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Inspirational Quotes by Steve Jobs

134 Inspirational quotes by Steve Jobs

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A first solution that looks like a tangled knot shows how easy it is to overthink a problem. Jobs reminds us that choosing what not to do can be as important as picking what to do. He also says that real innovation separates a leader from anyone who simply follows.

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Technology alone is not enough.

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Don't be evil is a load of crap.

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Love what you do...Don't settle

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You've got to find what you love.

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Don't just live a life; build one.

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None of us are as creative as all of us.

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Click. Boom. Amazing!

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Make it like a sunflower.

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I end up not buying a lot of things, because I find them ridiculous.

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Our job is to read things that are not yet on the page.

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If you're afraid of failing you won't get very far

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Great art stretches the taste, it doesn't follow tastes.

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Overnight success stories take a long time.

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“And the only way to do great work is to love what you do… Don't settle”

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Somewhere between the janitor and the CEO, reasons stop mattering.

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I'm as proud of what we don't do as I am of what we do.

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You go to your TV to turn your brain off. You go to the computer when you want to turn your brain…

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Customers don't measure you on how hard you tried, they measure you on what you deliver.

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

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Shake off this erroneous notion that life is there and you're just gonna live in it, versus embrace it, change it, improve…

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The things I've done in my life have required a lot of years of work before they took off.

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That's been one of my mantras - focus and simplicity. Simple can be harder than complex.

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Do you create anything, or just criticize others work and belittle their motivations?

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“You can't connect the dots looking forward; you can only connect them looking backwards. So you have to trust that the dots…

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I don't really care about being right, I just care about success. I don't mind being wrong, and I'll admit that I'm…

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The only problem with Microsoft is they just have no taste. They have absolutely no taste. And I don't mean that in…

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Innovation has nothing to do with how many R & D dollars you have. When Apple came up with the Mac, IBM…

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When you're doing something for yourself, or your best friend or family, you're not going to cheese out. If you don't love…

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I didn't see it then, but it turned out that getting fired from Apple was the best thing that could have ever…

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It's hard to tell with these Internet startups if they're really interested in building companies or if they're just interested in the…

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I hate the way people use slide presentations instead of thinking. People would confront a problem by creating a presentation. I wanted…

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Your work is going to fill a large part of your life, and the only way to be truly satisfied is to…

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Recruiting is hard. It's just finding the needles in the haystack. You can't know enough in a one-hour interview. So, in the…

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I'm sure a lot of you had this experience when you're changing. You're growing as a person and people tend to treat…

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Believe that things will work out... follow your intuition and curiosity... trust your heart even when it leads you off the well-worn…

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You have to trust that the dots will somehow connect in your future... The only way to do great work is to…

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Heres to the crazy ones, the misfits, the rebels, the troublemakers, the round pegs in the square holes¦ the ones who see…

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No one is going to buy a big phone.

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Let's go invent tomorrow!

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Don't be afraid, you can do it.

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