The only way to do great work is to love what you do. If you daven't found it yet, keep looking. Don't… — Steve Jobs Copy Share Image
There's a lot of symbolism to your return. Is that going to be enough to reinvigorate the company with a sense of… — Steve Jobs Copy Share Image
We did not enter the search business. Google entered the phone business. Make no mistake they want to kill the iPhone. We… — Steve Jobs Copy Share Image
Pixar is seen by a lot of folks as an overnight success, but if you really look closely, most overnight successes took… — Steve Jobs Copy Share Image
Companies must have a noble cause, and it's the leaders job to transform that noble cause into such an inspiring vision, that… — Steve Jobs Copy Share Image
Throughout my years in business, I discovered something. I would always ask why you do things. The answers that I would invariably… — Steve Jobs Copy Share Image
The people who built Silicon Valley were engineers. They learned business, they learned a lot of different things, but they had a… — Steve Jobs Copy Share Image
My model for business is The Beatles: They were four guys that kept each others' negative tendencies in check; they balanced each… — Steve Jobs Copy Share Image
What had been the focus of my entire adult life was gone, and it was devastating. I didn't really know what to… — Steve Jobs Copy Share Image
Marketing is about values. It's a complicated and noisy world, and we're not going to get a chance to get people to… — Steve Jobs Copy Share Image
The system is that there is no system. That doesn't mean we don't have process. Apple is a very disciplined company, and… — Steve Jobs Copy Share Image
Microsoft has had two goals in the last 10 years. One was to copy the Mac, and the other was to copy… — Steve Jobs Copy Share Image
I was in the parking lot, with the key in the car, and I thought to myself: If this is my last… — Steve Jobs Copy Share Image
Our approach is to think of companies not as businesses but as collections of people. We [Apple]want to qualitatively change the way… — Steve Jobs Copy Share Image
My job is to not be easy on people. My job is to make them better. My job is to pull things… — Steve Jobs Copy Share Image
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… — Steve Jobs Copy Share Image
“When you’re young, you look at television and think, There’s a conspiracy. The networks have conspired to dumb us down. But when… — Steve Jobs Copy Share Image
You have to trust in something - your gut, destiny, life, karma, whatever. This approach has never let me down, and it… — Steve Jobs Copy Share Image
My passion has been to build an enduring company where people were motivated to make great products. Everything else was secondary. Sure,… — Steve Jobs Copy Share Image
A lot of people think big business in America is a bad thing. I think it's a really good thing. Most people… — Steve Jobs Copy Share Image
If you keep your eye on the profit, you’re going to skimp on the product. But if you focus on making really… — Steve Jobs Copy Share Image
When you're young, you look at television and think, there's a conspiracy. The networks have conspired to dumb us down. But when… — Steve Jobs Copy Share Image
We have never worried about numbers. In the market place, Apple is trying to focus the spotlight on products, because products really… — Steve Jobs Copy Share Image
I was lucky - I found what I loved to do early in life. Woz and I started Apple in my parents'… — Steve Jobs Copy Share Image
Many companies forget what it means to make great products. After initial success, sales and marketing people take over and the product… — Steve Jobs Copy Share Image
So when these people sell out, even though they get fabulously rich, they're gypping themselves out of one of the potentially most… — Steve Jobs Copy Share Image
When companies get bigger they try to replicate their success. But they assume their magic came from process. They try to use… — Steve Jobs Copy Share Image
Apple has some tremendous assets, but I believe without some attention, the company could, could, could - I'm searching for the right… — Steve Jobs Copy Share Image
Our DNA is as a consumer company - for that individual customer who's voting thumbs up or thumbs down. That's who we… — Steve Jobs Copy Share Image
Who wants a stylus. You have to get em and put em away, and you lose em. Yuck. Nobody wants a stylus. — Steve Jobs Copy Share Image
The reason that Apple is able to create products like iPad is because we always try to be at the intersection of technology and… — Steve Jobs Copy Share Image
I admire Mark Zuckerberg... for not selling out, for wanting to make a company. I admire that a lot. — Steve Jobs Copy Share Image
If you want to hire great people and have them stay, you have to be run by ideas, not hierarchy. The best ideas have… — Steve Jobs Copy Share Image
Everything around you that you call life was made up by people that were no smarter than you and you can change it, you… — Steve Jobs Copy Share Image
“Innovation is not about saying yes to everything. It's about saying NO to all but the most crucial features.” — Steve Jobs Copy Share Image
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… — Steve Jobs Copy Share Image
When you first start off trying to solve a problem, the first solutions you come up with are very complex, and most people stop… — Steve Jobs Copy Share Image
I'm not dismissing the value of higher education; I'm simply saying it comes at the expense of experience. — Steve Jobs Copy Share Image
“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… — Steve Jobs Copy Share Image
The most important thing is a person. A person who incites your curiosity and feeds your curiosity; and machines cannot do that in the… — Steve Jobs Copy Share Image