Steve Jobs Quotes

"If you want to live your life in a creative way, as an artist, you have to not look back too much. You have to be willing to take whatever you’ve done and whoever you were and throw them away."

"Deciding what not to do is as important as deciding what to do."

"You cannot look at the competition and say you're going to do it better. You have to look at the competition and say you're going to do it differently."

"Picasso had a saying -- 'good artists copy; great artists steal' -- and we have always been shameless about stealing great ideas."

"For you to sleep well at night, the aesthetic, the quality, has to be carried all the way through."

"Management is about persuading people to do things they do not want to do, while leadership is about inspiring people to do things they never thought they could."

"Intuition is a very powerful thing, more powerful than intellect, in my opinion."

"We're just enthusiastic about what we do."

"If you are working on something exciting that you really care about, you don't have to be pushed. The vision pulls you."

"True focus is not merely about choosing one path, but rather the discipline to reject a hundred other good ideas that might lead you astray."

"I don't care about being right. I care about success and doing the right thing."

"Details matter, it's worth waiting to get it right."

"You’ve got to find what you love."

"It's not a faith in technology. It's faith in people."

"Simple can be harder than complex: You have to work hard to get your thinking clean to make it simple. But it’s worth it in the end because once you get there, you can move mountains."

"I have had a happy life... I love my family."

"If you don't love it, you're going to fail."

"I think if you do something and it turns out pretty good, then you should go do something else wonderful, not dwell on it for too long. Just figure out what’s next."

"Great things in business are never done by one person. They're done by a team of people."

"Sometimes life hits you in the head with a brick. Don't lose faith."

"The only way to do great work is to be obsessed with what you do."

"Things don’t have to change the world to be important."

"Remembering that I'll be dead soon is the most important tool I've ever encountered to help me make the big choices in life."

"Technology is nothing. What's important is that you have a faith in people, that they're basically good and smart, and if you give them tools, they'll do wonderful things with them."

"I want to put a ding in the universe."

"Design is not just what it looks like and feels like. Design is how it works."

"I would trade all of my technology for an afternoon with Socrates."

"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."

"You need to have a lot of passion for what you're doing because it's so hard. If you don't, any rational person would give up."

"Hire the best people and get out of their way."

"Stay hungry, stay foolish."

"Innovation comes from saying no to 1,000 things to make sure we don't get on the wrong track or try to do too much."

"You can't connect the dots looking forward; you can only connect them looking backward. So you have to trust that the dots will somehow connect in your future."