A-plus players like to work together and they don't like it if you tolerate B work. — 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
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
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
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 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
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
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
If you view computer designers as artists, they're really into more of an art form that can be mass-produced, like records, or… — Steve Jobs Copy Share Image
Your customers don't care about you. They don't care about your product or service. They care about themselves, their dreams, their goals.… — Steve Jobs Copy Share Image
I thought deeply about this. I ended up concluding that the worst thing that could possibly happen as we get big and… — 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
Ask for feedback from people with diverse backgrounds. Each one will tell you one useful thing. If you're at the top of… — Steve Jobs Copy Share Image
I mean, some people say, 'Oh, God, if [Jobs] got run over by a bus, Apple would be in trouble.' And, you… — 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
I told [Bill Gates] I believed every word of what I said but that I should never have said it in public.… — 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
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
When you're in a start-up, the first ten people will determine whether the company succeeds or not. Each is 10 percent of… — 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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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 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 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
Be honest with yourself and with people always do everything on time. Never give up, go to your goals, even if all… — Steve Jobs Copy Share Image
Whenever you do any one thing intensely over a period of time you have to give up other lives you could be… — 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
![“I mean, some people say, 'Oh, God, if [Jobs] got run over by a bus, Apple would be in trouble.' And, you know, I think it wouldn't be a party, but there are really capable people at Apple. My job is to make the whole executive team good enough to be successors, so that's what I try to do.” quote by Steve Jobs](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/38e/steve-jobs-307_apple_i-mean-some-people-say-oh-god-if-jobs-go_2546301.jpg)
![“I told [Bill Gates] I believed every word of what I said but that I should never have said it in public. I wish him the best, I really do. I just think he and Microsoft are a bit narrow. He'd be a broader guy if he had dropped acid once or gone off to an ashram when he was younger.” quote by Steve Jobs](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/6d8/steve-jobs-307_acid_i-told-bill-gates-i-believed-every-word_1509930.jpg)
