Steve Jobs on Confidence Quotes

"Don't let the noise of others' opinions drown out your own inner voice."

"If you really look closely, most overnight successes took a long time."

"It takes a lot of hard work to make something simple, to truly understand the underlying challenges and come up with elegant solutions."

"And most importantly, have the courage to follow your heart and intuition. They somehow already know what you truly want to become."

"Innovation distinguishes between a leader and a follower."

"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."

"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."

"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."

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

"We’re here to put a dent in the universe. Otherwise why else even be here?"

"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."

"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."

"My favorite things in life don't cost any money. It's really clear that the most precious resource we all have is time."

"Innovation is the only way to win."

"I'm convinced that about half of what separates successful entrepreneurs from the non-successful ones is pure perseverance."

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

"Computers themselves, and software yet to be developed, will revolutionize the way we learn."

"Sometimes when you innovate, you make mistakes. It is best to admit them quickly, and get on with improving your other innovations."

"Stay hungry, stay foolish."

"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."

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

"I've always been attracted to the more revolutionary changes. I don't know why. Because they're harder. They're much more stressful emotionally."

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

"The people who are crazy enough to think they can change the world are the ones who do."

"We don't get a chance to do that many things, and everyone should be really excellent. Because this is our life."

"Quality is more important than quantity. One home run is much better than two doubles."

"Being the richest man in the cemetery doesn't matter to me. Going to bed at night saying we've done something wonderful, that's what matters to me."

"Your time is limited, so don't waste it living someone else's life. Don't be trapped by dogma—which is living with the results of other people's thinking."

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

"If you don't love it, you're going to give up. And that's what happens to most people, actually."

"I'm as proud of many of the things we haven't done as the things we have done. Innovation is saying no to a thousand things."

"Be a yardstick of quality. Some people aren't used to an environment where excellence is expected."