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
One: demonstrations always crash. And two: the probability of them crashing goes up exponentially with the number of people watching. — Steve Jobs Copy Share Image
People don't know what they want until you show it to them. That's why I never rely on marketing research. Our task… — Steve Jobs Copy Share Image
I'm one of those people that think Thomas Edison and the light bulb changed the world more than Karl Marx ever did. — 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
Life can be much broader once you discover one simple fact: Everything you call life was made up by people no smarter… — Steve Jobs Copy Share Image
I found that there were these incredibly great people at doing certain things, and you couldn't replace one of these people with… — Steve Jobs Copy Share Image
A lot of people think big business in America is a bad thing. I think it's a really good thing. Most people… — Steve Jobs Copy Share Image
Most people make the mistake of thinking design is what it looks like. People think it's this veneer - that the designers… — Steve Jobs Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
We wanted to more richly experience why we were alive, not just make a better life, and so people went in search… — Steve Jobs Copy Share Image
So [Polaroid's Dr. Edwin] Land, at 75, went off to spend the remainder of his life doing pure science, trying to crack… — Steve Jobs Copy Share Image
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
The manual for WordStar, the most popular word-processing program, is 400 pages thick. To write a novel, you have to read a… — 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
My model for business is The Beatles. They were four guys who kept each other kind of negative tendencies in check. 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
We believe people with passion can change the world for the better. That's what we believe. And we believe that those people… — 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
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
Stealing music is not right, and I can understand people being very upset about their intellectual property being stolen. — Steve Jobs Copy Share Image
It places value on experience versus intellectual understanding. I saw a lot of people contemplating things but it didn't seem to lead… — 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
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
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
We have never worried about numbers. In the marketplace, Apple is trying to focus the spotlight on products, because products really make… — Steve Jobs Copy Share Image
These technologies can make life easier, can let us touch people we might not otherwise. You may have a child with a… — Steve Jobs Copy Share Image
If you tell people they can't burn CDs of their music, as almost every current legal music service has done, or they… — 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
The most compelling reason for most people to buy a computer for the home will be to link it to a nationwide… — Steve Jobs Copy Share Image
When I went to school, it was right after the '60s and before this general wave of practical purposefulness had set in…… — Steve Jobs Copy Share Image
Innovation has nothing to do with how many R & D dollars you have. When Apple came up with the Mac, IBM… — Steve Jobs Copy Share Image
We've had one of these before, when the dot-com bubble burst. What I told our company was that we were just going… — 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
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
As individuals, people are inherently good. I have a somewhat more pessimistic view of people in groups. And I remain extremely concerned… — 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
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
I hate the way people use slide presentations instead of thinking. People would confront a problem by creating a presentation. I wanted… — 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