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Portrait of Steve Jobs

Steve Jobs

(1955–2011) Technology Entrepreneur

695 quotes in 2264 categories

Who wants a stylus? You have to get them and put them away, and you lose them. Steve Jobs stresses that great products arise where technology meets liberal arts, and that teams should be driven by ideas, not hierarchy. He also says innovation means saying no to everything except the most essential features.

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Steve Jobs was a technology entrepreneur, best known for I, Steve.

Quick Facts About Steve Jobs

Born: February 24, 1955
Died: October 5, 2011
Profession: Technology Entrepreneur
Notable works: I, Steve

About Steve Jobs

He was a pioneer of the personal computer revolution of the 1970s and 1980s. After Apple’s board fired him in 1985, he founded the computer company NeXT and bought the animation studio Pixar in 1986, serving as its chairman and majority shareholder until 2007.

Quotes by Steve Jobs

“Don't sweat for small stuff”

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Technology alone is not enough.

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Oh wow. Oh wow. Oh wow.

Death

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“Keep looking. Don't settle”

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“I bleed in six colors.”

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Never settle for average

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Don't be evil is a load of crap.

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Love what you do...Don't settle

Funny

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

Buying

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

Books

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Everything is important- that success is in the details.

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

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Mac OS X Tiger will come out long before Longhorn.

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My job is to not be easy on people. My job is to make them better.

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

Art

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We have always been shameless about stealing great ideas.

Best job

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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…

Brain

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To follow the path that others have laid before you is a reasonable course of action; therefore all progress is made by…

Action

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Quality is more important to quantity ,one home ð run is much better than two double

Baseball

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Be a yardstick of quality. Some people aren't used to an environment where excellence is expected.

Environment

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

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

Customer

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You have to have a lot of passion for what you do... because if you don't, any rational person would give up.

Giving

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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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If you tell people they can't burn CDs of their music, as almost every current legal music service has done, or they…

Cds

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I feel like somebody just punched me in the stomach and knocked all my wind out. I'm only 30 years old and…

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

Best job

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Technology is nothing ,Whats important is that you have a faith in people,that theyre basically good and smart,and if you give them…

Faith

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Remembering that I’ll be dead soon is the most important tool I’ve ever encountered to help make the big choices in life.…

Best design

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It was one of those sort of apocalyptic moments. I remember within ten minutes of seeing the graphical user interface stuff, just…

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A lot of companies have chosen to downsize, and maybe that was the right thing for them. We chose a different path.…

Belief

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The engineering is long gone in most PC companies. In the consumer electronics companies, they don't understand the software parts of it.…

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I naively chose a college that was almost as expensive as Stanford, and all of my working-class parents savings were being spent…

Class

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These technologies can make life easier, can let us touch people we might not otherwise. You may have a child with a…

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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…

Best things

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When you grow up, you tend to get told that the world is the way it is, and your life is just…

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With our technology, with objects, literally three people in a garage can blow away what 200 people at Microsoft can do. Literally…

America

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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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“No one wants to die. Even people who want to go to heaven don’t want to die to get there. And yet…

Change agent

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Steve Jobs by topic

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