Quotes By Steve Jobs

Don't be evil is a load of crap.

Faith:1, Trust:1, Karma: 0

It wasn't all romantic. I didn't have a dorm room, so I slept on the floor in friends' rooms, I returned coke bottles for the 5¢ deposits to buy food with, and I would walk the 7 miles across town every Sunday night to get one good meal a week at the Hare Krishna temple. I loved it.

People say sometimes, "You work in the fastest-moving industry in the world." I don't feel that way. I think I work in one of the slowest. It seems to take forever to get anything done.

If you don't cannibalize yourself, someone else will.

Don't be afraid, you can do it.

Without death there would be very little progress.

Do you create anything, or just criticize others work and belittle their motivations?

In most cases, strengths and weaknesses are two sides of the same coin. A strength in one situation is a weakness in another, yet often the person can't switch gears. It's a very subtle thing to talk about strengths and weaknesses because almost always they're the same thing.

We live in an information economy. The problem is that information's usually impossible to get, at least in the right place, at the right time.

I end up not buying a lot of things, because I find them ridiculous.

Technology is nothing. What's important is that you have a faith in people, that they're basically good and smart, and if you give them tools, they'll do wonderful things with them.

When you're doing something for yourself, or your best friend or family, you're not going to cheese out. If you don't love something, you're not going to go the extra mile, work the extra weekend, challenge the status quo as much.

By honoring the lives of those we admire, we make our own values known.

You can't just ask customers what they want and then try to give that to them. By the time you get it built, they'll want something new.

Fear of failure falls away in the face of death.

Things don't have to change the world to be important.

I sat in a garage and invented the future.

We've got to make the small things unforgettable.

You cannot mandate productivity, you must provide the tools to let people become their best.