He was an American inventor and entrepreneur. He was co-founder, chairman, and chief executive officer of Apple Inc. In the late 1970s, Jobs — along with Steve Wozniak, Mike Markkula and others co-founded Apple in a Silicon Valley garage, built it into the world’s leading tech company and led a mobile-computing revolution with wildly popular devices such as the iPhone. He marketed one of the first commercially successful lines of personal computers, the Apple II series. The hard-driving executive pioneered the concept of the personal computer and of navigating them by clicking onscreen images with a mouse. In more recent years, he introduced the iPod portable music player, the iPhone and the iPad tablet — all of which changed how we consume content in the digital age. “Steve’s brilliance, passion and energy were the source of countless innovations that enrich and improve all of our lives…”
(1955 – 2011)
– Steve Jobs Quotes –
It takes these very simple-minded instructions—‘Go fetch a number, add it to this number, put the result there, perceive if it’s greater than this other number’––but executes them at a rate of, let’s say, 1,000,000 per second. At 1,000,000 per second, the results appear to be magic.
~ 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
Don’t be trapped by dogma – which is living with the results of other people’s thinking.
~ Steve Jobs
Each year has been so robust with problems and successes and learning experiences and human experienes that a year is a lifetime at Apple. So this has been ten lifetimes.
~ Steve Jobs
Design is a funny word. Some people think design means how it looks. But of course, if you dig deeper, it’s really how it works.
~ Steve Jobs
Design is the fundamental soul of a man-made creation that ends up expressing itself in successive outer layers of the product or service. The iMac is not just the color or translucence or the shape of the shell. The essence of the iMac is to be the finest possible consumer computer in which each element plays together.
~ Steve Jobs
Your Time Is Limited, So Don’t Waste It Living Someone Else’s Life
~ Steve Jobs
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.
~ Steve Jobs
And no, we don’t know where it will lead. We just know there’s something much bigger than any of us here.
~ Steve Jobs
Design is a funny word. Some people think design means how it looks. But of course, if you dig deeper, it’s really how it works.
~ Steve Jobs
I think it’s brought the world a lot closer together, and will continue to do that. There are downsides to everything; there are unintended consequences to everything. The most corrosive piece of technology that I’ve ever seen is called television – but then, again, television, at its best, is magnificent.
~ Steve Jobs
I think we’re having fun. I think our customers really like our products. And we’re always trying to do better.
~ Steve Jobs
I’ve always wanted to own and control the primary technology in everything we do.
~ Steve Jobs
Innovation distinguishes between a leader and a follower.
~ Steve Jobs
It is piracy, not overt online music stores, which is our main competitor.
~ Steve Jobs
It’s hard to tell with these Internet startups if they’re really interested in building companies or if they’re just interested in the money. I can tell you, though: If they don’t really want to build a company, they won’t luck into it. That’s because it’s so hard that if you don’t have a passion, you’ll give up.
~ Steve Jobs
My favorite things in life don’t cost any money. It’s really clear that the most precious resource we all have is time.
~ Steve Jobs
Our DNA is as a consumer company – for that individual customer who’s voting thumbs up or thumbs down. That’s who we think about. And we think that our job is to take responsibility for the complete user experience. And if it’s not up to par, it’s our fault, plain and simply.
~ 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. You are already naked. There is no reason not to follow your heart.
~ Steve Jobs
I have a great respect for incremental improvement, and I’ve done that sort of thing in my life, but I’ve always been attracted to the more revolutionary changes. I don’t know why. Because they’re harder. They’re much more stressful emotionally. And you usually go through a period where everybody tells you that you’ve completely failed.
~ 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.
~ Steve Jobs
These technologies can make life easier, can let us touch people we might not otherwise. You may have a child with a birth defect and be able to get in touch with other parents and support groups, get medical information, the latest experimental drugs. These things can profoundly influence life. I’m not downplaying that.
~ 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.
~ Steve Jobs
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.
~ 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. 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
You’ll see more and more perfection of that – computer as servant. But the next thing is going to be computer as a guide or agent.
~ Steve Jobs
Sometimes life hits you in the head with a brick. Don’t lose faith.
~ Steve Jobs
With our technology, with objects, literally three people in a garage can blow away what 200 people at Microsoft can do. Literally can blow it away. Corporate America has a need that is so huge and can save them so much money, or make them so much money, or cost them so much money if they miss it, that they are going to fuel the object revolution.
~ Steve Jobs
Everyone here has the sense that right now is one of those moments when we are influencing the future.
~ Steve Jobs
Bottom line is, I didn’t return to Apple to make a fortune. I’ve been very lucky in my life and already have one. When I was 25, my net worth was $100 million or so. I decided then that I wasn’t going to let it ruin my life. There’s no way you could ever spend it all, and I don’t view wealth as something that validates my intelligence.
~ Steve Jobs
