Steve Jobs Quotes
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We have always been shameless about stealing great ideas.
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The desktop computer industry is dead. Innovation has virtually ceased. Microsoft dominates with very little innovation. That's over. Apple lost. The desktop market has entered the dark ages, and it's going to be in the dark ages for the next 10 years, or certainly for the rest of this decade.
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In the first 30 years of your life, you make your habits. For the last 30 years of your life, your habits make you.
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It comes from saying no to 1,000 things to make sure we don't get on the wrong track or try to do too much.
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When companies get bigger they try to replicate their success. But they assume their magic came from process. They try to use processes to substitute content.
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You can tell a lot about a person by who his or her heroes are.
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We live in an information economy. The problem is that information's usually impossible to get, at least in the right place, at the right time.
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The minute I dropped out I could stop taking the required classes that didn't interest me, and begin dropping in on the ones that looked interesting.
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Kick-start your brain. New ideas come from watching something, talking to people, experimenting, asking questions and getting out of the office!
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We're just enthusiastic about what we do.
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When you have feelings like sadness or anger about your cancer or your plight, to mask them is to lead an artificial life.
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And no, we don't know where it will lead. We just know there's something much bigger than any of us here.
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I don't think of my life as a career. I do stuff. I respond to stuff. That's not a career - it's a life! Steve Jobs
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What had been the focus of my entire adult life was gone, and it was devastating. I didn't really know what to do for a few months. I felt that I had let the previous generation of entrepreneurs down. I was a very public failure.
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I think Pixar has the opportunity to be the next Disney - not replace Disney - but be the next Disney.
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A brand is simply trust.
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Companies, as they grow to become multi-billion-dollar entities, somehow lose their vision. They insert lots of layers of middle management between the people running the company and the people doing the work. They no longer have an inherent feel or a passion about the products. The creative people, who are the ones who care passionately, have to persuade five layers of management to do what they know is the right thing to do.
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The over-all point is that new technology will not necessarily replace old technology, but it will date it. By definition. Eventually, it will replace it. But it's like people who had black-and-white TVs when color came out. They eventually decided whether or not the new technology was worth the investment.
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It is hard to think that a $2 billion company with 4,300-plus people couldn't compete with six people in blue jeans.
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The subscription model of buying music is bankrupt. I think you could make available the Second Coming in a subscription model and it might not be successful.
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I don't mind if people don't like me. Well, I might a little ... but I really mind it when somebody uses their position at Time magazine to tell 10 million people they don't like me. I know what it's like to have your private life painted in the worst possible light in front of a lot of people.
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You cannot mandate productivity, you must provide the tools to let people become their best.
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Sometimes when you innovate, you make mistakes. It is best to admit them quickly, and get on with improving your other innovations.
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I think it's brought the world a lot closer together, and will continue to do that. 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.