Steve Jobs Quotes
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Woz is living his own life now. He hasn't been around Apple for about five years. But what he did will go down in history.
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Much of what I stumbled into by following my curiosity and intuition turned out to be priceless later on.
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People need to have the incentive that if they invest and succeed, they can make a fair profit. Otherwise they'll stop investing.
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We think the Mac will sell zillions, but we didn't build the Mac for anybody else. We built it for ourselves. We were the group of people who were going to judge whether it was great or not. We weren't going to go out and do market research. We just wanted to build the best thing we could build.
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We're just enthusiastic about what we do.
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To me, ideas are worth nothing unless executed. They are just a multiplier. Execution is worth millions.
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I admire Mark Zuckerberg... for not selling out, for wanting to make a company. I admire that a lot.
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You have to be burning with "an idea, or a problem, or a wrong that you want to right." If you're not passionate enough from the start, you'll never stick it out.
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The most compelling reason for most people to buy a computer for the home will be to link it to a nationwide communications network. We're just in the beginning stages of what will be a truly remarkable breakthrough for most people - as remarkable as the telephone.
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You cannot mandate productivity, you must provide the tools to let people become their best.
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Apple stores are intended not just to move boxes, but to enrich lives.
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If it could save a person's life, could you find a way to save ten seconds off the boot time? If there were five million people using the Mac, and it took ten seconds extra to turn it on every day, that added up to three hundred million or so hours per year people would save, which was the equivalent of at least one hundred lifetimes saved per year.
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Do you create anything, or just criticize others work and belittle their motivations?
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Each dream you leave behind is a part of your future that will no longer exist.
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Manage the top line: your strategy, your people, and your products, and the bottom line will follow.
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We wanted to more richly experience why we were alive, not just make a better life, and so people went in search of things. The great thing that came from those that time was to realize that there was definitely more to life than the materialism of the late sixties and early sixties. We were going in search of something deeper.
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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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You've got to find what you love. And that is as true for your work as it is for your lovers.
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I think the artistry is in having an insight into what one sees around them. Generally putting things together in a way no one else has before and finding a way to express that to other people who don't have that insight.
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I have enough to last for the rest of my life.
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Don't be evil is a load of crap.
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It's very simple: The more successful you are, the more you'll earn. But if you're not successful, you will not earn a dime.
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Don't just live a life; build one.
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You know we're constantly taking. We don't make most of the food we eat, we don't grow it, anyway. We wear clothes other people make, we speak a language other people developed, we use a mathematics other people evolved and spent their lives building. I mean we're constantly taking things. It's a wonderful ecstatic feeling to create something and put it into the pool of human experience and knowledge.