it living someone else's 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.

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.

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. And, like any great relationship, it just gets better and better as the years roll on.

Our goal is to make the best devices in the world, not to be the biggest.

I believe life is an intelligent thing: that things aren't random.

And no, we don't know where it will lead. We just know there's something much bigger than any of us here.

We don't get a chance to do that many things, and every one should be really excellent. Because this is our life. Life is brief, and then you die, you know? So this is what we've chosen to do with our life.

We hire people who want to make the best things in the world.

I've always wanted to own and control the primary technology in everything we do.

I was lucky - I found what I loved to do early in life. Woz and I started Apple in my parents' garage when I was 20. We worked hard, and in 10 years, Apple had grown from just the two of us in a garage into a $2 billion company with over 4000 employees.

Sometimes life hits you in the head with a brick. Don't lose faith. You've got to find what you love... So keep looking until you find it. Don't settle.

I know it is frustrating to some of our investors that we're not sort of a quarter-to-quarter growth company, ... But the fact is our life is measured in pictures, not quarters. And we are increasing our output.

Life is about creating and living experiences that are worth sharing.

Again, 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.

Simple can be harder than complex. You have to work hard to get your thinking clean to make it simple.

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.

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.

I'm as proud of what we don't do as I am of what we do.

I mean, some people say, 'Oh, God, if [Jobs] got run over by a bus, Apple would be in trouble.' And, you know, I think it wouldn't be a party, but there are really capable people at Apple. My job is to make the whole executive team good enough to be successors, so that's what I try to do.

Don't be trapped by dogma — which is living with the results of other people's thinking.

The minute that you understand that you can poke life and actually 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.

The thing that drives me and my colleagues at both Apple and Pixar is that you see something very compelling to you, and you don't quite know how to get to it, but you know, sometimes intuitively, it's within your grasp. And it's worth putting in years of your life to make it come into existence.

the people who are crazy enough to think they can change the world are the ones who do.

It comes from saying no to 1,000 things to make sure we don't get on the wrong track or try to do too much.

I feel like somebody just punched me in the stomach and knocked all my wind out. I'm only 30 years old and I want to have a chance to continue creating things. I know I've got at least one more great computer in me. And Apple is not going to give me a chance to do that.

If you haven't found it yet, keep looking.

When I hire somebody really senior, competence is the ante. They have to be really smart. But the real issue for me is, Are they going to fall in love with Apple? Because if they fall in love with Apple, everything else will take care of itself. They'll want to do what's best for Apple, not what's best for them, what's best for Steve, or anybody else.

It's rare that you see an artist in his 30s or 40s able to really contribute something amazing.

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.

We're just enthusiastic about what we do.

Don't settle, as with all matters of the heart you'll know when you find it

Your customers dream of a happier and better life. Don't move products. Instead, enrich lives.

Click. Boom. Amazing!

Bill Gates'd be a broader guy if he had dropped acid once or gone off to an ashram when he was younger.

Unfortunately, people are not rebelling against Microsoft. They don't know any better.

Focus and simplicity...once you get there, you can move mountains.

I'm the only person I know that's lost a quarter of a billion dollars in one year. It's very character-building.

It's not about pop culture, and it's not about fooling people, and it's not about convincing people that they want something they don't. We figure out what we want. And I think we're pretty good at having the right discipline to think through whether a lot of other people are going to want it, too. That's what we get paid to do.

Apple has some tremendous assets, but I believe without some attention, the company could, could, could - I'm searching for the right word - could, could die.

You know, I've got a plan that could rescue Apple. I can't say any more than that it's the perfect product and the perfect strategy for Apple. But nobody there will listen to me.

If I were running Apple, I would milk the Macintosh for all it's worth - and get busy on the next great thing. The PC wars are over. Done. Microsoft won a long time ago.