Steve Jobs Quotes

Steve Jobs Quotes

"If you keep your eye on the profit, you're going to skimp on the product. But if you focus on making really great products, then the profits will follow." – Steve Jobs

"Deciding what not to do is as important as deciding what to do. That's true for companies and it's true for products." – Steve Jobs

 "Stay hungry. Stay foolish." – Steve Jobs

It's really hard to design products by focus groups. A lot of times, people don't know what they want until you show it to them. – Steve Jobs 

That’s been one of my mantras — focus and simplicity. Simple can be harder than complex; you have to work hard to get your thinking clean to make it simple. – Steve Jobs 

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. – Steve Jobs 

Innovation comes from people meeting up in the hallways or calling each other at 10:30 at night with a new idea, or because they realized something that shoots holes in how we’ve been thinking about a problem. It's ad hoc meetings of six people called by someone who thinks he has figured out the coolest new thing ever and who wants to know what other people think of his idea. – Steve Jobs 

 

Getting fired from Apple was the best thing that could have ever happened to me. The heaviness of being successful was replaced by the lightness of being a beginner again. It freed me to enter one of the most creative periods of my life. – Steve Jobs

I want to put a ding in the universe. – Steve Jobs 

Innovation distinguishes between a leader and a follower. – Steve Jobs 

It's better to be a pirate than join the Navy. – Steve Jobs 

 When I was 17, I read a quote that went something like: 'If you live each day as if it was your last, someday you'll most certainly be right.' It made an impression on me, and since then, for the past 33 years, I have looked in the mirror every morning and asked myself: 'If today were the last day of my life, would I want to do what I am about to do today?' And whenever the answer has been 'no' for too many days in a row, I know I need to change something. – Steve Jobs

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