Steve Jobs Quotes

Quotes of Steve Jobs are truly filled with wisdom and good insights. His ambitions and goals in life have inspired huge number of businessmen and entrepreneurs to make the best out of them and encourage to develop their business even more better. Steve Jobs is surely one of the most prominent personality you should know if you’re looking for inspirations and motivation to be a better person.

During his life, he has quoted many inspirational and encouraging words of wisdom. As I read Steve Jobs quotes, I myself feel inspired. You can feel the aspiration and hope and encouragement enveloping in every word he has quoted. Scroll below to see the collection of quotes from Steve Jobs, categorized in leadership, famous quotes and inspirational topic. I’ve also covered other famous people’s quotes like Albert Einstein quotes that you may want to read as well.

Steve Jobs Quotes

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Design is not just what it looks like and feels like.
Design is how it works.
— Steve Jobs

The aesthetic, the quality, has to be carried all the way through.
— Steve Jobs

Creativity is just connecting things.
When you ask creative people how they did something,
They feel a little guilty because they didn’t really do it,
They just saw something.
It seemed obvious to them after a while.
— Steve Jobs

What a computer is to me is the most remarkable tool
that we have ever come up with.
It’s the equivalent of a bicycle for our minds.
— Steve Jobs

Your work is going to fill a large part of your life,
And the only way to be truly satisfied is
To do what you believe is great work.
And the only way to do great work is to love what you do.
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 it.
— Steve Jobs

Quality is more important that quantity.
One home run is much better than two doubles.
— Steve Jobs

We’re gambling on our vision,
and we would rather do that than make “me, too” products.
Let some other companies do that.
For us, it’s always the next dream.
— Steve Jobs

Being the richest man in the cemetery doesn’t matter to me…
Going to bed at night saying we’ve done something wonderful…
That’s what matters to me.
— Steve Jobs

You can’t con people in this business.
The products speak for themselves.
— Steve Jobs

There are downsides to everything; there are unintended consequences to everything.
The most corrosive piece of technology that I’ve ever seen is called television —
But then, again, television, at its best, is magnificent.
— Steve Jobs

We made the buttons on the screen look so good you’ll want to lick them.
— Steve Jobs

Steve Jobs Quotes on Leadership

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Be a yardstick of quality.
Some people aren’t used to an environment where excellence is expected.
— Steve Jobs

My model for business is The Beatles:
They were four guys that kept each other’s negative tendencies in check;
They balanced each other.
And the total was greater than the sum of the parts.
Great things in business are not done by one person,
They are done by a team of people.
— Steve Jobs

It’s really hard to design products by focus groups.
A lot of times, people don’t know what they want until you show it to them…
That doesn’t mean we don’t listen to customers,
But it’s hard for them to tell you what they want
When they’ve never seen anything remotely like it.
— Steve Jobs

Innovation has nothing to do with how many R&D dollars you have.
When Apple came up with the Mac, IBM was spending at least 100 times more on R&D.
It’s not about money.
It’s about the people you have, how you’re led, and how much you get it.
— Steve Jobs

It’s more fun to be a pirate than to join the navy.
— Steve Jobs

Innovation distinguishes between a leader and a follower.
— Steve Jobs

My job is not to be easy on people.
My jobs is to take these great people we have
and to push them and make them even better.
— Steve Jobs

My job is to make the whole executive team good enough to be successors,
so that’s what I try to do.
— Steve Jobs

Steve jobs inspirational quotes

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Your time is limited, so don’t waste it living someone else’s life.
Don’t be trapped by dogma – which is living
with the results of other people’s thinking.
Don’t let the noise of other’s opinions drown out your own inner voice.
And most important, have the courage to follow your heart and intuition.
They somehow already know what you truly want to become.
Everything else is secondary.
— Steve Jobs

Here’s to the crazy ones, the misfits, the rebels, the troublemakers,
the round pegs in the square holes…
the ones who see things differently —
they’re not fond of rules…
You can quote them, disagree with them, glorify or vilify them,
but the only thing you can’t do is ignore them because they change things…
they push the human race forward,
And while some may see them as the crazy ones,
We see genius, because the ones who are crazy enough
to think that they can change the world, are the ones who do.
— Steve Jobs

If you want to live your life in a creative way,
As an artist, you have to not look back too much.
You have to be willing to take whatever you’ve done
And whoever you were and throw them away.
— Steve Jobs

I’m actually as proud of the things we haven’t done as the things I have done.
Innovation is saying no to 1,000 things.
— Steve Jobs

That’s been one of my mantras – focus and simplicity.
Simple can be harder than complex:
You have to work hard to get your thinking clean to make it simple.
But it’s worth it in the end,
because once you get there, you can move mountains.
— Steve Jobs

Remembering that I’ll be dead soon is the most important tool
I’ve ever encountered to help me make the big choices in life.
Because almost everything –
All external expectations, all pride, all fear of embarrassment or failure –
These things just fall away in the face of death,
Leaving only what is truly important.
Remembering that you are going to die is
The best way I know to avoid the trap of thinking you have something to lose.
You are already naked.
There is no reason not to follow your heart. …
Stay hungry. Stay foolish
— Steve Jobs

These technologies can make life easier, can let us touch people we might not otherwise. You may have a child with a birth defect and be able to get in touch with other parents and support groups, get medical information, the latest experimental drugs. These things can profoundly influence life. I’m not downplaying that. But it’s a disservice to constantly put things in this radical new light — that it’s going to change everything. Things don’t have to change the world to be important.
— Steve Jobs

Picasso had a saying: ‘Good artists copy, great artists steal.’
We have always been shameless about stealing great ideas…
I think part of what made the Macintosh great was that
The people working on it were musicians, poets, artists, zoologists and historians
Who also happened to be the best computer scientists in the world.
— Steve Jobs

When you’re a carpenter making a beautiful chest of drawers, you’re not going to use a piece of plywood on the back, even though it faces the wall and nobody will ever see it. You’ll know it’s there, so you’re going to use a beautiful piece of wood on the back. For you to sleep well at night, the aesthetic, the quality, has to be carried all the way through.
— Steve Jobs

You can’t connect the dots looking forward;
you can only connect them looking backwards.
So you have to trust that the dots will somehow connect in your future.
You have to trust in something – your gut, destiny, life, karma, whatever.
This approach has never let me down, and it has made all the difference in my life.
— Steve Jobs