Coming back to America was, for me, much more of a culture shock than going to India. The people in the Indian… — Steve Jobs Copy Share Image
It's not about charisma and personality, it's about results and products and those very bedrock things that are why people at Apple… — 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
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
It's understandable that the music companies that are comprised of people that are successful by making good creative decisions - they have… — Steve Jobs Copy Share Image
John Sculley ruined Apple and he ruined it by bringing a set of values to the top of Apple which were corrupt… — Steve Jobs Copy Share Image
Companies must have a noble cause, and it's the leaders job to transform that noble cause into such an inspiring vision, that… — Steve Jobs Copy Share Image
We think the Mac will sell zillions, but we didn't build the Mac for anybody else. We built it for ourselves. We… — Steve Jobs Copy Share Image
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 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
The over-all point is that new technology will not necessarily replace old technology, but it will date it. By definition. Eventually, it… — Steve Jobs Copy Share Image
Manage the top line: your strategy, your people, and your products, and the bottom line will follow. — Steve Jobs Copy Share Image
I hate it when people call themselves 'entrepreneurs' when what they're really trying to do is launch a startup and then sell… — Steve Jobs Copy Share Image
I got very interested in people who had discovered something more significant than ... intellectual, abstract understanding. — 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
People say sometimes, "You work in the fastest-moving industry in the world." I don't feel that way. I think I work in… — Steve Jobs Copy Share Image
At Apple, people are putting in 18-hour days. We attract a different type of person—a person who doesn’t want to wait five… — 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
Marketing is about values. It's a complicated and noisy world, and we're not going to get a chance to get people to… — Steve Jobs Copy Share Image
It is hard to think that a $2 billion company with 4,300-plus people couldn't compete with six people in blue jeans. — Steve Jobs Copy Share Image
And I sort of look at us as two of the luckiest guys [Bill Gates the other] on the planet because we… — Steve Jobs Copy Share Image
Find people who are competent and really bright, but more importantly, people who care exactly about the same things you care about. — 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
There will always be music on the Internet that people can steal. What's new is not theft. What's new is a distribution… — 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
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