Steve Jobs Quotes

• Design is a funny word. Some people think design means how it looks. But of course, if you dig deeper, it’s really how it works.

  Steve Jobs

  Topics in Work

• 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

  Topics in Life

• I think it’s brought the world a lot closer together, and will continue to do that. There are downsides to everything; there are unintended consequences to everything. The most corrosive piece of technology that I’ve ever seen is called television – but then, again, television, at its best, is magnificent.

  Steve Jobs

  Tags in Television

• I think right now it’s a battle for the mindshare of developers and for the mindshare of customers, and right now iPhone and Android are winning that battle.

  Steve Jobs

  Tags in Winning, Battle

• I’m an optimist in the sense that I believe humans are noble and honorable, and some of them are really smart. I have a very optimistic view of individuals.

  Steve Jobs

  Tags in Optimistic

• Microsoft has had two goals in the last 10 years. One was to copy the Mac, and the other was to copy Lotus’ success in the spreadsheet – basically, the applications business. And over the course of the last 10 years, Microsoft accomplished both of those goals. And now they are completely lost.

  Steve Jobs

  Topics in Business, Success

  Tags in Basically

• The people who are doing the work are the moving force behind the Macintosh. My job is to create a space for them, to clear out the rest of the organization and keep it at bay.

  Steve Jobs

  Topics in Job

• The seven-inch tablets are tweeners: too big to compete with a smartphone, and too small to compete with an iPad.

  Steve Jobs

  Tags in Incompetent, Compete

• The system is that there is no system. That doesn’t mean we don’t have process. Apple is a very disciplined company, and we have great processes. But that’s not what it’s about. Process makes you more efficient.

  Steve Jobs

  Tags in System, Process

• We hire people who want to make the best things in the world.

  Steve Jobs

  Tags in Hire

• We made the buttons on the screen look so good you’ll want to lick them.

  Steve Jobs

  Tags in Lick

• We’re just enthusiastic about what we do.

  Steve Jobs

  Tags in Enthusiastic

• We’ve demonstrated a strong track record of being very disciplined with the use of our cash. We don’t let it burn a hole in our pocket, we don’t allow it to motivate us to do stupid acquisitions. And so I think that we’d like to continue to keep our powder dry, because we do feel that there are one or more strategic opportunities in the future.

  Steve Jobs

  Topics in Future, Stupid

  Tags in Allow

• With our technology, with objects, literally three people in a garage can blow away what 200 people at Microsoft can do. Literally can blow it away. Corporate America has a need that is so huge and can save them so much money, or make them so much money, or cost them so much money if they miss it, that they are going to fuel the object revolution.

  Steve Jobs

  Topics in America, Money, Technology

• You’ll see more and more perfection of that – computer as servant. But the next thing is going to be computer as a guide or agent.

  Steve Jobs

  Tags in Next
• 

  There is no reason not to follow your heart.

  Steve Jobs

  Tags in Follow

Steve Jobs (116)

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

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