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Quotes By Steve Jobs

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Businessman

Steve Jobs

Feb 24, 1955 - Oct 05, 2011

Be ready to catch the ball when it is thrown by life.

We limit how much technology our kids use at home.

When you're in a startup, the first ten people will determine whether the company succeeds or not.

I'm going to destroy Android, because it's a stolen product. I'm willing to go thermonuclear war on this.

The things I've done in my life have required a lot of years of work before they took off.

I think if you do something and it turns out pretty good, then you should go do something else wonderful, not dwell on it for too long. Just figure out what's next.

I don't really care about being right, I just care about success.

Computers themselves, and software yet to be developed, will revolutionize the way we learn.

Ask for feedback from people with diverse backgrounds. Each one will tell you one useful thing. If you're at the top of the chain, sometimes people won't give you honest feedback because they're afraid. In this case, disguise yourself, or get feedback from other sources.

You're already naked. There is no reason not to follow your heart.

Every good product I've ever seen is because a group of people cared deeply about making something wonderful that they and their friends wanted. They wanted to use it themselves.

Our goal is to make the best devices in the world, not to be the biggest.

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.

For you to sleep well at night, the aesthetic, the quality, has to be carried all the way through.

Marketing is about values. It's a complicated and noisy world, and we're not going to get a chance to get people to remember much about us. No company is. So we have to be really clear about what we want them to know about us.

A lot of time, people don't do great things becoz' great things really aren't expected of them.

The important point is to not just follow your passion but something larger than yourself.

I'm one of those people that think Thomas Edison and the light bulb changed the world more than Karl Marx ever did.

My job is to make the whole executive team good enough to be successors, so that's what I try to do.