Steve Jobs Quotes
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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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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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The day I was born songs were on records, phones were tied down, computers needed rooms and the web was fiction. Change the world. You can.
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Design is not just what it looks like and feels like. Design is how it works.
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That's what makes great products. It's not process-it's content.
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Every good product I've ever seen is because a group of people cared deeply about making something wonderful that they and their friends wanted. They wanted to use it themselves.
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People say sometimes, "You work in the fastest-moving industry in the world." I don't feel that way. I think I work in one of the slowest. It seems to take forever to get anything done.
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When we hire someone, even if they are going to be in marketing, I will have them talk to the design folks and the engineers.
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The things I've done in my life have required a lot of years of work before they took off.
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We had nothing to lose and everything to gain.
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We have never worried about numbers. In the marketplace, Apple is trying to focus the spotlight on products, because products really make a difference. You can't con people in this business. The products speak for themselves.
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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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There's a lot of symbolism to your return. Is that going to be enough to reinvigorate the company with a sense of magic?
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Focus is about saying, No. And the result of that focus is going to be some really great products where the total is much greater than the sum of the parts.
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Life can be much broader. You can embrace it, change it, improve it, make your mark upon it.
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If you are working on something exciting that you really care about, you don't have to be pushed. The vision pulls you.
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In your life you only get to do so many things and right now we've chosen to do this, so let's make it great.
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Great art stretches the taste, it doesn't follow tastes.
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Life is about creating and living experiences that are worth sharing.
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When we started off we didn't know how to spell software.
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Overnight success stories take a long time.
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I'd like the people teaching my kids to be good enough that they could get a job at the company I work for, making a hundred thousand dollars a year. Why should they work at a school for thirty-five to forty thousand dollars if they could get a job here at a hundred thousand dollars a year?
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It's the disease of thinking that a having a great idea is really 90% of the work. And if you just tell people, 'here's this great idea,' then of course they can go off and make it happen. The problem with that is that there's a tremendous amount of craftsmanship between a having a great idea and having a great product.
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I want to put a ding in the universe.