Steve Jobs Quotes

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  Stay hungry, stay foolish.

  Steve Jobs

  Topics in Inspirational

  Tags in Foolish, Hungry

• 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 i all, and I don’t view wealth as something that validates my intelligence.

  Steve Jobs

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Line, Return

• 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. And, like any great relationship, it just gets better and better as the years roll on.

  Steve Jobs

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Found, Keep

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

  Steve Jobs

  Topics in Computer
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  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

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Matters
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  People don’t read anymore.

  Steve Jobs

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Read, People

• 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.

  Steve Jobs

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Built, Customers, Client

• 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. This approach has never let me down, and it has made all the difference in my life.

  Steve Jobs

  Topics in Future, Life, Memory, Trust

  Tags in Destiny

• We’re going to be able to ask our computers to monitor things for us, and when certain conditions happen, are triggered, the computers will take certain actions and inform us after the fact.

  Steve Jobs

  Topics in Computer

  Tags in Certain, Happen, Action

• The desktop computer industry is dead. Innovation has virtually ceased. Microsoft dominates with very little innovation. That’s over. Apple lost. The desktop market has entered the dark ages, and it’s going to be in the dark ages for the next 10 years, or certainly for the rest of this decade.

  Steve Jobs

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Market, Dark

• My favorite things in life don’t cost any money. It’s really clear that the most precious resource we all have is time.

  Steve Jobs

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Clear, Cost

• I’ve always wanted to own and control the primary technology in everything we do.

  Steve Jobs

  Topics in Technology

  Tags in Control

• There’s no other company that could make a MacBook Air and the reason is that not only do we control the hardware, but we control the operating system. And it is the intimate interaction between the operating system and the hardware that allows us to do that. There is no intimate interaction between Windows and a Dell notebook.

  Steve Jobs

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in System, Company, Control

• A lot of companies have chosen to downsize, and maybe that was the right thing for them. We chose a different path. Our belief was that if we kept putting great products in front of customers, they would continue to open their wallets.

  Steve Jobs

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Open, Path, Continue

• It’s not about charisma and personality, it’s about results and products and those very bedrock things that are why people at Apple and outside of Apple are getting more excited about the company and what Apple stands for and what its potential is to contribute to the industry.

  Steve Jobs

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Results, Personality, Company

• The engineering is long gone in most PC companies. In the consumer electronics companies, they don’t understand the software parts of it. And so you really can’t make the products that you can make at Apple anywhere else right now. Apple’s the only company that has everything under one roof.

  Steve Jobs

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Understand, Company

• Our DNA is as a consumer company – for that individual customer who’s voting thumbs up or thumbs down. That’s who we think about. And we think that our job is to take responsibility for the complete user experience. And if it’s not up to par, it’s our fault, plain and simply.

  Steve Jobs

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Responsibility, Company

• 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

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Interesting, Ideas, Company

• The over-all point is that new technology will not necessarily replace old technology, but it will date it. By definition. Eventually, it will replace it. But it’s like people who had black-and-white TVs when color came out. They eventually decided whether or not the new technology was worth the investment.

  Steve Jobs

  Topics in Technology

  Tags in Necessarily, Color

• 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

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Bigger, Lead

Steve Jobs (116)

Birth:	24th February, 1955
Death:	5th October, 2011
Nationality:	American
Profession:	Chairman, Chief Executive Officer, Entrepreneur, Founder

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