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Business Quotes by Steve Jobs

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A heart that loves its work captures Jobs’ advice that the only way to do great things is to enjoy what you do, and to keep searching if you haven’t found it yet. He also urges people to trust their gut or destiny, saying that belief never lets him down. He jokes that a pirate can be more daring than a navy sailor.

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Why join the navy if you can be a pirate?

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If a user is having a problem, it's our problem.

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How can you get fired from the company you started?

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I want to put a ding in the universe.

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Great things in business are never done by one person, they're done by a team of people.

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Making an enduring company was both harder and more important than making a great product.

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I admire Mark Zuckerberg... for not selling out, for wanting to make a company. I admire that a lot.

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The problem with the Internet startup craze isn’t that too many people are starting companies; it’s that too many people aren’t sticking…

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The web is just going to be one more of those major change factors that businesses face every decade.

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“It doesn't make sense to hire smart people and then tell them what to to , We hire smart people so they…

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Sometimes when you innovate, you make mistakes. It is best to admit them quickly, and get on with improving your other innovations.

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If I knew in 1986 how much it was going to cost to keep Pixar going, I doubt if I would have…

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Apple is the only company in the world that has all of that under one roof. We can invent a complete a…

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Not only was [Edwin Land] one of the great inventors of our time but, more important, he saw the intersection of art…

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We have never worried about numbers. In the marketplace, Apple is trying to focus the spotlight on products, because products really make…

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Woz and I started Apple in my parents' garage when I was 20. We worked hard, and in 10 years Apple had…

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I hate it when people call themselves 'entrepreneurs' when what they're really trying to do is launch a startup and then sell…

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To turn really interesting ideas and fledgling technologies into a company that can continue to innovate for years, it requires a lot…

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

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I'd say we [Apple Inc.] are the most creative of the technology companies and definitely the most artist-friendly. Almost everyone in the…

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My model for business is The Beatles. They were four guys who kept each other kind of negative tendencies in check. They…

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I was actually a fruitarian at that point in time. I ate only fruit. Now I'm a garbage can like everyone else.…

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We've had one of these before, when the dot-com bubble burst. What I told our company was that we were just going…

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When you're in a start-up, the first ten people will determine whether the company succeeds or not. Each is 10 percent of…

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Companies, as they grow to become multi-billion-dollar entities, somehow lose their vision. They insert lots of layers of middle management between the…

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The problem with the Internet startup craze isn't that too many people are starting companies; it's that too many people aren't sticking…

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You're missing it. This is not a one-man show. What's reinvigorating this company is two things: One, there's a lot of really…

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I'm convinced that about half of what separates the successful entrepreneurs from the non-successful ones is pure perseverance… Unless you have a…

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“You’ve got to find what you love. And that is as true for your work as it is for your lovers. Your…

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“The problem with the Internet startup craze isn’t that too many people are starting companies; it’s that too many people aren’t sticking…

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When you’re in a startup, the first ten people will determine whether the company succeeds or not.

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What this means is that people are seeing a stable business, which is good, and a business that is in control, which…

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We're not a media company. We don't own media. We don't own music. We don't own films or television. We're not a…

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I try to get people to see what I have. . . . When you run a computer company, you have to…

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Good PR educates people; that's all it is. You can't con people in this business. The products speak for themselves.

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Don't be trapped by dogma — which is living with the results of other people's thinking.

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Everything is based on a simple rule: Quality is the best business plan, period.

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

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Being an entrepreneur is like being a pirate. Go for the booty and discover new, uncharted lands.

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It is hard to think that a $2 billion company with 4,300-plus people couldn't compete with six people in blue jeans.

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

The reason that Apple is able to create products like iPad is because we always try to be at the intersection of technology and…

I admire Mark Zuckerberg... for not selling out, for wanting to make a company. I admire that a lot.

If you want to hire great people and have them stay, you have to be run by ideas, not hierarchy. The best ideas have…

Everything around you that you call life was made up by people that were no smarter than you and you can change it, you…

“Innovation is not about saying yes to everything. It's about saying NO to all but the most crucial features.”

I have always said if there ever came a day when I could no longer meet my duties and expectations as Apple's CEO, I…

When you first start off trying to solve a problem, the first solutions you come up with are very complex, and most people stop…

I'm not dismissing the value of higher education; I'm simply saying it comes at the expense of experience.

“To YoYo Ma: "You playing is the best argument I've ever heard for the existence of God, because I don't really believe a human…

The most important thing is a person. A person who incites your curiosity and feeds your curiosity; and machines cannot do that in the…

The tragedy is that Dell didn't win it - we lost it.

“I think great artists and great engineers are similar, in that they both have a desire to express themselves. In fact some of the…

It's rare that you see an artist in his 30s or 40s able to really contribute something amazing.

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…