Steve Jobs Quotes

“Don’t rely on market research, people don’t know what they want until you show them.”
― George Ilian, Steve Jobs: 50 Life and Business Lessons from Steve Jobs

“Lesson No. 31: With the wrong person at the helm, even a strong company can take a turn for the worse.”
― George Ilian, Steve Jobs: 50 Life and Business Lessons from Steve Jobs

“Don’t be afraid to make difficult decisions, the ones who are crazy enough to think they can change the world are usually the ones that do.”
― George Ilian, Steve Jobs: 50 Life and Business Lessons from Steve Jobs

“Be generous to all your stakeholders. You can achieve success and wealth together. Apple’s”
― George Ilian, Steve Jobs: 50 Life and Business Lessons from Steve Jobs

“The Beatles. They were four guys who kept each other’s kind of negative tendencies in check. They balanced each other and the total was greater than the sum of the parts. That’s how I see business: great things in business are never done by one person, they’re done by a team of people.”
― George Ilian, Steve Jobs: 50 Life and Business Lessons from Steve Jobs

“Life. It is Life’s change agent. It clears out the old to make way for the new. Right now the new is you, but someday not too long from now, you will gradually become the old and be cleared away. Sorry to be so dramatic, but it is quite true… Your”
― George Ilian, Steve Jobs: 50 Life and Business Lessons from Steve Jobs

“Lesson No. 44: Live your life to the full, personally and professionally, because no one ever knows how long they have on earth.”
― George Ilian, Steve Jobs: 50 Life and Business Lessons from Steve Jobs

“Lesson No. 33: Don’t be afraid to make difficult decisions, the ones who are crazy enough to think they can change the world are usually the ones that do.”
― George Ilian, Steve Jobs: 50 Life and Business Lessons from Steve Jobs

“Lesson No. 22: Don’t be afraid to be a beginner again. There’s a phrase in Buddhism, ‘Beginner’s mind.’ It’s wonderful to have a beginner’s mind.”
― George Ilian, Steve Jobs: 50 Life and Business Lessons from Steve Jobs

“Lesson No. 16: Surround yourself with brilliance.”
― George Ilian, Steve Jobs: 50 Life and Business Lessons from Steve Jobs

“Lesson No. 12: Choose your investors wisely as they can offer more than just funding.”
― George Ilian, Steve Jobs: 50 Life and Business Lessons from Steve Jobs

“Lesson No. 10: Know your own strengths and those of the people around you.”
― George Ilian, Steve Jobs: 50 Life and Business Lessons from Steve Jobs

“Unfortunately, that’s too rare a commodity. A lot of people in our industry haven’t had very diverse experiences. So they don’t have enough dots to connect, and they end up with very linear solutions without a broad perspective on the problem. The broader one’s understanding of the human experience, the better design we will have.”
― George Ilian, Steve Jobs: 50 Life and Business Lessons from Steve Jobs

“Lesson No. 6: Know yourself.”
― George Ilian, Steve Jobs: 50 Life and Business Lessons from Steve Jobs

“Lesson No. 5: Nothing is beneath you when you’re starting out.”
― George Ilian, Steve Jobs: 50 Life and Business Lessons from Steve Jobs

“Lesson No. 4: Personal relationships are vital to success.”
― George Ilian, Steve Jobs: 50 Life and Business Lessons from Steve Jobs

“Lesson No. 1: Your start in life is not what is most important: it is where you end up that counts.”
― George Ilian, Steve Jobs: 50 Life and Business Lessons from Steve Jobs

“Picasso had a saying: good artists copy, great artists steal.”
― George Ilian, Steve Jobs: 50 Life and Business Lessons from Steve Jobs

“Lesson No. 9: The only way to do great work is to love what you do.”
― George Ilian, Steve Jobs: 50 Life and Business Lessons from Steve Jobs

“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 as it should be, because Death is very likely the single best invention of Life. It is Life’s change agent. It clears out the old to make way for the new. Right now the new is you, but someday not too long from now, you will gradually become the old and be cleared away. Sorry to be so dramatic, but it is quite true… 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 others’ 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.”
― George Ilian, Steve Jobs: 50 Life and Business Lessons from Steve Jobs

“Practical skills and hard work underpin achievement.”
― George Ilian, Steve Jobs: 50 Life and Business Lessons from 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.” It seems Steve Jobs got his wish after all.”
― George Ilian, Steve Jobs: 50 Life and Business Lessons from Steve Jobs

“In February 2015, Apple's value exceeded $700 billion, If Wayne had kept his 10% stock until then, it would have been worth approximately $60 billion.”
― George Ilian, Steve Jobs: 50 Life and Business Lessons from Steve Jobs

“Look critically at yourself, know your mistakes, and work hard to fix them. No one else is going to do this for you.”
― George Ilian, Steve Jobs: 50 Life and Business Lessons from 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 others’ 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.”
― George Ilian, Steve Jobs: 50 Life and Business Lessons from Steve Jobs

“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.”
― George Ilian, Steve Jobs: 50 Life and Business Lessons from Steve Jobs

“Your start in life is not what is most important: it is where you end up that counts.”
― George Ilian, Steve Jobs: 50 Life and Business Lessons from Steve Jobs

“Compatibility with related products, current and future, is important. 1980”
― George Ilian, Steve Jobs: 50 Life and Business Lessons from Steve Jobs

“Be prepared to take a gamble. To”
― George Ilian, Steve Jobs: 50 Life and Business Lessons from Steve Jobs

“Look critically at yourself, know your mistakes, and work hard to fix them. No one else is going to do this for you. Jobs”
― George Ilian, Steve Jobs: 50 Life and Business Lessons from Steve Jobs