Steve Jobs Most Inspiring Quotes

Steve Jobs was an American inventor and business magnate. He played a key role in the success of Apple Inc and development of new revolutionary technology such as the iPad, iPod, Macbook. Steve Jobs  and Wozniak  co-founded Apple in 1976 to sell Wozniak’s Apple I personal computer.

Born – February 24, 1955, California, U.S.

Died – October 5, 2011 (56), California, U.S.

Occupation – Co-founder, CEO, chairman of Apple Inc, and Inventor. 

Known for – Apple Inc

“Sometimes life is going to hit you in the head with a brick. Don’t lose faith.” ―  Steve Jobs

 

“Stay Hungry, Stay Foolish.” ―  Steve Jobs

 

“Your time is limited, so don’t waste it living someone else’s life.” ―  Steve Jobs

 

“Innovation distinguishes between a leader and a follower.”  ―  Steve Jobs

 

“Love yourself and what you do – the only key to success.” ―  Steve Jobs

 

“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.” ―  Steve Jobs

 

“Design is not just what it looks like and feels like. Design is how it works.” ―  Steve Jobs

 

“Be a yardstick of quality. Some people aren’t used to an environment where excellence is expected.” ―  Steve Jobs

 

“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.” ―  Steve Jobs

 

“The secret of my success is that we have gone to exceptional lengths to hire the best people in the world.” ―  Steve Jobs

 

“Sometimes when you innovate, you make mistakes. It is best to admit them quickly, and get on with improving your other innovations.” ―  Steve Jobs

 

“If you really look closely, most overnight successes took a long time.” ―  Steve Jobs

 

“It’s not a faith in technology. It’s faith in people.” ―  Steve Jobs

 

“We hire people who want to make the best things in the world.” ―  Steve Jobs

 

“I want to put a ding in the universe.” ―  Steve Jobs

 

“The people who are crazy enough to think they can change the world are the ones who do.” ―  Steve Jobs

 

“It’s really hard to design products by focus groups. A lot of times, people don’t know what they want until you show it to them.” ―  Steve Jobs

 

“Pursue your dreams and see the opportunities in life’s setbacks.” ―  Steve Jobs

 

“If you define the problem correctly, you almost have the Solution.” ―  Steve Jobs

 

“My favorite things in life don’t cost any money. It’s really clear that the most precious resource we all have is time.” ―  Steve Jobs

 

“If you are working on something exciting that you really care about, you don’t have to be pushed. The vision pulls you.” ―  Steve Jobs

 

“Older people sit down and ask, ‘What is it?’ but the boy asks, ‘What can I do with it?’.” ―  Steve Jobs

 

“Get closer than ever to your customers. So close that you tell them what they need well before they realize it themselves.” ―  Steve Jobs

 

“If you’re gonna make connections which are innovative… you have to not have the same bag of experiences as everyone else does.” ―  Steve Jobs

 

“If someone walks out of your Life, it gives someone you need a chance to walk in.” ―  Steve Jobs

 

“Our goal is to make the best devices in the world, not to be the biggest.” ―  Steve Jobs

 

“We’re just enthusiastic about what we do.” ―  Steve Jobs

 

“Everything around you that you call life was made up by people, and you can change it.” ―  Steve Jobs

 

“What is Apple, after all? Apple is about people who think ‘outside the box,’ people who want to use computers to help them change the world, to help them create things that make a difference, and not just to get a job done.” ―  Steve Jobs

 

“The only way to do great work is to love what you do.” ―  Steve Jobs

 

“I’m convinced that about half of what separates successful entrepreneurs from the non-successful ones is pure perseverance.” ―  Steve Jobs

 

“Let’s go invent tomorrow instead of worrying about what happened yesterday.” ―  Steve Jobs

 

“Mistakes teach you important lessons. Every time you encounter one, you’re a step closer to your goal.” ―  Steve Jobs

 

“The most important decisions you make are not the things you do, but the things you decide not to do.”  ―  Steve Jobs

 

“Quality is more important than quantity. one home run is much better than two doubles.” ―  Steve Jobs

 

“Everybody in this country should learn how to program a computer.. because it teaches you how to think.” ―  Steve Jobs

 

“You have to have a lot of passion for what you do… because if you don’t, any rational person would give up.”  ―  Steve Jobs

 

“If today were the last day of my life, would I want to do what I am about to do today?” ―  Steve Jobs

 

“Greatness is More Than Potential; It Requires Skillful Execution of That Potential.” ―  Steve Jobs

 

“When you’re in a startup, the first ten people will determine whether the company succeeds or not.” ―  Steve Jobs

 

“Don’t let the noise of other people’s opinions drown out your own inner voice.” ―  Steve Jobs

 

“Don’t be afraid to ask for help when it comes to hiring!” ―  Steve Jobs

 

“Great things in business are never done by one person; they’re done by a team of people.” ―  Steve Jobs

 

“It’s impossible to fail if you learn from your mistakes. Don’t give up.” ―  Steve Jobs

 

“If you leave your life like every day is the last, One day you are gonna be right.” ―  Steve Jobs

 

“You can’t look at the competition and say you’re going to do it better. You have to look at the competition and say you’re going to do it differently.” ―  Steve Jobs

 

“The journey is the reward.” ―  Steve Jobs

 

“Creativity is just connecting things.” ―  Steve Jobs

 

“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.” ―  Steve Jobs

 

“Have the courage to follow your heart and intuition. They somehow already know what you truly want to become. Everything else is secondary.” ―  Steve Jobs

 

“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.” ―  Steve Jobs

 

“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.” ―  Steve Jobs

 

“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.” ―  Steve Jobs

 

“I’ve always wanted to own and control the primary technology in everything we do.” ―  Steve Jobs

 

“Apple took the edge off the word ‘computer’.” ―  Steve Jobs