Years Quotes by Steve Jobs

Of course it was impossible to connect the dots looking forward when I was in college. But it was very, very clear…

— Steve Jobs

To turn really interesting ideas and fledgling technologies into a company that can continue to innovate for years, it requires a lot…

— Steve Jobs

iMac is next year's computer for $1,299, not last year's computer for $999.

— Steve Jobs

To do anything of magnitude takes at least five years, more likely seven or eight. Rightfully or wrongfully, that's how I think.

— Steve Jobs

The things I've done in my life have required a lot of years of work before they took off.

— Steve Jobs

The problem is I'm older now, I'm 40 years old, and this stuff doesn't change the world. It really doesn't.

— Steve Jobs

Woz is living his own life now. He hasn't been around Apple for about five years. But what he did will go…

— Steve Jobs

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

For the past 33 years, I have looked in the mirror every morning and asked myself: 'If today were the last day…

— Steve Jobs

Well, Apple invented the PC as we know it, and then it invented the graphical user interface as we know it eight…

— Steve Jobs

Each year has been so robust with problems and successes and learning experiences and human experienes that a year is a lifetime…

— Steve Jobs

Microsoft has had two goals in the last 10 years. One was to copy the Mac, and the other was to copy…

— Steve Jobs

The iPod is not a new category. Music is not new. It's not a speculative market. It's a very, very large market.…

— Steve Jobs

It took us three years to build the NeXT computer. If we'd given customers what they said they wanted, we'd have built…

— Steve Jobs

The desktop computer industry is dead. Innovation has virtually ceased. Microsoft dominates with very little innovation. That's over. Apple lost. The desktop…

— Steve Jobs

I feel like somebody just punched me in the stomach and knocked all my wind out. I'm only 30 years old and…

— Steve Jobs

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

Believe things will work out. How was I ever to know that the girl who broke my heart in university would lead…

— Steve Jobs

When I was young, there was an amazing publication called The Whole Earth Catalog, which was one of the bibles of my…

— Steve Jobs

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

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

Reed College at that time offered perhaps the best calligraphy instruction in the country… I decided to take a calligraphy class to…

— Steve Jobs

You know, Dr. Edwin Land was a troublemaker. He dropped out of Harvard and founded Polaroid. Not only was he one of…

— Steve Jobs

This revolution, the information revoultion, is a revolution of free energy as well, but of another kind: free intellectual energy. It's very…

— Steve Jobs

Woz and I started Apple in my parents' garage when I was 20. We worked hard, and in 10 years Apple had…

— Steve Jobs

The thing that drives me and my colleagues at both Apple and Pixar is that you see something very compelling to you,…

— Steve Jobs

I was at Reed [College] for only a few months. My parents intended for me to stay there for all four years…

— Steve Jobs

You know, you keep on innovating, you keep on making better stuff. And if you always want the latest and greatest, then…

— Steve Jobs

And I sort of look at us as two of the luckiest guys [Bill Gates the other] on the planet because we…

— Steve Jobs

If you haven't found it yet, keep looking. Don't settle. As with all matters of the heart, you'll know when you find…

— Steve Jobs

It wasn't that Microsoft was so brilliant or clever in copying the Mac, it's that the Mac was a sitting duck for…

— Steve Jobs

If, for some reason, we make some big mistake and IBM wins, my personal feeling is that we are going to enter…

— Steve Jobs

The web is not going to change the world, certainly not in the next 10 years. It's going to augment the world.…

— Steve Jobs

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

I'll always stay connected with Apple. I hope that throughout my life I'll sort of have the thread of my life and…

— Steve Jobs

If I had never dropped in on that single course in college, the Mac would have never had multiple typefaces or proportionally…

— Steve Jobs