Authors:

A
B
C
D
E
F
G
H
I
J
K
L
M
N
O
P
Q
R
S
T
U
V
W
X
Y
Z

Steve Jobs Quotes - Page 3

All Quotes Age Art Belief Business Change College Communication Consciousness Country Creativity Curiosity Death Design Desire Destiny Discipline Dying Earth Entrepreneurship Excellence Expectations Failing Feelings Focus Fun Future Giving Giving Up Graduation Hard Work Hate Heart Home Humanity Ibm Innovation Inspirational Inspiring Internet Intuition Karma Knowledge Leadership Learning Life Listening Magic Management Marketing Money Morning Motivation Motivational Navy Opportunity Passion Perseverance Positive Progress Quality Revolution Risk Running School Science Selling Simplicity Sleep Soul Strategy Success Team Technology Time Today Trust Understanding Universe Values Vision Water Wealth Winning Wisdom Work Work Out Worry Writing

I'm convinced that about half of what separates successful entrepreneurs from the non-successful ones is pure perseverance.

I'm convinced that about half of what separates successful entrepreneurs from the non-successful ones is pure perseverance.

Inspirational, Motivational, Change

Excerpts from an Oral History Interview with Daniel Morrow: "Advice for Future Entrepreneurs", americanhistory.si.edu. April 20, 1995.

People don't know what they want until you show it to them. That's why I never rely on marketing research. Our task is to read things that are not yet on the page.

People, Marketing, Tasks

Steve Jobs (0101). “Motivating Thoughts of Steve Jobs”, p.36, Prabhat Prakashan

That's been one of my mantras - focus and simplicity. Simple can be harder than complex.

Inspirational, Change, Life Changing

Steve Jobs (0101). “Motivating Thoughts of Steve Jobs”, p.44, Prabhat Prakashan

Your work is going to fill a large part of your life... so love what you do. Your time is limited. Don't waste it.

Waste

You can't win on innovation unless you have a way to communicate it to customers.

Winning, Innovation, Way

Do your best at every job. Don't sleep! Success generates more success so be hungry for it. Hire good people with a passion for excellence.

Jobs, Passion, Sleep

I began to realize that an intuitive understanding and consciousness was more significant than abstract thinking and intellectual logical analysis. Intuition is a very powerful thing, more powerful than intellect, in my opinion. That's had a big impact on my work.

Powerful, Thinking, Impact

We don't settle for anything less than excellence.

Excellence, Acting, Consciousness

You've got to have a problem that you want to solve; a wrong that you want to right.

Inspirational, Leadership, Want

Focusing is all about saying no

Saying No

My job is not to be easy on people. My job is to take these great people we have and to push them and make them even better.

Motivational, Leadership, Jobs

Without passion, any rational person would give up!

Giving Up, Passion, Rational

Remembering that I’ll be dead soon is the most important tool I’ve ever encountered to help make the big choices in life. Remembering that you are going to die is the best way I know to avoid the trap of thinking you have something to lose.

Thinking, Best Job, Stanford University

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

You are all over the map, figure out the top 5 things you want to focus on and get rid of the rest.

Focus, Maps, Want

Each dream you leave behind is a part of your future that will no longer exist.

Dream, Your Future, Our Future

Design is not just what it looks like and feels like. Design is how it works.

Inspiring, Business, Work

Steve Jobs (0101). “Motivating Thoughts of Steve Jobs”, p.37, Prabhat Prakashan

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.

Love, Inspirational, Life

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

The real art is knowing what to leave out, not what to put in.

Art, Real, Knowing

We're not going to be the first to this party, but we're going to be the best.

Inspirational, Party, Firsts

Be a yardstick of quality. Some people aren't used to an environment where excellence is expected.

Inspirational, Motivational, Leadership

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

Again, 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. You have to trust in something - your gut, destiny, life, karma, whatever. This approach has never let me down, and it has made all the difference in my life.

Inspirational, Life, Inspiring

"Edgewalkers: People and Organizations That Take Risks, Build Bridges, and". Book by Judi Neal, p. 163, October 30, 2006.

To me, ideas are worth nothing unless executed. They are just a multiplier. Execution is worth millions.

Ideas, Execution, Millions

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.

Change, Inspiring, Life Changing

"The 13 Most Memorable Quotes From Steve Jobs" by Dylan Love, www.businessinsider.com. October 5, 2011.

Your time on this earth is limited, don’t live someone else's life, live by your vision.

Vision, Earth, Live By

You should never go to a meeting or make a telephone call without a clear idea of what you are trying to achieve.

Ideas, Discipline, Trying

You May Also Like: