Steve Jobs Quotes

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.

Those who are crazy enough to think they can change the world usually do.

My model for business is The Beatles. They were four guys who kept each other kind of negative tendencies in check. They balanced each other and the total was greater than the sum of the parts. That's how I see business: great things in business are never done by one person, they're done by a team of people.

The thing that bound us together at Apple was the ability to make things that were going to change the world. That was very important.

You have to be burning with an idea, or a problem, or a wrong that you want to right. If you're not passionate enough from the start, you'll never stick it out.

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

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

[Stanford University commencement speech, 2005]

If you live each day as it was your last, someday you'll most certainly be right

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.

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

Stay hungry. Stay foolish.

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.

And the only way to do great work is to love what you do.... Don't settle

I think the world’s a better place because Bill realized that his goal isn’t to be the richest guy in the cemetery, right?

Remembering that you are going to die is the best way I know to avoid the trap of thinking you have something to lose.

One more thing...

There’s a temptation in our networked age to think that ideas can be developed by email and iChat. That’s crazy. Creativity comes from spontaneous meetings, from random discussions. You run into someone, you ask what they’re doing, you say ‘wow,’ and soon you’re cooking up all sorts of ideas.

Let's go invent tomorrow instead of worrying about what happened yesterday.

Do you want to spend the rest of your life selling sugared water or do you want a chance to change the world?

We’re always talking about following your passion. But we’re all part of the flow of history… you’ve got to put something back into the flow of history that’s going to help your community…People will say, this person didn’t just have a passion, he cared about making something that other people could benefit from.