Steve Jobs Quotes
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The real art is knowing what to leave out, not what to put in.
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Apple stores are intended not just to move boxes, but to enrich lives.
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There are times when you run a marathon and you wonder, Why am I doing this? But you take a drink of water, and around the next bend, you get your wind back, remember the finish line, and keep going.
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As Regis Mckenna once said, the best marketing is education...
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We've got to make the small things unforgettable.
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The minute that you understand that you can poke life and actually something will pop out the other side, that you can change it, you can mold it. That's maybe the most important thing. It's to shake off this erroneous notion that life is there and you're just gonna live in it, versus embrace it, change it, improve it, make your mark upon it. I think that's very important and however you learn that, once you learn it, you'll want to change life and make it better, cause it's kind of messed up, in a lot of ways. Once you learn that, you'll never be the same again.
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You can tell a lot about a person by who his or her heroes are.
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If a user is having a problem, it's our problem.
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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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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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Manage the top line: your strategy, your people, and your products, and the bottom line will follow.
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We had the hardware expertise, the industrial design expertise and the software expertise, including iTunes. One of the biggest insights we have was that we decided not to try to manage your music library on the iPod, but to manage it in iTunes. Other companies tried to do everything on the device itself and made it so complicated that it was useless.
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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 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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I hate the way people use slide presentations instead of thinking. People would confront a problem by creating a presentation. I wanted them to engage, to hash things out at the table, rather than show a bunch of slides. People who know what they're talking about don't need PowerPoint.
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If Macintosh hadn't been successful, then I should have just thrown in the towel, because my vision of the whole industry would have been totally wrong.
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Each dream you leave behind is a part of your future that will no longer exist.
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As individuals, people are inherently good. I have a somewhat more pessimistic view of people in groups. And I remain extremely concerned when I see what's happening in our country, which is in many ways the luckiest place in the world. We don't seem to be excited about making our country a better place for our kids.
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Intuition is a very powerful thing, more powerful than intellect.
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My favorite things in life don't cost any money. It's really clear that the most precious resource we all have is time.
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I'm going to destroy Android, because it's a stolen product. I'm willing to go thermonuclear war on this.
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You're missing it. This is not a one-man show. What's reinvigorating this company is two things: One, there's a lot of really talented people in this company who listened to the world tell them they were losers for a couple of years, and some of them were on the verge of starting to believe it themselves. But they're not losers. What they didn't have was a good set of coaches, a good plan. A good senior management team. But they have that now.
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Because believing that the dots will connect down the road will give you the confidence to follow your heart even when it leads you off the well worn path.
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So let's not use a stylus. We're going to use the best pointing device in the world. We're going to use a pointing device that we're all born with - born with ten of them. We're going to use our fingers. We're going to touch this with our fingers. And we have invented a new technology called multi-touch, which is phenomenal. It works like magic.