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Steve Jobs

(1955–2011) Technology Entrepreneur

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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 · Page 3

Click. Boom. Amazing!

Amazing

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Customers always want something new

Customer

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Make it like a sunflower.

Design

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Innovation is the only way to win.

Innovation

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Stay hungry, stay foolish.

Food

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No one is going to buy a big phone.

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Let's go invent tomorrow!

Future

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“... you'll know when you find it.”

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

Inspirational

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Be ready to catch the ball when it is thrown by life.

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Apple took the edge off the word 'computer.'

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I was lucky -- I found what I love to do early in life,

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If you don't have a passion, you'll give up.

Giving

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Why join the navy if you can be a pirate?

Business

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You can tell a lot about a person by who his or her heroes are.

Begin again

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The real art is knowing what to leave out, not what to put in.

Art

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After all the statistics and calculations are formulated, the one element that breathes life into marketing is good design.

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One of the failures of technology companies is that they build technologies thinking everything else will work out.

Company

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The axis today is not liberal and conservative, the axis is constructive-destructive.

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To have your whole music library with you at all times is a quantum leap in listening to music. How do we…

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And no, we don't know where it will lead. We just know there's something much bigger than any of us here.

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I think PCs are going to be like trucks. Less people will need them. And this is going to make some people…

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My opinion is that the only two computer companies that are software-driven are Apple and NeXT, and I wonder about Apple.

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The problem is I'm older now, I'm 40 years old, and this stuff doesn't change the world. It really doesn't.

Change the world

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You know, I've got a plan that could rescue Apple. I can't say any more than that it's the perfect product and…

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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…

Business

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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…

Design

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The reason that Apple is able to create products like the iPad is because we've always tried to be at the intersection…

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

Change

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First was the mouse. The second was the click wheel. And now, we're going to bring multi-touch to the market. And each…

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Be honest with yourself and with people always do everything on time. Never give up, go to your goals, even if all…

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“For the past 33 years, I have looked in the mirror every morning and asked myself: 'If today were the last day…

Death

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As individuals, people are inherently good. I have a somewhat more pessimistic view of people in groups. And I remain extremely concerned…

Better place

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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…

Big companies

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Whenever you do any one thing intensely over a period of time you have to give up other lives you could be…

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At Apple, people are putting in 18-hour days. We attract a different type of person—a person who doesn’t want to wait five…

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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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So we went to Atari and said, 'Hey, we've got this amazing thing, even built with some of your parts, and what…

Amazing things

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

Love

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