Steve Jobs Quotes

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.
Steve Jobs

Experience, Design, End

Stay hungry, stay foolish.
Steve Jobs

Stay, Foolish, Hungry

Everyone here has the sense that right now is one of those moments when we are influencing the future.
Steve Jobs

Inspirational, Future, Sense

Older people sit down and ask, 'What is it?' but the boy asks, 'What can I do with it?'.
Steve Jobs

Down, Older, Ask

Apple's market share is bigger than BMW's or Mercedes's or Porsche's in the automotive market. What's wrong with being BMW or Mercedes?
Steve Jobs

Wrong, Share, Market

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

Change, Important

And no, we don't know where it will lead. We just know there's something much bigger than any of us here.
Steve Jobs

Here, Lead, Bigger

Bottom line is, I didn't return to Apple to make a fortune. I've been very lucky in my life and already have one. When I was 25, my net worth was $100 million or so. I decided then that I wasn't going to let it ruin my life. There's no way you could ever spend it all, and I don't view wealth as something that validates my intelligence.
Steve Jobs

Life, Worth, Lucky

I didn't see it then, but it turned out that 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, less sure about everything. It freed me to enter one of the most creative periods of my life.
Steve Jobs

Life, Best, Successful

I have a great respect for incremental improvement, and I've done that sort of thing in my life, but I've always been attracted to the more revolutionary changes. I don't know why. Because they're harder. They're much more stressful emotionally. And you usually go through a period where everybody tells you that you've completely failed.
Steve Jobs

Life, Great, Respect

Pretty much, Apple and Dell are the only ones in this industry making money. They make it by being Wal-Mart. We make it by innovation.
Steve Jobs

Money, Pretty, Making

Who wants a stylus. You have to get em and put em away, and you lose em. Yuck. Nobody wants a stylus.
Steve Jobs

Put, Away, Lose

For you to sleep well at night, the aesthetic, the quality, has to be carried all the way through.
Steve Jobs

Sleep, Night, Through

To turn really interesting ideas and fledgling technologies into a company that can continue to innovate for years, it requires a lot of disciplines.
Steve Jobs

Ideas, Company, Turn

Computers themselves, and software yet to be developed, will revolutionize the way we learn.
Steve Jobs

Computers, Learn, Themselves

Japan's very interesting. Some people think it copies things. I don't think that anymore. I think what they do is reinvent things. They will get something that's already been invented and study it until they thoroughly understand it. In some cases, they understand it better than the original inventor.
Steve Jobs

Understand, Study, Until

I think we're having fun. I think our customers really like our products. And we're always trying to do better.
Steve Jobs

Fun, Trying, Customers

And it comes from saying no to 1,000 things to make sure we don't get on the wrong track or try to do too much. We're always thinking about new markets we could enter, but it's only by saying no that you can concentrate on the things that are really important.
Steve Jobs

Important, Saying, Thinking

And one more thing.
Steve Jobs

When you're young, you look at television and think, there's a conspiracy. The networks have conspired to dumb us down. But when you get a little older, you realize that's not true. The networks are in business to give people exactly what they want.
Steve Jobs

Business, True, Down

I've always wanted to own and control the primary technology in everything we do.
Steve Jobs

Technology, Control, Wanted

Our goal is to make the best devices in the world, not to be the biggest.
Steve Jobs

Best, Goal, Biggest

I get asked a lot why Apple's customers are so loyal. It's not because they belong to the Church of Mac! That's ridiculous.
Steve Jobs

Why, Church, Ridiculous

It's not a faith in technology. It's faith in people.
Steve Jobs

Faith, Technology

It is piracy, not overt online music stores, which is our main competitor.
Steve Jobs

Music, Online, Competitor

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Biography

Nationality: American

Type: Businessman

Born: February 24, 1955

Died: October 5, 2011

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