

Quotes By Steve Jobs

Businessman
Steve Jobs
Feb 24, 1955 - Oct 05, 2011
Remembering that I'll be dead soon is the most important tool I've ever encountered to help make the big choices in life. Remembering that you are going to die is the best way I know to avoid the trap of thinking you have something to lose.
We don't settle for anything less than excellence.
It's not the consumers' job to figure out what they want.
You have to be burning with "an idea, or a problem, or a wrong that you want to right." If you're not passionate enough from the start, you'll never stick it out.
If you don't have a passion, you'll give up.
Pursue your dreams and see the opportunities in life's setbacks.
You can't win on innovation unless you have a way to communicate it to customers.
Everything around you that you call life was made up by people that were no smarter than you and you can change it, you can influence it, you can build your own things that other people can use.
Quality is more important than quantity. One home run is much better than two doubles.
If you want to live your life in a creative way, as an artist, you have to not look back too much. You have to be willing to take whatever you've done and whoever you were and throw them away.
It's very simple: The more successful you are, the more you'll earn. But if you're not successful, you will not earn a dime.
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.
I began to realize that an intuitive understanding and consciousness was more significant than abstract thinking and intellectual logical analysis. Intuition is a very powerful thing, more powerful than intellect, in my opinion. That's had a big impact on my work.
You are all over the map, figure out the top 5 things you want to focus on and get rid of the rest.
I'm not dismissing the value of higher education; I'm simply saying it comes at the expense of experience.
You've got to have a problem that you want to solve; a wrong that you want to right.
Without passion, any rational person would give up!
A brand is simply trust.
You should never go to a meeting or make a telephone call without a clear idea of what you are trying to achieve.
Life is about creating and living experiences that are worth sharing.
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