Steve Jobs Quotes
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You've got to find what you love.
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Your time on this earth is limited, don’t live someone else's life, live by your vision.
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It's not the tools that you have faith in - tools are just tools. They work, or they don't work. It's people you have faith in or not. Yeah, sure, I'm still optimistic I mean, I get pessimistic sometimes but not for long.
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Great engineers are a huge multiplier.
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All the work I've done in my life will be obsolete by the time I'm fifty.
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One: demonstrations always crash. And two: the probability of them crashing goes up exponentially with the number of people watching.
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For most of my life, I’ve felt that there must be more to our existence than meets the eye. This is who I am, and you can’t expect me to be someone I’m not.
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Computers themselves, and software yet to be developed, will revolutionize the way we learn.
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The manual for WordStar, the most popular word-processing program, is 400 pages thick. To write a novel, you have to read a novel - one that reads like a mystery to most people. They're not going to learn slash q-z any more than they're going to learn Morse code. That is what Macintosh is all about.
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It's more fun to be a pirate than to join the navy. On the importance of loving what you do.
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Now, we are selling over 5 million songs a day now. Isn't that unbelievable? That's 58 songs every second of every minute of every hour of every day.
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Creativity is just connecting things. When you ask creative people how they did something, they feel a little guilty because they didn't really do it, they just saw something. It seemed obvious to them after a while. That's because they were able to connect experiences they've had and synthesize new things.
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A lot of companies have chosen to downsize, and maybe that was the right thing for them. We chose a different path. Our belief was that if we kept putting great products in front of customers, they would continue to open their wallets.
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To follow the path that others have laid before you is a reasonable course of action; therefore all progress is made by unreasonable men.
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I think we're having fun. I think our customers really like our products. And we're always trying to do better.
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I was lucky – I found what I love to do early in life.
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What this means is that people are seeing a stable business, which is good, and a business that is in control, which is also good.
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You have to trust that the dots will somehow connect in your future... The only way to do great work is to love what you do. If you haven’t found it yet, keep looking. Don’t settle. As with all matters of the heart, you’ll know when you find it... Have the courage to follow your heart and intuition. They somehow already know what you truly want to become. Everything else is secondary.
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It's hard to tell with these Internet startups if they're really interested in building companies or if they're just interested in the money. I can tell you, though: If they don't really want to build a company, they won't luck into it. That's because it's so hard that if you don't have a passion, you'll give up.
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We all have a short period of time on this earth-We probably only have the opportunity to do a few things really great and do them well. None of us has any idea how long we're going to be here nor do I, but my feeling is I've got to accomplish a lot of these things while I'm young.
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My passion has been to build an enduring company where people were motivated to make great products. Everything else was secondary. Sure, it was great to make a profit, because that was what allowed you to make great products. But the products, not the profits were the motivation.
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To have your whole music library with you at all times is a quantum leap in listening to music. How do we possibly do this?
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If you don't cannibalize yourself, someone else will.
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We had nothing to lose and everything to gain.