14 Incredible quotes from a one of a kind businessman, designer, and entrepreneur â Steve Jobs.
Steve Jobs Quote â On making a change
âBeing the richest man in the cemetery doesnât matter to me ⌠Going to bed at night saying weâve done something wonderful⌠thatâs what matters to me.â â Steve Jobs
Steve Jobs Quote â On character
âIâm the only person I know thatâs lost a quarter of a billion dollars in one yearâŚ. Itâs very character-building.â
[Apple Confidential 2.0]
Steve Jobs Quote â On character
âYou canât 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 â your gut, destiny, life, karma, whatever. This approach has never let me down, and it has made all the difference in my life.â
[Stanford commencement speech, June 2005]
Steve Jobs Quote â Have faith in the future
âThatâs been one of my mantras â focus and simplicity. Simple can be harder than complex: You have to work hard to get your thinking clean to make it simple. But itâs worth it in the end because once you get there, you can move mountains.â
[BusinessWeek, May 25, 1998]
Steve Jobs Quote â Best sales line ever
âDo you want to spend the rest of your life selling sugared water or do you want a chance to change the world?â
[The line he used to lure John Sculley into becoming Apple’s CEO, according to Odyssey: Pepsi to Apple]
Steve Jobs Quote â On his outlook
âBeing the richest man in the cemetery doesnât matter to me ⌠Going to bed at night saying weâve done something wonderful⌠thatâs what matters to me.â
[The Wall Street Journal, May 25, 1993]
Steve Jobs Quote â On design
âItâs really hard to design products by focus groups. A lot of times, people donât know what they want until you show it to them.â
[BusinessWeek, May 25, 1998]
Steve Jobs Quote â On your working life
âYour 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 havenât found it yet, keep looking. Donât settle. As with all matters of the heart, youâll 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. Donât settle.â
[Stanford commencement speech, June 2005]
Steve Jobs Quote â Heâll always come back
âIâll always stay connected with Apple. I hope that throughout my life Iâll sort of have the thread of my life and the thread of Apple weave in and out of each other, like a tapestry. There may be a few years when Iâm not there, but Iâll always come back.â
[Playboy, Feb. 1, 1985]
Steve Jobs Quote â On his role at Apple
âThis is not a one-man show. Whatâs reinvigorating this company is two things: One, thereâs a lot of really talented people in this company who listened to the world tell them they were losers for a couple of years, and some of them were on the verge of starting to believe it themselves. But theyâre not losers. What they didnât have was a good set of coaches, a good plan. A good senior management team. But they have that now.â
[BusinessWeek, May 25, 1998]
Steve Jobs Quote â On the importance of death
âNo one wants to die. Even people who want to go to heaven donât want to die to get there. And yet death is the destination we all share. No one has ever escaped it. And that is as it should be, because Death is very likely the single best invention of Life. It is Lifeâs change agent. It clears out the old to make way for the new. Right now the new is you, but someday not too long from now, you will gradually become the old and be cleared away. Sorry to be so dramatic, but it is quite true.â
[Stanford commencement speech, June 2005]
Steve Jobs Quote â Donât sit still
âI 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 whatâs next.â
[NBC Nightly News, May 2006]
Steve Jobs Quote â On computers
âIt takes these very simple-minded instructionsââGo fetch a number, add it to this number, put the result there, perceive if itâs greater than this other numberâââbut executes them at a rate of, letâs say, 1,000,000 per second. At 1,000,000 per second, the results appear to be magic.â
[Playboy, Feb. 1, 1985]
Steve Jobs Quote â Having pride in your product
Playboy: âAre you saying that the people who made PCjr donât have that kind of pride in the product?â
Jobs: âIf they did, they wouldnât have made the PCjr.â
[Playboy, Feb. 1, 1985]