Steve Jobs Quotes

Everything is based on a simple rule: Quality is the best business plan, period.

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• All wars, even the noblest, bring a reckoning of means and ends.

  

  Nancy Gibbs
  • Ends
  • Bring
  • Reckoning

• While Romney has an overall deficit with women voters, his biggest disadvantage is with college educated women - wherever they work, at home, in an office, a store or a factory.

  

  Mara Liasson
  • Work
  • Women
  • Home

• Remember that children, marriages, and flower gardens reflect the kind of care they get.

  

  H. Jackson Brown, Jr.
  • Children
  • Remember
  • Flower

• I really am a woman at peace.

  

  Laura Schlessinger
  • Peace
  • Woman
  • Really

• I think it's always a good idea to dress as someone you like, as long as it's done in good taste. That's the key.

  

  Uzo Aduba
  • Good
  • Long
  • Done

• I think I learned about the relationship between books and life from Margaret Mitchell.

  

  Pat Conroy
  • Life
  • Think
  • Relationship

• But I suppose film is distinctive because of its nature, of its being able to cut through time with editing.

  

  Oliver Stone
  • Time
  • Nature
  • Editing

• I know one writer who has been subscribing authors without their permission and sending out what she thinks are helpful advice sheets, but they come off as if she's a know-it-all. She thinks she's marketing herself and her work. All she's really doing is turning readers off.

  

  M. J. Rose
  • Work
  • She
  • Advice

• The heart of the gameplay is still about choice and consequence, which is what I've been doing since the '80s.

  

  Warren Spector
  • Heart
  • Doing
  • Choice

• If you have the support of people with a heart and a brain, then you're good.

  

  Vanessa Paradis
  • People
  • Good
  • Heart

• Fortunately, I was still living in Los Angeles at the time. So I went out to World Gym and got a membership.

  

  Warren Cuccurullo Duran Duran
  • Time
  • World
  • Gym

• Usually I write the songs at home and then I bring them in to the band; when we play them as a band, that's kinda how we figure out the feel of how they're going to be presented on the record or live.

  

  Britt Daniel
  • Live
  • Home
  • Band

• For a developing country, average long-run growth of 5 percent a year per capita is excellent, and 7 percent is stellar.

  

  Alex Berenson
  • Long
  • Country
  • Growth

• Watch out for the fellow who talks about putting things in order! Putting things in order always means getting other people under your control.

  

  Denis Diderot
  • People
  • Control

• One of my all-time favorite photographers is Irving Penn. I wish I could have watched him work.

  

  Mary Ellen Mark
  • Time
  • Work
  • Wish

• I think I'm pretty coachable. I do what coaches ask of me.

  

  Kenyon Martin
  • Pretty

• I really like singing. I believe that if I wasn't a good singer, I would have been tossed out of school.

  

  Lukas Forchhammer Lukas Graham
  • Good
  • Believe
  • School

• The villain drives the plot.

  

  Gayle Lynds

• With my own material, I like maintaining lyric integrity. I like having sophisticated lyrics, and maybe that's not down-the-middle Top 40 pop, but it reflects my style, my life, the way I speak, and the way I tell what's happening with my life emotionally, so in that way, it's authentic to me.

  

  Chelsea Lankes
  • Life
  • Style
  • Integrity

• My body, my clothes, and my makeup are on purpose, just as I am on purpose.

  

  Janet Mock
  • Purpose
  • Makeup

• Feature-length film comedy is harder to pull off than the episodic sitcom - it doesn't have the same factory machinery up and running, teams of writers putting familiar characters through permutations - but that doesn't explain the widening quality gap that makes movie humor look like a genetic defective.

  

  James Wolcott
  • Up
  • Movie
  • Running

• The more deeply connected you are with the people that you're working with, the better the work and the character, and then, I think, that really translates to life. It will help you in life to be more grounded and genuine.

  

  Cameron Mathison
  • People
  • Life
  • Work

• Make sure your bathroom is clean. If you're having a girl over the house for the first time, make sure your toilet is clean, not disgusting. Guys' bathrooms are always the most disgusting thing.

  

  Carly Aquilino
  • Guys
  • Disgusting
  • Bathrooms

• Everything is based on a simple rule: Quality is the best business plan, period.

  

  Steve Jobs
  • Quality
  • Rule
  • Business Plan