Steve Jobs Quotes

Deciding what not to do is as important as deciding what to do.

Steve Jobs

• What to do
• What not to do

• Previous
• Next

Quotes to Explore

• My mum was a child minder, but now she fosters. My dad was in the police force, and now he's a private detective.

  

  Finn Jones
  • She
  • Dad
  • Child

• A very quiet and tasteful way to be famous is to have a famous relative. Then you can not only be nothing, you can do nothing too.

  

  P. J. O'Rourke
  • You
  • Famous
  • Quiet

• I have dangerous bones in my body.

  

  Vin Diesel
  • Body
  • Dangerous
  • Bones

• Maybe I'm just a slow learner or something, but I like to have things laid out as plainly and simply as possible.

  

  Walter Cronkite
  • Things
  • Possible
  • Slow

• Only a cheap politician, greedy for political gain, would try to single out one individual for blame. The fault lies not with the individual but with the system, and that system is Richard Nixon.

  

  Pat Paulsen
  • Political
  • Single
  • Lies

• I'm very passionate.

  

  Abbie Cornish
  • Very
  • Passionate

• When kids my age were picking up toy cars, I used to buy toy guns.

  

  Gagan Narang
  • Up
  • Kids
  • Age

• I am a midfielder who is mainly involved in the defensive phases, even if I also like to help build moves - I would say that my foremost quality is my generosity.

  

  Yaya Toure
  • Quality
  • Generosity
  • Defensive

• All mortals tend to turn into the thing they are pretending to be.

  

  C. S. Lewis

• I feel awed by the mystery of being both so finite and yet so infinite, so much and so little, so conscious and yet, so coincidental.

  

  Warren Farrell

• At the end of the day, if you are in Aljunied, ask yourself: Do you want one MP, one Non-Constituency MP, one celebrity who has been away 30 years, and two unknowns to look after you? Or would you prefer me and my hand-picked colleagues?

  

  Lee Kuan Yew
  • Hand
  • Celebrity

• Enlightened statesmen will not always be at the helm.

  

  James Madison

• If we assume that there are normal or standard income results to be obtained from investing money in securities, then the role of the adviser can be more readily established. He will use his superior training and experience to protect his clients against mistakes and to make sure that they obtain the results to which their money is entitled.

  

  Benjamin Graham
  • Money
  • Experience
  • Training

• My dream when I was 14 was someday I could have a David Levine caricature of me in 'The New York Review of Books.'

  

  Chris Hayes
  • Dream

• Literature is love. I think it went like this: drawings in the cave, sounds in the cave, songs in the cave, songs about us. Later, stories about us.

  

  Eileen Myles
  • Literature

• When I first started producing, all I had was this little crappy sampler called a S20, which had, like, a minute sample time. I was making crappy beats since I was, like, 17 or 18, using Florida rappers, where I'm from. Then I started DJ'ing because I just wanted to have a new job. I was a schoolteacher for a while, and it was the worst job.

  

  Diplo
  • Time
  • Job

• Auction houses run a rigged game. They know exactly how many people will be bidding on a work and exactly who they are. In a gallery, works of art need only one person who wants to pay for them.

  

  Jerry Saltz
  • People
  • Work
  • Art

• There are far too many politicians out there who take the wrong position and stick with it and never admit that they should do something different.

  

  Cory Gardner
  • Different

• Let every man and woman count himself immortal. Let him catch the revelation of Jesus in his resurrection. Let him say not merely, 'Christ is risen,' but 'I shall rise.'

  

  Phillips Brooks
  • Jesus

• I am not Jewish, but I think that America invented nothing so fine as deli food.

  

  Mike Newell
  • America
  • Nothing
  • Jewish

• I'm a natural blonde, but I feel like a brunette. I feel like people treat me now how I should be treated. People used to be shocked, when I was blond, that I wasn't stupid.

  

  Olivia Wilde
  • People
  • Stupid
  • Treat

• I guess it's the fear of failure and not knowing how the films are going to do that just drives us to work really hard to make them the best they can possibly be.

  

  Lee Unkrich
  • Work
  • Fear
  • Failure

• Before I realized what was happening, everything blew up. I made 'Animals' when I was in high school, and literally, from that moment, I've been living a different life. I've been touring a lot, traveling a lot, doing great shows. I've been in the studio with my biggest idols.

  

  Martin Garrix Area21
  • Life
  • Up
  • Great

• Deciding what not to do is as important as deciding what to do.

  

  Steve Jobs
  • What to do
  • What not to do