Ideas Quotes by Steve Jobs

To me, ideas are worth nothing unless executed. They are just a multiplier. Execution is worth millions.

— Steve Jobs

You should never go to a meeting or make a telephone call without a clear idea of what you are trying to…

— Steve Jobs

We have always been shameless about stealing great ideas.

— Steve Jobs

You have to be burning with "an idea, or a problem, or a wrong that you want to right." If you're not…

— Steve Jobs

All we are is our ideas, or people. That's what keeps us going to work in the morning, to hang around these…

— Steve Jobs

Kick-start your brain. New ideas come from watching something, talking to people, experimenting, asking questions and getting out of the office!

— Steve Jobs

I know you have 1000 great ideas for things that iTunes could do. And we have 1000 more. But innovation is not…

— Steve Jobs

To turn really interesting ideas and fledgling technologies into a company that can continue to innovate for years, it requires a lot…

— Steve Jobs

If you haven't found it yet, keep looking. Don't settle. As with all matters of the heart, you'll know when you find…

— Steve Jobs

If you want to hire great people and have them stay, you have to be run by ideas, not hierarchy. The best…

— Steve Jobs

I think money is a wonderful thing because it enables you to do things. It enables you to invest in ideas that…

— Steve Jobs

That's always been in my mind my metaphor for a team working really hard on something they're passionate about. It's that through…

— Steve Jobs

We all have a short period of time on this earth-We probably only have the opportunity to do a few things really…

— Steve Jobs

In order to learn how to do something well, you have to fail sometimes. In order to fail, there has to be…

— Steve Jobs

The only problem with Microsoft is they just have no taste. They have absolutely no taste. And I don't mean that in…

— Steve Jobs

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

— Steve Jobs

I was at Reed [College] for only a few months. My parents intended for me to stay there for all four years…

— Steve Jobs

So when a good idea comes, you know, part of my job is to move it around, just see what different people…

— Steve Jobs

There’s a temptation in our networked age to think that ideas can be developed by email and iChat. That’s crazy. Creativity comes…

— Steve Jobs

Ultimately, it comes down to taste. It comes down to trying to expose yourself to the best things that humans have done…

— Steve Jobs

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

Unless you've a lot of passion about this, you're not gonna survive. You're gonna give it up. So you've got to have…

— Steve Jobs

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

I'm convinced that about half of what separates the successful entrepreneurs from the non-successful ones is pure perseverance… Unless you have a…

— Steve Jobs

It's the disease of thinking that a having a great idea is really 90% of the work. And if you just tell…

— Steve Jobs