Quotes By Steve Jobs

We all have a short period of time on this earth-We probably only have the opportunity to do a few things really great and do them well. None of us has any idea how long we're going to be here nor do I, but my feeling is I've got to accomplish a lot of these things while I'm young.

Most people have no concept of how an automatic transmission works, yet they know how to drive a car. You don't have to study physics to understand the laws of motion to drive a car. You don't have to understand any of this stuff to use Macintosh.

Everything is important- that success is in the details.

There's a phrase in Buddhism, 'Beginner's mind.' It's wonderful to have a beginner's mind.

I hate it when people call themselves 'entrepreneurs' when what they're really trying to do is launch a startup and then sell of go public, so they can cash in and move on. They're unwilling to do the work it takes to build a real company, which is the hardest work in business.

Focusing is about saying No.

The unions are the worst thing that ever happened to education because it's not a meritocracy. It turns into a bureaucracy, which is exactly what has happened. The teachers can't teach and administrators run the place and nobody can be fired. It's terrible.

Shake off this erroneous notion that life is there and you're just gonna live in it, versus embrace it, change it, improve it, make your mark upon it.

We don't have a good language to talk about this kind of thing. In most people's vocabularies, design means veneer... But to me, nothing could be further from the meaning of design. Design is the fundamental soul of a man-made creation.

I don't think of my life as a career. I do stuff. I respond to stuff. That's not a career - it's a life!

If a user is having a problem, it's our problem.

Life can be much broader. You can embrace it, change it, improve it, make your mark upon it.

Companies must have a noble cause, and it's the leaders job to transform that noble cause into such an inspiring vision, that it will attract the most talented people in the world to want to join it.

A-plus players like to work together and they don't like it if you tolerate B work.

A small team of A+ players can run circles around a giant team of B and C players.

‎Experts are clueless.

My passion has been to build an enduring company where people were motivated to make great products. Everything else was secondary. Sure, it was great to make a profit, because that was what allowed you to make great products. But the products, not the profits were the motivation.

To follow the path that others have laid before you is a reasonable course of action; therefore all progress is made by unreasonable men.

My philosophy is that everything starts with a great product.

The were good times, there were hard times, but there were never bad times.