Steve Jobs Quotes
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You have to have a lot of passion for what you do... because if you don't, any rational person would give up.
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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.
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It's not like Windows users don't have any power. I think they are happy with Windows, and that's an incredibly depressing thought...
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Everything is important- that success is in the details.
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The real art is knowing what to leave out, not what to put in.
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Be ready to catch the ball when it is thrown by life.
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I've got to tell you, the Internet is a place you go when you want to turn your brain on, and television is a place you go when you want to turn your brain off. I'm not at all convinced that the twain will meet.
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The thing that drives me and my colleagues at both Apple and Pixar is that you see something very compelling to you, and you don't quite know how to get to it, but you know, sometimes intuitively, it's within your grasp. And it's worth putting in years of your life to make it come into existence.
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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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You know, my main reaction to this money thing is that it's humorous, all the attention to it, because it's hardly the most insightful or valuable thing that's happened to me.
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You cannot mandate productivity, you must provide the tools to let people become their best.
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We try to use the talents we do have to express our deep feelings, to show our appreciation of all the contributions that came before us, and to add something to that flow. That's what's driven me.
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Do you create anything, or just criticize others work and belittle their motivations?
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I was in the parking lot, with the key in the car, and I thought to myself: If this is my last night on earth, would I rather spend it at a business meeting or with this woman? I ran across the parking lot, asked her if she'd have dinner with me. She said yes, we walked into town, and we've been together ever since.
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Each dream you leave behind is a part of your future that will no longer exist.
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I think this is the start of something really big. Sometimes that first step is the hardest one, and we've just taken it.
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We've got to make the small things unforgettable.
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We have always been shameless about stealing great ideas.
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Stealing music is not right, and I can understand people being very upset about their intellectual property being stolen.
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I am saddened, not by Microsoft's success — I have no problem with their success. They've earned their success, for the most part. I have a problem with the fact that they just make really third-rate products.
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Our approach is to think of companies not as businesses but as collections of people. We Apple want to qualitatively change the way people work. We don't just want to help them do word processing faster or add numbers faster. We want to change the way they can communicate with one another. We're seeing less paper flying around and more quality of communication.
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Whatever you do, you must never let the voice in your head control the brain in your heart.
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Most people do not ever pick up the phone. They never ask, and that is what separates the people that do things from the people that just dream about them. You have to act, and you have to be willing to fail. You have to be willing to crash and burn, because if you are afraid of failing, you will not get very far.
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People think focus means saying yes to the thing you've got to focus on. But that's not what it means at all. It means saying no to the hundred other good ideas that there are. You have to pick carefully. 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.