15 Quotes from Steve Jobs
- Don’t be trapped by dogma – which is living with the results of other people’s thinking. ~Steve Jobs
- Design is not what it looks like and feels like. Design is how it works. ~Steve Jobs
- Innovation distinguishes between a leader and a follower. ~Steve Jobs
- A lot of times, people don’t know what they want until you show it to them. ~Steve Jobs
- You can’t connect the dots looking forward; you can only connect them looking backwards. ~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. ~Steve Jobs
- One of my mantras — focus and simplicity. Simple can be harder than complex. ~Steve Jobs
- Picasso had a saying: ‘Good artists copy, great artists steal.’ We have always been shameless about stealing great ideas… ~Steve Jobs
- There’s nothing that makes my day more than getting an e-mail from some random person in the universe who just bought an iPad over in the UK and tells me the story about how it’s the coolest product they’ve ever brought home in their lives. That’s what keeps me going. ~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. ~Steve Jobs
- I have looked at myself 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 is ‘no’ for too many days in a row, I know I need to change something. ~Steve Jobs
- My job is to make the whole executive team good enough to be successors, so that’s what I try to do. ~Steve Jobs
- Why join the navy if you can be a pirate? ~Steve Jobs
- Quality is more important than quantity. One home run is much better than two doubles. ~Steve Jobs
- Your time is limited, so don’t waste it living someone else’s life. ~Steve Jobs