Steve Jobs Quotes

• It takes these very simple-minded instructions – ‘Go fetch a number, add it to this number, put the result there, perceive if it’s greater than this other number’ – but executes them at a rate of, let’s say, 1,000,000 per second. At 1,000,000 per second, the results appear to be magic.

  Steve Jobs

  Topics in Management

  Tags in Greater, Result, Second

• Remembering that I’ll be dead soon is the most important tool I’ve ever encountered to help me make the big choices in life. Because almost everything – all external expectations, all pride, all fear of embarrassment or failure – these things just fall away in the face of death, leaving only what is truly important.

  Steve Jobs

  Topics in Failure

  Tags in Failed

• The reason we wouldn’t make a seven-inch tablet isn’t because we don’t want to hit a price point, it’s because we don’t think you can make a great tablet with a seven-inch screen.

  Steve Jobs

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Point, Price

• 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.

  Steve Jobs

  Topics in Technology

  Tags in Wonderful, Tools

• Well, Apple invented the PC as we know it, and then it invented the graphical user interface as we know it eight years later (with the introduction of the Mac). But then, the company had a decade in which it took a nap.

  Steve Jobs

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Later, Took

• We think Android is very, very fragmented, and becoming more fragmented by the day. And as you know, Apple strives for the integrated model so that the user isn’t forced to be the systems integrator.

  Steve Jobs

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Model, Apple

• This revolution, the information revoultion, is a revolution of free energy as well, but of another kind: free intellectual energy. It’s very crude today, yet our Macintosh computer takes less power than a 100-watt bulb to run it and it can save you hours a day. What will it be able to do ten or 20 years from now, or 50 years from now?

  Steve Jobs

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Revolution, Information, Today

• I met Woz when I was 13, at a friend’s garage. He was about 18. He was, like, the first person I met who knew more electronics than I did at that point. We became good friends, because we shared an interest in computer and we had a sense of humor. We pulled all kinds of pranks together.

  Steve Jobs

  Topics in Humor

  Tags in Point

• Pointing is a metaphor we all know. We’ve done a lot of studies and tests on that, and it’s much faster to do all kinds of functions, such as cutting and pasting, with a mouse, so it’s not only easier to use but more efficient.

  Steve Jobs

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Efficient, Kinds, Easier

• Sometimes life hits you in the head with a brick. Don’t lose faith.

  Steve Jobs

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Head

• So when these people sell out, even though they get fabulously rich, they’re gypping themselves out of one of the potentially most rewarding experiences of their unfolding lives. Without it, they may never know their values or how to keep their newfound wealth in perspective.

  Steve Jobs

  Topics in Experience

  Tags in Values, Rich

• I don’t think I’ve ever worked so hard on something, but working on Macintosh was the neatest experience of my life. Almost everyone who worked on it will say that. None of us wanted to release it at the end. It was as though we knew that once it was out of our hands, it wouldn’t be ours anymore.

  Steve Jobs

  Topics in Experience

  Tags in Hard

• Things don’t have to change the world to be important.

  Steve Jobs

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Change

• We don’t get a chance to do that many things, and every one should be really excellent. Because this is our life. Life is brief, and then you die, you know? So this is what we’ve chosen to do with our life.

  Steve Jobs

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Chance

• 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

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Successful, Again

• Most people have no concept of how an automatic transmission works, yet they know how to drive a car. You don’t have to study physics to understand the laws of motion to drive a car. You don’t have to understand any of this stuff to use Macintosh.

  Steve Jobs

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Car, Works

• 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

  Topics in Money

  Tags in Innovation, Industry

• An iPod, a phone, an internet mobile communicator… these are NOT three separate devices! And we are calling it iPhone! Today Apple is going to reinvent the phone. And here it is.

  Steve Jobs

  Tags in Disorder

• But Apple really beats to a different drummer. I used to say that Apple should be the Sony of this business, but in reality, I think Apple should be the Apple of this business.

  Steve Jobs

  Topics in Business

  Tags in Different

• 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. That’s because they were able to connect experiences they’ve had and synthesize new things.

  Steve Jobs

  Tags in Creative

Steve Jobs (116)

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

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