Steve Jobs Quotes

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Steve Jobs

Profession : Businessman

Birth : February 24, 1955

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

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The only way to do great work is to love what you do.

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

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

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Your 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.

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A lot of people in our industry haven't had very diverse experiences. So they don't have enough dots to connect, and they end up with very linear solutions without a broad perspective on the problem. The broader one's understanding of the human experience, the better design we will have.

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Your 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 haven't found it yet, keep looking. Don't settle. As with all matters of the heart, you'll know when you find it.

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Bottom line is, I didn't return to Apple to make a fortune. I've been very lucky in my life and already have one. When I was 25, my net worth was $100 million or so. I decided then that I wasn't going to let it ruin my life. There's no way you could ever spend it all, and I don't view wealth as something that validates my intelligence.

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My favorite things in life don't cost any money. It's really clear that the most precious resource we all have is time.

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Innovation has nothing to do with how many R & D dollars you have. When Apple came up with the Mac, IBM was spending at least 100 times more on R & D. It's not about money. It's about the people you have, how you're led, and how much you get it.

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I think money is a wonderful thing because it enables you to do things. It enables you to invest in ideas that don't have a short-term payback.

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Pretty much, Apple and Dell are the only ones in this industry making money. They make it by being Wal-Mart. We make it by innovation.

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

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Technology is nothing. What's important is that you have a faith in people, that they're basically good and smart, and if you give them tools, they'll do wonderful things with them.

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It's not a faith in technology. It's faith in people.

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It's not the tools that you have faith in - tools are just tools. They work, or they don't work. It's people you have faith in or not. Yeah, sure, I'm still optimistic I mean, I get pessimistic sometimes but not for long.

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Your time is limited, so don't waste it living someone else's life. Don't be trapped by dogma - which is living with the results of other people's thinking. Don't let the noise of others' opinions drown out your own inner voice. And most important, have the courage to follow your heart and intuition.

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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.

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We made the buttons on the screen look so good you'll want to lick them.

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

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