10 Greatest Quotes from Steve Jobs





10 Greatest Quotes to live by from the man behind iPad, iPhone and iPod Steve Jobs.

  • I was worth $1,000,000 when I was 23, and over $10,000,000 when I was 24, and $100,000,000 when I was 25, and it wasn’t that important because I never did it for the money.
  • Remembering that you are going to die is the best I know to avoid the trap of thinking you have something to lose. You are already naked. There is no reason not to follow your heart.
  • Design is not just what it looks like and feels like. Design is how it works.
  • I am the only person I know that’s lost a quarter of a billion dollars in one year. It’s very character-building.
  • Design is the fundamental soul of a human-made creation that ends up expressing itself in successive outer layers of the product or service.
  • Be a yardstick of quality. Some people are not used to an environment where excellence is expected.
  • You can’t just ask customers what they want and then try to give that to them. By the time you get it build, they’ll want something new.
  • Innovation distinguishes between a leader and a follower.
  • It 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.
  • Here’s to the crazy ones, the misfits, the rebels, the troublemakers, the round pegs in the square holes…the ones who see things differently – they’re not fond of rules. You can quote them, disagree with them, glorify or vilify them, but the only you can’t do is to ignore them because they change things. They push the human race forward, and while some may see them as the crazy ones, we see genius, because the ones who are crazy enough to think that they can change the world are the ones who do.



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  1. BON Aug 27, 2011