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Steve Jobs Quotes - Page 12

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This is what customers pay us for - to sweat all these details so it's easy and pleasant for them to use our computers. We're supposed to be really good at this. That doesn't mean we don't listen to customers, but it's

This is what customers pay us for - to sweat all these details so it's easy and pleasant for them to use our computers. We're supposed to be really good at this. That doesn't mean we don't listen to customers, but it's hard for them to tell you what they want when they've never seen anything remotely like it.

Educational, Mean, Sweat

Somebody once told me, ‘Manage the top line, and the bottom line will follow.’ What's the top line? It's things like, why are we doing this in the first place? What's our strategy? What are customers saying? How responsive are we? Do we have the best products and the best people? Those are the kind of questions you have to focus on.

People, Focus, Lines

Steve Jobs (0101). “Motivating Thoughts of Steve Jobs”, p.86, Prabhat Prakashan

There's an old Wayne Gretzky quote that I love. 'I skate to where the puck is going to be, not where it has been.' And we've always tried to do that at Apple. Since the very, very beginning. And we always will.

Apples, Puck, Wayne

Steve Jobs (0101). “Motivating Thoughts of Steve Jobs”, p.72, Prabhat Prakashan

If Macintosh hadn't been successful, then I should have just thrown in the towel, because my vision of the whole industry would have been totally wrong.

Successful, Should Have, Vision

"Playboy Interview: Steve Jobs". Interview With David Sheff, reprints.longform.org. February 1985.

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

Inspirational, Best Job, Buttons

"Fortune" Magazine, January 24, 2000.

Because believing that the dots will connect down the road will give you the confidence to follow your heart even when it leads you off the well worn path.

Believe, Heart, Giving

Commencement Address at Stanford University, delivered 12 June 2005, Palo Alto, CA

We had nothing to lose and everything to gain.

Gains, Nothing To Lose, Colonization

I think the biggest innovations of the 21st century will be at the intersection of biology and technology. A new era is beginning.

Thinking, Technology, Innovation

"Steve Jobs’s Dying Realization About Biology and Technology" by Luke Timmerman, www.xconomy.com. December 5, 2011.

Death is very likely the single best invention of life.

Change, Graduation, Death

Commencement Address at Stanford University, delivered 12 June 2005, Palo Alto, CA

I think the artistry is in having an insight into what one sees around them. Generally putting things together in a way no one else has before and finding a way to express that to other people who don't have that insight.

Inspiring, Thinking, People

I'd rather be a Pirate than join the Navy

Pirate, Navy

It's more fun to be a pirate than to join the Navy.

Memorable, Best Job, Pirate

"Odyssey: Pepsi to Apple - A Journey of Adventure, Ideas, and the Future" by John Sculley and John A. Byrne, (p. 157), 1987.

Of course it was impossible to connect the dots looking forward when I was in college. But it was very, very clear looking backwards 10 years later.

College, Years, Calligraphy

Commencement Address at Stanford University, delivered 12 June 2005, Palo Alto, CA

There's no other company that could make a MacBook Air and the reason is that not only do we control the hardware, but we control the operating system. And it is the intimate interaction between the operating system and the hardware that allows us to do that. There is no intimate interaction between Windows and a Dell notebook.

Notebook, Air, Window

Steve Jobs (0101). “Motivating Thoughts of Steve Jobs”, p.31, Prabhat Prakashan

The were good times, there were hard times, but there were never bad times

Hard Times, Good Times, Bad Times

What a computer is to me is the most remarkable tool that we have ever come up with. It's the equivalent of a bicycle for our minds.

Inspirational, Memorable, Technology

Steve Jobs (0101). “Motivating Thoughts of Steve Jobs”, p.86, Prabhat Prakashan

The axis today is not liberal and conservative, the axis is constructive-destructive.

Axes, Today, Conservative

The web is not going to change the world, certainly not in the next 10 years. It's going to augment the world. And once you're in this web-augmented space, you're going to see that democratization takes place.

Years, Space, World

"Steve Jobs: The Next Insanely Great Thing". Interview With Gary Wolf, www.wired.com. February 1, 1996.

Stay Hungry. Stay Foolish. And I have always wished that for myself. And now, as you graduate to begin anew, I wish that for you.

Stanford University, Wish, Graduates

Commencement Address at Stanford University, delivered 12 June 2005, Palo Alto, CA

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.

Life, Running, Jobs

"Steve Jobs speaks out". archive.fortune.com. March 7, 2008.

Innovation distinguishes a leader from a follower.

Leader, Innovation, Followers

We're gambling on our vision, and we would rather do that than make "me too" products. Let some other companies do that. For us, it's always the next dream.

Inspirational, Inspiring, Dream

Steve Jobs (0101). “Motivating Thoughts of Steve Jobs”, p.87, Prabhat Prakashan

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.

Running, Crazy, Creativity

"Steve Jobs". Book by Walter Isaacson, www.businessinsider.com. 2011.

A-plus players like to work together and they don't like it if you tolerate B work.

Player, Working Together, Plus

"Steve Jobs". Book by Walter Isaacson, www.businessinsider.com. 2011.

And I sort of look at us as two of the luckiest guys [Bill Gates the other] on the planet because we found what we loved to do and we were at the right place at the right time and we've gotten to go to work every day with super bright people for 30 years and do what we love doing.

Happiness, Years, Two

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