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Steve Jobs Quotes - Page 15

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I'm convinced that about half of what separates the successful entrepreneurs from the non-successful ones is pure perseverance... Unless you have a lot of passion about this, you're not going to survive. You're going to

I'm convinced that about half of what separates the successful entrepreneurs from the non-successful ones is pure perseverance... Unless you have a lot of passion about this, you're not going to survive. You're going to give it up. So you've got to have an idea, or a problem or a wrong that you want to right that you're passionate about otherwise you're not going to have the perseverance to stick it through.

Perseverance, Passion, Successful

"Learning to Use Tools". Interview with Daniel Morrow, americanhistory.si.edu. April 20, 1995.

I'm an optimist in the sense that I believe humans are noble and honorable, and some of them are really smart. I have a very optimistic view of individuals.

Smart, Believe, Optimistic

Steve Jobs (0101). “Motivating Thoughts of Steve Jobs”, p.46, Prabhat Prakashan

The cure for Apple is not cost-cutting. The cure for Apple is to innovate its way out of its current predicament.

Business, Cutting, Best Job

Steve Jobs (0101). “Motivating Thoughts of Steve Jobs”, p.23, Prabhat Prakashan

I think the Macintosh was created by a group of people who felt that ah there wasn't a strict vision between sort of science and art.

Art, Thinking, People

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

Inspirational, Wisdom, Business

"Steve Jobs, the Journey Is the Reward". Book by Jeffrey S. Young, 1988.

Don't be evil is a load of crap.

Evil, Crap, Load

"Google’s ‘Don’t Be Evil’ Mantra Is ‘bullshit,’ Adobe Is Lazy: Apple’s Steve Jobs (Update 2)" by John C Abell, www.wired.com. January 30, 2010.

At Apple, people are putting in 18-hour days. We attract a different type of person—a person who doesn’t want to wait five or ten years to have someone take a giant risk on him or her. Someone who really wants to get in a little over his head and make a little dent in the universe. We are aware that we are doing something significant. We’re here at the beginning of it and we’re able to shape how it goes. Everyone here has the sense that right now is one of those moments when we are influencing the future.

Apples, Years, People

If you view computer designers as artists, they're really into more of an art form that can be mass-produced, like records, or like prints, than they are into fine arts. They want something where they can express themselves to a large number of people through their medium, and their medium is technology and manufacturing.

Art, Technology, Views

"Steve Jobs, 1955 – 2011" by Steven Levy, www.wired.com. October 5, 2011.

The web is just going to be one more of those major change factors that businesses face every decade.

Faces, Major Change, Decades

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

As individuals, people are inherently good. I have a somewhat more pessimistic view of people in groups. And I remain extremely concerned when I see what's happening in our country, which is in many ways the luckiest place in the world. We don't seem to be excited about making our country a better place for our kids.

Country, Kids, Views

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

I've read something that Bill Gates said about six months ago. He said, ‘I worked really, really hard in my 20s.’ And I know what he means, because I worked really, really hard in my 20s too. Literally, you know, 7 days a week, a lot of hours every day. And it actually is a wonderful thing to do, because you can get a lot done. But you can't do it forever, and you don't want to do it forever, and you have to come up with ways of figuring out what the most important things are and working with other people even more.

Mean, People, Forever

It takes these very simple-minded instructions - 'Go fetch a number, add it to this number, put the result there, perceive if it's greater than this other number' - but executes them at a rate of, let's say, 1,000,000 per second. At 1,000,000 per second, the results appear to be magic.

Technology, Simple, Numbers

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

The engineering is long gone in most PC companies. In the consumer electronics companies, they don't understand the software parts of it. And so you really can't make the products that you can make at Apple anywhere else right now. Apple's the only company that has everything under one roof.

Engineering, Apples, Long

Steve Jobs (0101). “Motivating Thoughts of Steve Jobs”, p.41, Prabhat Prakashan

That's what Walt Disney did, and Hewlett and Packard, and the people who built Intel. They created a company to last, not just to make money. That's what I want Apple to be.

Apples, People, Want

"Steve Jobs: The Exclusive Biography". Book by Walter Isaacson, 2011.

Death is very likely the single best invention of life. It is life's change agent. It clears out the old to make way for the new.

Change, Graduation, Death

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

And it comes from saying no to 1,000 things to make sure we don't get on the wrong track or try to do too much. We're always thinking about new markets we could enter, but it's only by saying no that you can concentrate on the things that are really important.

Inspirational, Thinking, Best Job

"The Seed of Apple's Innovation". Bloomberg interview, www.bloomberg.com. October 12, 2004.

I used to sleep on the floor in friends' rooms, returning Coke bottles for food, money, and getting weekly free meals at a local temple

Sleep, Meals, Bottles

The day I was born songs were on records, phones were tied down, computers needed rooms and the web was fiction. Change the world. You can.

Song, Phones, Fiction

The most corrosive piece of technology that I've ever seen is called television - but then, again, television, at its best, is magnificent.

Technology, Television, Pieces

You need to have a collaborative hiring process.

Insightful, Needs, Process

I found that there were these incredibly great people at doing certain things, and you couldn't replace one of these people with fifty average people.

Success, Average, People

It's not about pop culture, and it's not about fooling people, and it's not about convincing people that they want something they don't. We figure out what we want. And I think we're pretty good at having the right discipline to think through whether a lot of other people are going to want it, too. That's what we get paid to do.

Life, Thinking, Want Something

"Steve Jobs: The Apple Co-Founder's Most Memorable Quotes", www.hollywoodreporter.com. October 6, 2011.

You know, Dr. Edwin Land was a troublemaker. He dropped out of Harvard and founded Polaroid. Not only was he one of the great inventors of our time but, more important, he saw the intersection of art and science and business and built an organization to reflect that. Polaroid did that for some years, but eventually Dr. Land, one of those brilliant troublemakers, was asked to leave his own company - which is one of the dumbest things I've ever heard of.

Art, Years, Land

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

When you're young, you look at television and think, there's a conspiracy. The networks have conspired to dumb us down. But when you get a little older, you realize that's not true. The networks are in business to give people exactly what they want.

Business, Thinking, Best Job

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

The technology companies don't understand creative things at all. Silicon Valley's view of the creative process in Hollywood is a bunch of guys in their young thirties sitting on a couch, drinking beer, and thinking up jokes.

Drinking, Beer, Technology

Source: www.esquire.com

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