Vision Quotes by Steve Jobs

12 Vision quotes by Steve Jobs

Steve Jobs’ thoughts on vision feel like a quick spark of the relentless drive that reshaped technology and culture. Though limited to twelve entries, each line distills his belief in simplicity, focus, and the power of daring ideas.

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I would rather gamble on our vision than make a 'me, too' product.

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Your time on this earth is limited, don’t live someone else's life, live by your vision.

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If you are working on something exciting that you really care about, you don't have to be pushed. The vision pulls you.

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Companies must have a noble cause, and it's the leaders job to transform that noble cause into such an inspiring vision, that…

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We're gambling on our vision, and we would rather do that than make "me too" products. Let some other companies do that.…

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I think the Macintosh was created by a group of people who felt that ah there wasn't a strict vision between sort…

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The most powerful person in the world is the story teller. The storyteller sets the vision, values and agenda of an entire…

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If Macintosh hadn't been successful, then I should have just thrown in the towel, because my vision of the whole industry would…

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So [Polaroid's Dr. Edwin] Land, at 75, went off to spend the remainder of his life doing pure science, trying to crack…

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Companies, as they grow to become multi-billion-dollar entities, somehow lose their vision. They insert lots of layers of middle management between the…

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Whenever you do any one thing intensely over a period of time you have to give up other lives you could be…

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My job is to not be easy on people. My job is to make them better. My job is to pull things…

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I'm not dismissing the value of higher education; I'm simply saying it comes at the expense of experience.

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The tragedy is that Dell didn't win it - we lost it.

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