Somebody once told me, ‘Manage the top line, and the bottom line will follow.’ What's the top line? It's things like, why… — Steve Jobs Copy Share Image
The subscription model of buying music is bankrupt. I think you could make available the Second Coming in a subscription model and… — Steve Jobs Copy Share Image
So when these people sell out, even though they get fabulously rich, they're gypping themselves out of one of the potentially most… — 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
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
You're missing it. This is not a one-man show. What's reinvigorating this company is two things: One, there's a lot of really… — Steve Jobs Copy Share Image
I was lucky to get into computers when it was a very young and idealistic industry. There weren't many degrees offered in… — Steve Jobs Copy Share Image
Creativity is just connecting things. When you ask creative people how they did something, they feel a little guilty because they didn't… — Steve Jobs Copy Share Image
Management is about persuading people to do things they do not want to do, while leadership is about inspiring people to do… — Steve Jobs Copy Share Image
Do your best at every job. Don't sleep! Success generates more success so be hungry for it. Hire good people with a… — Steve Jobs Copy Share Image
Most people never pick up the phone and call. Most people never ask, and that’s what separates the people who do things… — Steve Jobs Copy Share Image
Don't be trapped by dogma — which is living with the results of other people's thinking. — 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
The good music companies do an amazing thing. They have people who can pick the person that's gonna be successful out of… — Steve Jobs Copy Share Image
You cannot mandate productivity, you must provide the tools to let people become their best. — Steve Jobs Copy Share Image
Companies, as they grow to become multi-billion-dollar entities, somehow lose their vision. They insert lots of layers of middle management between the… — Steve Jobs Copy Share Image
You know we're constantly taking. We don't make most of the food we eat, we don't grow it, anyway. We wear clothes… — Steve Jobs Copy Share Image
Technology is nothing. What's important is that you have a faith in people, that they're basically good and smart, and if you… — Steve Jobs Copy Share Image
A lot of people in our industry haven't had very diverse experiences. So they don't have enough dots to connect, and they… — Steve Jobs Copy Share Image
When you ask creative people how they did something, they feel a little guilty because they didn't really do it, they just… — Steve Jobs Copy Share Image
Japan's very interesting. Some people think it copies things. I don't think that anymore. I think what they do is reinvent things.… — 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
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
