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
I'm the only person I know that's lost a quarter of a billion dollars in one year. It's very character-building. — Steve Jobs Copy Share Image
The most powerful person in the world is the story teller. The storyteller sets the vision, values and agenda of an entire… — 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… — 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
There's nothing that makes my day more than getting an e-mail from some random person in the universe who just bought an… — 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
In most cases, strengths and weaknesses are two sides of the same coin. A strength in one situation is a weakness in… — Steve Jobs Copy Share Image
I met Woz when I was 13, at a friend's garage. He was about 18. He was, like, the first person I… — 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
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
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 start looking at a problem and it seems really simple, you don't really understand the complexity of the problem. Then… — 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
We don't believe it's possible to protect digital content. What's new is this amazingly efficient distribution system for stolen property called the… — Steve Jobs Copy Share Image
I'm sure a lot of you had this experience when you're changing. You're growing as a person and people tend to treat… — Steve Jobs Copy Share Image
Recruiting is hard. It's just finding the needles in the haystack. You can't know enough in a one-hour interview. So, in the… — Steve Jobs Copy Share Image
In order to learn how to do something well, you have to fail sometimes. In order to fail, there has to 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 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
