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Steve Jobs Quotes - Page 4

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

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

Educational, Loyal Customers, Satisfaction

I hate the way people use PowerPoints instead of thinking

Hate, Thinking, People

Everything around you that you call life was made up by people that were no smarter than you and you can change it, you can influence it, you can build your own things that other people can use.

Leadership, Best Job, People

YouTube Chanel "Silicon Valley Historical Association"/ "From the Documentary Film Steve Jobs: Secrets of Life", www.youtube.com. October 6, 2011.

A brand is simply trust.

Brands

Have the courage to follow your heart and intuition.

Graduation, Heart, Stanford University

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

Pursue your dreams and see the opportunities in life's setbacks.

Dream, Opportunity, Pursue

You go to your TV to turn your brain off. You go to the computer when you want to turn your brain on.

Inspirational, Brain, Want

When you first start off trying to solve a problem, the first solutions you come up with are very complex, and most people stop there. But if you keep going, and live with the problem and peel more layers of the onion off, you can often times arrive at some very elegant and simple solutions.

Inspirational, Persistence, Simple

Newsweek Interview on October 14, 2006. "Steve Jobs Legacy: His Stanford University Address & More Great Quotes" by, www.thedailybeast.com. October 07, 2011.

For the past 33 years, I have looked in the mirror every morning and asked myself: 'If today were the last day of my life, would I want to do what I am about to do today?' And whenever the answer has been 'No' for too many days in a row, I know I need to change something.

Inspirational, Motivational, Change

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

The journey is the reward

Inspirational, Life, Inspiring

Steve Jobs (0101). “Motivating Thoughts of Steve Jobs”, p.53, Prabhat Prakashan

Stay hungry, stay foolish.

Inspirational, Inspiring, Memorable

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

Life is about creating and living experiences that are worth sharing.

Creating, Life Is

Quality is more important than quantity. One home run is much better than two doubles.

Inspirational, Running, Teenager

I don't really care about being right, I just care about success.

Care, About Success, Being Wrong

You have to trust that the dots will somehow connect in your future... 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... Have the courage to follow your heart and intuition. They somehow already know what you truly want to become. Everything else is secondary.

Inspirational, Believe, Heart

Steve Jobs' Commencement Address at Stanford University, news.stanford.edu. June 14, 2005.

Simplicity is the ultimate sophistication. It takes a lot of hard work to make something simple, to truly understand the underlying challenges and come up with elegant solutions. [...] It's not just minimalism or the absence of clutter. It involves digging through the depth of complexity. To be truly simple, you have to go really deep. [...] You have to deeply understand the essence of a product in order to be able to get rid of the parts that are not essential.

Hard Work, Simple, Order

When you start looking at a problem and it seems really simple, you don't really understand the complexity of the problem. Then you get into the problem, and you see that it's really complicated, and you come up with all these convoluted solutions. That's sort of the middle, and that's where most people stop... But the really great person will keep on going and find the key, the underlying principle of the problem - and come up with an elegant, really beautiful solution that works.

Beautiful, Simple, Keys

"Insanely Great: The Life and Times of Macintosh, the Computer that Changed Everything". Book by Steven Levy, www.businessinsider.com. June 1, 2000.

Ask for feedback from people with diverse backgrounds. Each one will tell you one useful thing. If you're at the top of the chain, sometimes people won't give you honest feedback because they're afraid. In this case, disguise yourself, or get feedback from other sources.

People, Giving, Honest Feedback

Creativity is just connecting things. When you ask creative people how they did something, they feel a little guilty because they didn't really do it, they just saw something. It seemed obvious to them after a while. That's because they were able to connect experiences they've had and synthesize new things.

Inspirational, Creativity, Artist

"Steve Jobs: seven lessons from Apple's founder" by Frédéric Filloux, www.theguardian.com. October 10, 2011.

Innovation is usually the result of connections of past experiences. But if you have the same experiences as everyone else, you are unlikely to look in a different direction.

Past, Innovation, Experience

If you don't have a passion, you'll give up.

Giving Up, Passion, Giving

Believe things will work out. How was I ever to know that the girl who broke my heart in university would lead to my soulmate? How was I to know that the ‘dream job’ I was rejected from out of college would lead me to a year of entrepreneurship and adventure in Spain? How was I to know that taking a miserable job back in the states would be just the push I needed to vow to never do something I wasn’t passionate about again? Everything works out. I mean everything. As long as you believe it will. When you do, you will find the silver lining. That will take you to the next level.

Girl, Dream, Soulmate

Intuition is a very powerful thing, more powerful than intellect.

Powerful, Abstract Thinking, Intuition

"The Genius of Jobs". www.nytimes.com. October 29, 2011.

We have always been shameless about stealing great ideas.

Ideas, Best Job, Small Jobs

"Triumph of the Nerds: The Rise of Accidental Empires". PBS Documentary, 1996.

I always thought of myself as a humanities person as a kid, but I liked electronics. Then I read something that one of my heroes, Edwin Land of Polaroid, said about the importance of people who could stand at the intersection of humanities and sciences, and I decided that's what I wanted to do.

Hero, Kids, Land

"The Genius of Jobs" by Walter Isaacson, www.nytimes.com. October 29, 2011.

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