18 Steve Jobs Quotes – You Must Read

Steve Jobs Quotes – Inspirational, Enthusiastic and Possess the Sense of Joy & Depth of Experience

 
1. I wish developing great products was as easy as signing a check. If that was the case, Microsoft would have great products.
2. It’s rare that you see an artist in his 30s or 40s able to really contribute something amazing.
3. Apple Computer – Real Artists Ship.
4. Why Join the Navy. If You Can be a Pirate?
5. I’m convinced that about half of what separates the successful entrepreneurs from the non-successful ones is pure perseverance (persistent determination). It is so hard.
6. Your time is limited, so don’t waste it living someone else’s life.
7. If you want it, you can fly, you just have to trust you a lot.
8. Sometimes when you innovate, you make mistakes. It is best to admit them quickly, and get on with improving your other innovations.
9. You have got to start with the customer experience and work back toward the technology – not the other way around.
10. Sometimes life hits you in the head with a brick. Don’t lose faith.
11. I was worth about over a million dollars when I was twenty-three and over ten million dollars when I was twenty-four, and over a hundred million dollars when I was twenty-five and it wasn’t that important because I never did it for the money.
12. We have always been shameless about stealing great ideas.
13. You can’t just ask customers what they want and then try to give that to them. By the time you get it built, they’ll want something new.
14. 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 are led, and how much you get it.
15. I’ve always wanted to own and control the primary technology in everything we do.
16. Stay Hungry. Stay Foolish.
17. 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.
18. If you live each day as if it was your last, someday you’ll most certainly be right.
 
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