Quotes By Steve Jobs

I'm convinced that about half of what separates successful entrepreneurs from the non-successful ones is pure perseverance.

Ad campaigns are necessary for competition. But good PR educates people; that's all it is.

Find people who are competent and really bright, but more importantly, people who care exactly about the same things you care about.

It's technology married with liberal arts, married with the humanities, that yields us the results that make our heart sing.

Your thoughts construct patterns like scaffolding in your mind. You are really etching chemical patterns. In most cases, people get stuck in those patterns, just like grooves in a record, and they never get out of them.

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

We've got to make the small things unforgettable.

I sat in a garage and invented the future.

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

Fear of failure falls away in the face of death.

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.

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

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.

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.

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

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.

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.

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

Without death there would be very little progress.

Don't be afraid, you can do it.