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Steve Jobs Quotes about Life

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Don’t let the noise of others’ opinions drown out your own inner voice.

Don’t let the noise of others’ opinions drown out your own inner voice.

Love, Inspirational, Life

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

the people who are crazy enough to think they can change the world are the ones who do.

Inspirational, Life, Motivational

Your time is limited, so don't waste it living someone else's life.

Inspirational, Life, Motivational

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

Sometimes life hits you in the head with a brick. Don't lose faith.

Inspirational, Life, Motivational

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

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

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.

The journey is the reward

Inspirational, Life, Inspiring

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

Remembering that I'll be dead soon is the most important tool I've ever encountered to help me make the big choices in life. Because almost everything - all external expectations, all pride, all fear of embarrassment or failure - these things just fall away in the face of death, leaving only what is truly important.

Life, Fear, Failure

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

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.

Life, Motivational, Success

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

Don't be trapped by dogma — which is living with the results of other people's thinking.

Inspirational, Life, Graduation

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

Innovation distinguishes between a leader and a follower.

Inspirational, Life, Motivational

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

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

I feel like somebody just punched me in the stomach and knocked all my wind out. I'm only 30 years old and I want to have a chance to continue creating things. I know I've got at least one more great computer in me. And Apple is not going to give me a chance to do that.

Life, Creating Things, Years

"Steve Jobs obituary" by Jack Schofield, www.theguardian.com. October 5, 2011.

I'm as proud of what we don't do as I am of what we do.

Inspirational, Life, Life Lesson

"Stop Judging and Start Learning" by Lolly Daskal, www.huffingtonpost.com. August 22, 2013.

It's rare that you see an artist in his 30s or 40s able to really contribute something amazing.

Life, Artist, Amazing Job

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

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.

So when a good idea comes, you know, part of my job is to move it around, just see what different people think, get people talking about it, argue with people about it, get ideas moving among that group of 100 people, get different people together to explore different aspects of it quietly, and, you know – just explore things.

Life, Jobs, Moving

When I hire somebody really senior, competence is the ante. They have to be really smart. But the real issue for me is, Are they going to fall in love with Apple? Because if they fall in love with Apple, everything else will take care of itself. They'll want to do what's best for Apple, not what's best for them, what's best for Steve, or anybody else.

Life, Senior, Falling In Love

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.

I've always wanted to own and control the primary technology in everything we do.

Life, Technology, Wanted

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

The thing that drives me and my colleagues at both Apple and Pixar is that you see something very compelling to you, and you don't quite know how to get to it, but you know, sometimes intuitively, it's within your grasp. And it's worth putting in years of your life to make it come into existence.

Life, Years, Apples

You know, I've got a plan that could rescue Apple. I can't say any more than that it's the perfect product and the perfect strategy for Apple. But nobody there will listen to me.

Life, Apples, Perfect

Fortune magazine, September 18, 1995.

Unfortunately, people are not rebelling against Microsoft. They don't know any better.

Life, People, Microsoft

Rolling Stone Interview, June 16, 1994.

Bill Gates'd be a broader guy if he had dropped acid once or gone off to an ashram when he was younger.

Life, Dropping Acid, Best Job

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