Quotes By Steve Jobs

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

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.

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.

Faith:1, Trust:1, Karma: 0

Don't be evil is a load of crap.

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

My philosophy is that everything starts with a great product.

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 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.

‎Experts are clueless.

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

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

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.

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

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

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!

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.

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.

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.

Focusing is about saying No.