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Steve Jobs Quotes - Page 9

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The customer is the final inspector.

The customer is the final inspector.

Service Culture, Finals, Customers

We do not say anything about future products. We work on them in secret, then we announce them.

Silence, Secret, Say Anything

A lot of time, people don't do great things becoz' great things really aren't expected of them.

People, Great Things, Expected

Do you want to sell sugar water all your life, or do you want to come with me and change the world?

Leadership, Motivation, Water

It isn't the consumers' job to know what they want.

Jobs, Want, Consumers

"Can Apple Find More Hits Without its Tastemaker?" by Steve Lohr, www.cnbc.com. January 18, 2011.

A lot of companies have chosen to downsize, and maybe that was the right thing for them. We chose a different path. Our belief was that if we kept putting great products in front of customers, they would continue to open their wallets.

Inspirational, Business, Educational

Steve Jobs (0101). “Motivating Thoughts of Steve Jobs”, p.32, Prabhat Prakashan

We all have a short period of time on this earth-We probably only have the opportunity to do a few things really great and do them well. None of us has any idea how long we're going to be here nor do I, but my feeling is I've got to accomplish a lot of these things while I'm young.

Opportunity, Ideas, Long

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

I'm as proud of many of the things we haven't done as the things we have done. Innovation is saying no to a thousand things.

Inspirational, Inspiring, Best Job

Steve Jobs (0101). “Motivating Thoughts of Steve Jobs”, p.71, Prabhat Prakashan

Computers themselves, and software yet to be developed, will revolutionize the way we learn.

Way, Computer, Software

We're here to make a dent in the universe. Otherwise, why even be here? We're creating a completely new consciousness, like an artist or a poet. That’s how you have to think of this. We're rewriting the history of human thought with what we're doing.

Artist, Thinking, Creating

Whenever you do any one thing intensely over a period of time you have to give up other lives you could be living. You have to have a real single-minded kind of tunnel vision if you want to get anything significant accomplished. Especially if the desire is not to be a businessman, but to be a creative person.

Giving Up, Real, Tunnels

I hate it when people call themselves 'entrepreneurs' when what they're really trying to do is launch a startup and then sell of go public, so they can cash in and move on. They're unwilling to do the work it takes to build a real company, which is the hardest work in business.

Hate, Real, Moving

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

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.

Life, Best Job, Track

Steve Jobs (0101). “Motivating Thoughts of Steve Jobs”, p.57, Prabhat Prakashan

We live in an information economy. The problem is that information's usually impossible to get, at least in the right place, at the right time.

Information, Impossible, Obstacles

Robert X. Cringley for a Public Broadcasting System [PBS] television series, "Triumph of the Nerds" (1995), "The Lost Interview: Steve Jobs Tells Us What Really Matters", Forbes, Steve Denning, November 17, 2011.

I'm not dismissing the value of higher education; I'm simply saying it comes at the expense of experience.

Inspirational, Leadership, Higher Education

You've got to find what you love.

Stanford University, Work You Love, Best Job

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

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. And, like any great relationship, it just gets better and better as the years roll on.

Inspirational, Life, Graduation

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

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.

Creativity, Artist, Obvious Things

Steve Jobs (0101). “Motivating Thoughts of Steve Jobs”, p.35, Prabhat Prakashan

You're already naked. There is no reason not to follow your heart.

Change, Positive, Happiness

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

I think if you do something and it turns out pretty good, then you should go do something else wonderful, not dwell on it for too long. Just figure out what's next.

Inspirational, Change, Success

"Core Values: Apple Founder Steve Jobs". Interview with Brian Williams, www.nbclearn.com. May 25, 2006.

Packaging can be theater, it can create a story

Packaging, Stories, Theater

Love what you do...Don't settle

Settling

We think that computers are the most remarkable tools that humankind has ever come up with, and we think that people are basically tool users. So if we can just get lots of computers to lots of people, it will make some qualitative difference to the world.

Thinking, Differences, People

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

Nobody has tried to swallow us since I've been here. I think they are afraid how we would taste.

Inspirational, Thinking, Taste

Annual Apple shareholder meeting, April 22, 1998.

The things I've done in my life have required a lot of years of work before they took off.

Years, Done

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