--- title: "7 Five Quotes By Steve Jobs" description: "7 Five quotes by Steve Jobs. Plus more from Steve Jobs and more Five sayings from other authors." image: "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/3f0/steve-jobs-307_apples_i-was-actually-a-fruitarian-at-that-poin_817501.jpg" --- > [I was actually a fruitarian at that point in time. I ate only fruit. Now I'm a garbage can like everyone else.…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/steve-jobs/i-was-actually-a-fruitarian-at-that-point-in-time-i-ate-only-fruit/) [Steve Jobs](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/steve-jobs/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/3f0/steve-jobs-307_apples_i-was-actually-a-fruitarian-at-that-poin_817501.jpg) > [Woz is living his own life now. He hasn't been around Apple for about five years. But what he did will go…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/steve-jobs/woz-is-living-his-own-life-now-he-hasn-t-been-around-apple-for-about/) [Steve Jobs](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/steve-jobs/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/5fa/steve-jobs-307_apples_woz-is-living-his-own-life-now-he-hasn-t_1362819.jpg) > [To do anything of magnitude takes at least five years, more likely seven or eight. Rightfully or wrongfully, that's how I think.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/steve-jobs/to-do-anything-of-magnitude-takes-at-least-five-years-more-likely/) [Steve Jobs](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/steve-jobs/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/dfb/steve-jobs-307_eight_to-do-anything-of-magnitude-takes-at-lea_1733532.jpg) > [Companies, as they grow to become multi-billion-dollar entities, somehow lose their vision. They insert lots of layers of middle management between the…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/steve-jobs/companies-as-they-grow-to-become-multi-billion-dollar-entities-2/) [Steve Jobs](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/steve-jobs/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/bdd/steve-jobs-307_billions_companies-as-they-grow-to-become-multi-b_1841175.jpg) > [I'd like the people teaching my kids to be good enough that they could get a job at the company I work…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/steve-jobs/i-d-like-the-people-teaching-my-kids-to-be-good-enough-that-they/) [Steve Jobs](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/steve-jobs/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/84e/steve-jobs-307_be-good_i-d-like-the-people-teaching-my-kids-to_2185192.jpg) > [If it could save a person's life, could you find a way to save ten seconds off the boot time? If there…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/steve-jobs/if-it-could-save-a-person-s-life-could-you-find-a-way-to-save-ten/) [Steve Jobs](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/steve-jobs/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/091/steve-jobs-307_boots_if-it-could-save-a-person-s-life-could-y_2730981.jpg) > [Our friends up north spend over five billion dollars on research and development and all they seem to do is copy Google…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/steve-jobs/our-friends-up-north-spend-over-five-billion-dollars-on-research-and/) [Steve Jobs](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/steve-jobs/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/5a6/steve-jobs-307_apples_our-friends-up-north-spend-over-five-bil_2912065.jpg) ## Other authors on Five ## More by Steve Jobs > [Who wants a stylus. You have to get em and put em away, and you lose em. Yuck. Nobody wants a stylus.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/steve-jobs/who-wants-a-stylus-you-have-to-get-em-and-put-em-away-and-you-lose-em/) [Steve Jobs](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/steve-jobs/) > [The reason that Apple is able to create products like iPad is because we always try to be at the intersection of technology and…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/steve-jobs/the-reason-that-apple-is-able-to-create-products-like-ipad-is-because/) [Steve Jobs](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/steve-jobs/) > [I admire Mark Zuckerberg... for not selling out, for wanting to make a company. I admire that a lot.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/steve-jobs/i-admire-mark-zuckerberg-for-not-selling-out-for-wanting-to-make-a/) [Steve Jobs](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/steve-jobs/) > [If you want to hire great people and have them stay, you have to be run by ideas, not hierarchy. The best ideas have…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/steve-jobs/if-you-want-to-hire-great-people-and-have-them-stay-you-have-to-be/) [Steve Jobs](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/steve-jobs/) > [Everything around you that you call life was made up by people that were no smarter than you and you can change it, you…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/steve-jobs/everything-around-you-that-you-call-life-was-made-up-by-people-that/) [Steve Jobs](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/steve-jobs/) > [“Innovation is not about saying yes to everything. It's about saying NO to all but the most crucial features.”](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/steve-jobs/innovation-is-not-about-saying-yes-to-everything-it-s-about-saying-no/) [Steve Jobs](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/steve-jobs/) > [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…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/steve-jobs/i-have-always-said-if-there-ever-came-a-day-when-i-could-no-longer/) [Steve Jobs](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/steve-jobs/) > [When you first start off trying to solve a problem, the first solutions you come up with are very complex, and most people stop…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/steve-jobs/when-you-first-start-off-trying-to-solve-a-problem-the-first/) [Steve Jobs](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/steve-jobs/) > [I'm not dismissing the value of higher education; I'm simply saying it comes at the expense of experience.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/steve-jobs/i-m-not-dismissing-the-value-of-higher-education-i-m-simply-saying-it/) [Steve Jobs](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/steve-jobs/) > [“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…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/steve-jobs/to-yoyo-ma-you-playing-is-the-best-argument-i-ve-ever-heard-for-the/) [Steve Jobs](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/steve-jobs/) > [The most important thing is a person. A person who incites your curiosity and feeds your curiosity; and machines cannot do that in the…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/steve-jobs/the-most-important-thing-is-a-person-a-person-who-incites-your/) [Steve Jobs](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/steve-jobs/) > [The tragedy is that Dell didn't win it - we lost it.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/steve-jobs/the-tragedy-is-that-dell-didn-t-win-it-we-lost-it/) [Steve Jobs](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/steve-jobs/) > [“I think great artists and great engineers are similar, in that they both have a desire to express themselves. In fact some of the…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/steve-jobs/i-think-great-artists-and-great-engineers-are-similar-in-that-they/) [Steve Jobs](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/steve-jobs/) > [It's rare that you see an artist in his 30s or 40s able to really contribute something amazing.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/steve-jobs/it-s-rare-that-you-see-an-artist-in-his-30s-or-40s-able-to-really/) [Steve Jobs](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/steve-jobs/) > [We're going to be able to ask our computers to monitor things for us, and when certain conditions happen, are triggered, the computers will…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/steve-jobs/we-re-going-to-be-able-to-ask-our-computers-to-monitor-things-for-us/) [Steve Jobs](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/steve-jobs/) ```json { "@context": "https://schema.org", "@graph": [ { "@type": "ItemList", "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/five/steve-jobs/#itemlist", "name": "7 Five Quotes By Steve Jobs", "numberOfItems": 7, "itemListElement": [ { "@type": "ListItem", "position": 1, "item": { "@type": "Quotation", "text": "I was actually a fruitarian at that point in time. 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