All the work I've done in my life will be obsolete by the time I'm fifty. — Steve Jobs Copy Share Image
The things I've done in my life have required a lot of years of work before they took off. — Steve Jobs Copy Share Image
Expose yourself to the best things humans have done and then try to bring those things into what you are doing. — Steve Jobs Copy Share Image
I've done a lot of things I'm not proud of, such as getting my girlfriend pregnant when I was 23 and the… — Steve Jobs Copy Share Image
I'm as proud of many of the things we haven't done as the things we have done. Innovation is saying no to… — Steve Jobs Copy Share Image
It comes down to trying to expose yourself to the best things humans have done. And then try to bring those things… — Steve Jobs Copy Share Image
Being the richest man in the cemetery doesn't matter to me. Going to bed at night saying we've done something wonderful, that's… — Steve Jobs Copy Share Image
If I were running Apple, I would milk the Macintosh for all it's worth - and get busy on the next great… — Steve Jobs Copy Share Image
People say sometimes, "You work in the fastest-moving industry in the world." I don't feel that way. I think I work in… — Steve Jobs Copy Share Image
If you want to live your life in a creative way, as an artist, you have to not look back too much.… — Steve Jobs Copy Share Image
If you tell people they can't burn CDs of their music, as almost every current legal music service has done, or they… — Steve Jobs Copy Share Image
What is Apple, after all? Apple is about people who think 'outside the box,' people who want to use computers to help… — Steve Jobs Copy Share Image
Pointing is a metaphor we all know. We've done a lot of studies and tests on that, and it's much faster to… — Steve Jobs Copy Share Image
Some people can do one thing magnificently, like Michelangelo, and others make things like semiconductors or build 747 airplanes -- that type… — Steve Jobs Copy Share Image
My model for business is The Beatles. They were four guys who kept each other kind of negative tendencies in check. They… — Steve Jobs Copy Share Image
People think focus means saying yes to the thing you've got to focus on. But that's not what it means at all.… — Steve Jobs Copy Share Image
I have a great respect for incremental improvement, and I've done that sort of thing in my life, but I've always been… — Steve Jobs Copy Share Image
Ultimately, it comes down to taste. It comes down to trying to expose yourself to the best things that humans have done… — Steve Jobs Copy Share Image
I've read something that Bill Gates said about six months ago. He said, ‘I worked really, really hard in my 20s.’ And… — 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
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
