Steve Jobs

creativity

"Creativity is just connecting things. When you ask creative people how they did something, they feel a little guilty because they didn't really do it, they just saw something. It seemed obvious to them after a while."

— Steve Jobs (1955-2011)

remember you are going to die

"Ninety percent of everything is crap."

—Theodore Sturgeon (1918-1985)

yardstick of quality

"Be a yardstick of quality. Some people aren't used to an environment where excellence is expected."

— Steve Jobs (1955-2011)

connecting dots

"You can’t connect the dots looking forward; you can only connect them looking backwards. So you have to trust that the dots will somehow connect in your future. You have to trust in something – your gut, destiny, life, karma, whatever."

— Steve Jobs (1955-2011)

great work

"Your work is going to fill a large part of your life, and the only way to be truly satisfied is to do what you believe is great work. And the only way to do great work is to love what you do. If you haven’t found it yet, keep looking. Don’t settle. As with all matters of the heart, you’ll know when you find it."

— Steve Jobs (1955-2011)

what matters to me

"Being the richest man in the cemetery doesn’t matter to me … Going to bed at night saying we’ve done something wonderful … that’s what matters to me."

— Steve Jobs (1955-2011)

innovation is saying no

"I’m as proud of many of the things we haven’t done as the things we have done. Innovation is saying no to a thousand things."

— Steve Jobs (1955-2011)

quality more important than quantity

"Quality is more important than quantity. One home run is much better than two doubles."

— Steve Jobs (1955-2011)

live each day as if it were your last

"When I was 17, I read a quote that went something like: 'If you live each day as if it was your last, someday you'll most certainly be right.' It made an impression on me, and since then, for the past 33 years, I have looked in the mirror every morning and asked myself: 'If today were the last day of my life, would I want to do what I am about to do today?'"

— Steve Jobs (1955-2011)

perseverance

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

— Steve Jobs (1955-2011)

What is next

"I think if you do something and it turns out pretty good, then you should go do something else wonderful, not dwell on it for too long. Just figure out what’s next."

— Steve Jobs (1955-2011)

Steve Jobs - getting fired from Apple

"Getting fired from Apple was the best thing that could have ever happened to me. The heaviness of being successful was replaced by the lightness of being a beginner again. It freed me to enter one of the most creative periods of my life."

— Steve Jobs (1955-2011)

Innovation leader and follower.

"Innovation distinguishes between a leader and a follower."

—Steve Jobs (1955-2011)

connect ideas

“Don't live in a bubble. Connect ideas from different fields.”

—Steve Jobs (1955-2011)

heart intuition

“Have the courage to follow your heart and intuition. They somehow already know what you truly want to become. Everything else is secondary.”

—Steve Jobs (1955-2011)

Apple DNA technology liberal arts humanities

"It’s in Apple’s DNA that technology alone is not enough — it’s technology married with liberal arts, married with the humanities, that yields us the results that make our heart sing — and nowhere is that more true than in these post-PC devices."

— Steve Jobs (1955-2011)

success entrepreneur perseverance

"About half of what separates successful entrepreneurs from non-successful ones is pure perseverance."

— Steve Jobs (1955-2011)

life made smart influence build

"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. Once you learn that you’ll never be the same again."

— Steve Jobs (1955-2011)

chance many things excellent life

“We don’t get a chance to do that many things, and every one should be really excellent. Because this is our life.”

― Steve Jobs (1955-2011)

death destination invention escape time limit

“…death is the destination we all share. No one has ever escaped it. And that is as it should be, because death is very likely the single best invention of life. It’s life’s change agent; it clears out the old to make way for the new … Your time is limited, so don’t waste it living someone else’s life.”

― Steve Jobs (1955-2011)

working exciting push vision pull motivation

"If you are working on something exciting that you really care about,you don't have to be pushed. The vision pulls you."

— Steve Jobs (1955-2011)

work love life great

"Your work is going to fill a large part of your life, and the only way to be truly satisfied is to do what you believe is great work. And the only way to do great work is to love what you do."

— Steve Jobs (1955-2011)