A-plus players like to work together and they don't like it if you tolerate B work. — Steve Jobs Copy Share Image
The greatest artists like Dylan, Picasso and Newton risked failure. And if we want to be great, we've got to risk it… — Steve Jobs Copy Share Image
I don't need a hard disk in my computer if I can get to the server faster... carrying around these non-connected computers… — Steve Jobs Copy Share Image
If Macintosh hadn't been successful, then I should have just thrown in the towel, because my vision of the whole industry would… — 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… — Steve Jobs Copy Share Image
If, for some reason, we make some big mistake and IBM wins, my personal feeling is that we are going to enter… — Steve Jobs Copy Share Image
If I knew in 1986 how much it was going to cost to keep Pixar going, I doubt if I would have… — Steve Jobs Copy Share Image
If today were my last day, would I do what I'm doing?...If the answer was 'No' too many days in a row,… — Steve Jobs Copy Share Image
When we hire someone, even if they are going to be in marketing, I will have them talk to the design folks… — 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… — Steve Jobs Copy Share Image
Most people do not ever pick up the phone. They never ask, and that is what separates the people that do things… — Steve Jobs Copy Share Image
Every once in a while a revolutionary product comes along that changes everything. It's very fortunate if you can work on just… — Steve Jobs Copy Share Image
You know, you keep on innovating, you keep on making better stuff. And if you always want the latest and greatest, then… — Steve Jobs Copy Share Image
We think that computers are the most remarkable tools that humankind has ever come up with, and we think that people are… — Steve Jobs Copy Share Image
I'd like the people teaching my kids to be good enough that they could get a job at the company I work… — 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… — Steve Jobs Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
I don't want to fail, of course. But even though I didn't know how bad things really were, I still had a… — Steve Jobs Copy Share Image
The difference between the best worker on computer hardware and the average may be 2 to 1, if you're lucky. With automobiles,… — Steve Jobs Copy Share Image
If you ask who are the customers of education, the customers of education are the society at large, the employers who hire… — Steve Jobs Copy Share Image
When I hire somebody really senior, competence is the ante. They have to be really smart. But the real issue for me… — Steve Jobs Copy Share Image
If I had never dropped in on that single course in college, the Mac would have never had multiple typefaces or proportionally… — Steve Jobs Copy Share Image
If it could save a person's life, could you find a way to save ten seconds off the boot time? If there… — Steve Jobs Copy Share Image
You have to trust that the dots will somehow connect in your future... The only way to do great work is to… — Steve Jobs Copy Share Image
With our technology, with objects, literally three people in a garage can blow away what 200 people at Microsoft can do. Literally… — Steve Jobs Copy Share Image
People need to have the incentive that if they invest and succeed, they can make a fair profit. Otherwise they'll stop investing. — Steve Jobs Copy Share Image
You have to have a lot of passion for what you do... because if you don't, any rational person would give up. — Steve Jobs Copy Share Image
Bill Gates'd be a broader guy if he had dropped acid once or gone off to an ashram when he was younger. — Steve Jobs Copy Share Image
I know from my own education that if I hadn't encountered two or three individuals that spent extra time with me, I'm… — Steve Jobs Copy Share Image
If you are working on something exciting that you really care about, you don't have to be pushed. The vision pulls you. — Steve Jobs Copy Share Image
I wish developing great products was as easy as writing a check. If that was the case, Microsoft would have great products. — Steve Jobs Copy Share Image
It's very simple: The more successful you are, the more you'll earn. But if you're not successful, you will not earn a… — Steve Jobs Copy Share Image
I don't mind if people don't like me. Well, I might a little ... but I really mind it when somebody uses… — Steve Jobs Copy Share Image
Innovation is usually the result of connections of past experiences. But if you have the same experiences as everyone else, you are… — 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
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
I admire Mark Zuckerberg... for not selling out, for wanting to make a company. I admire that a lot. — Steve Jobs Copy Share
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
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
“Innovation is not about saying yes to everything. It's about saying NO to all but the most crucial features.” — Steve Jobs Copy Share
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
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
I'm not dismissing the value of higher education; I'm simply saying it comes at the expense of experience. — Steve Jobs Copy Share
“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
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
“I think great artists and great engineers are similar, in that they both have a desire to express themselves. In fact some of the… — Steve Jobs Copy Share
It's rare that you see an artist in his 30s or 40s able to really contribute something amazing. — Steve Jobs Copy Share
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… — Steve Jobs Copy Share
