Steve Jobs > Quotes

“Your time is limited, so don't waste it living someone else's life.”
― Steve Jobs

“Your time is limited, so don't waste it living someone else's life. Don't be trapped by dogma - which is living with the results of other people's thinking. Don't let the noise of other's opinions drown out your own inner voice. And most important, have the courage to follow your heart and intuition. They somehow already know what you truly want to become. Everything else is secondary.”
― Steve Jobs

“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. Remembering that you are going to die is the best way I know to avoid the trap of thinking you have something to lose. You are already naked. There is no reason not to follow your heart. ... Stay hungry. Stay foolish.”
― Steve Jobs

“If you live each day as it was your last, someday you'll most certainly be right”
― Steve Jobs

“Details matter, it's worth waiting to get it right.”
― Steve Jobs

“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.”
― Steve Jobs

“You have to be burning with "an idea, or a problem, or a wrong that you want to right." If you're not passionate enough from the start, you'll never stick it out.”
― Steve Jobs

“Don’t let the noise of others’ opinions drown out your own inner voice.”
― Steve Jobs

“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.”
― Steve Jobs

“Stay hungry. Stay foolish.”
― Steve Jobs

“Have the courage to follow your heart and intuition. They somehow already know what you truly want to become. Everything else is secondary.”
― Steve Jobs

“Sometimes life's going to hit you in the head with a brick. Don't lose faith. I'm convinced that the only thing that kept me going was that I loved what I did.”
― Steve Jobs

“I've been rejected, but I am still in love.”
― Steve Jobs

“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.”
― Steve Jobs

“Being the richest man in the cemetery doesn't matter to me... Going to bed at night saying we've done something wonderful... that's what matters to me.”
― Steve Jobs

“Remembering that I'll be dead soon is the most important tool I've ever encounte...red to help me make the big choices in life.

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.

Remembering that you are going to die is the best way I know to avoid the trap of thinking you have something to lose. You are already naked. There is no reason not to follow your heart.

No one wants to die. Even people who want to go to heaven don't want to die to get there. And yet, death is the destination we all share. No one has ever escaped it, and that is how it should be, because death is very likely the single best invention of life. It's life's change agent. It clears out the old to make way for the new.”
― Steve Jobs

“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. And, like any great relationship, it just gets better and better as the years roll on.”
― Steve Jobs

“Everything is important- that success is in the details.”
― Steve Jobs

“Think Different”
― Steve Jobs

“The heaviness of being successful was replaced by the lightness of being a beginner again.”
― Steve Jobs

“Remembering that you are going to die is the best way I know to avoid the trap of thinking you have something to lose.”
― Steve Jobs

“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.”
― Steve Jobs

“Real artists ship.”
― Steve Jobs

“When I was 17, I read a quote that went something like: 'If you live each day as if it was your last, someday you'll most certainly be right.' It made an impression on me, and since then, 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.”
― Steve Jobs

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

“Creativity is just connecting things.”
― Steve Jobs

“And the only way to do great work is to love what you do.... Don't settle”
― Steve Jobs

“What we're doing here will send a giant ripple through the universe.”
― Steve Jobs

“http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UF8uR6... ->Steve Jobs' 2005 Stanford Commencement Address”
― Steve Jobs

“Things don't have to change the world to be important.”
― Steve Jobs

“We don’t get a chance to do that many things, and every one should be really excellent. Because this is our life.”
― Steve Jobs

“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.”
― Steve Jobs

“Focus is about saying No.”
― Steve Jobs

“When you’re a carpenter making a beautiful chest of drawers, you’re not going to use a piece of plywood on the back, even though it faces the wall and nobody will ever see it. You’ll know it’s there, so you’re going to use a beautiful piece of wood on the back. For you to sleep well at night, the aesthetic, the quality, has to be carried all the way through.”
― Steve Jobs

“I would trade all of my technology for an afternoon with Socrates.”
― Steve Jobs

“Your time is limited, so don't waste it living someone else's life. Don't be trapped by dogma - which is living with the results of other people's thinking. Don't let the noise of other's opinions drown out your own inner voice." - Steve Jobs”
― Steve Jobs

“The journey is the reward”
― Steve Jobs

“Why join the navy if you can be a pirate?”
― Steve Jobs

“Sometimes life is going to hit you in the head with a brick. Don't lose faith.”
― Steve Jobs

“live your life like its the last day of your life, and one day you will be right.”
― Steve Jobs

“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.”
― Steve Jobs

“Your thoughts construct patterns like scaffolding in your mind. You are really etching chemical patterns. In most cases, people get stuck in those patterns, just like grooves in a record, and they never get out of them.”
― Steve Jobs

“Good Artists Copy, Great Artists Steal”
― Steve Jobs

“Don't let the noise of other people drown out your inner voice. And most important, have the courage to follow your heart and intuition. They somehow already know what you truly want to become.”
― Steve Jobs

“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. That’s a far
more depressing thought. Conspiracy is optimistic! You can shoot
the bastards! We can have a revolution! But the networks are really
in business to give people what they want. It’s the truth.”
― Steve Jobs

“Oh wow. Oh wow. Oh wow.”
― Steve Jobs

“You've baked a really lovely cake, but then you've used dog shit for frosting.”
― Steve Jobs

“If you live each day as if it were your last, someday you'll be right. Every morning I looked in the mirror and asked myself: If today were the last day of my life, would I want to do what I do today? ”
― Steve Jobs, I, Steve

“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.”
― Steve Jobs

“If I had never dropped in on that single course in college, the Mac would have never had multiple typefaces or proportionally spaced fonts. And since Windows just copied the Mac, it's likely that no personal computer would have them.”
― Steve Jobs