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37+ Quotes by Steve Jobs

A curated collection of 37 inspirational quotes by Steve Jobs on life, wisdom, and the human experience.

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Featured Quote
"Have the courage to follow your heart and intuition."
— Steve Jobs
All Quotes by Steve Jobs
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"Have the courage to follow your heart and intuition."
Fearless
3 "Have the courage to follow your heart and intuition."
Intuition
4 "The only way to do great work is to love what you do."
Motivation
5 "The only way to do great work is to love what you do."
Meaningful
6 "The only way to do great work is to love what you do."
Daily
7 "It's not a faith in technology. It's faith in people."
Faith
8 "The only way to do great work is to love what you do."
Passion
9 "Things don't have to change the world to be important."
Change
10 "Innovation distinguishes between a leader and a follower."
Leadership Quotes
11 "Your time is limited, do not waste it living someone else's life."
Life
12 "Your time is limited, do not waste it living someone else's life."
Unity
13 "Sometimes life hits you in the head with a brick. Don't lose faith."
Faith
14 "If you really look closely, most overnight successes took a long time."
Success
15 "If you really look closely, most overnight successes took a long time."
Achievement
16 "If you really look closely, most overnight successes took a long time."
Winning
17 "If you really look closely, most overnight successes took a long time."
Authenticity
18 "Be a yardstick of quality. Some people aren't used to an environment where excellence is expected."
Leadership Quotes
19 "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."
Faith
20 "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."
Curiosity
21 "It's not the tools that you have faith in - tools are just tools. They work, or they don't work. It's people you have faith in or not. Yeah, sure, I'm still optimistic I mean, I get pessimistic sometimes but not for long."
Faith
22 "It's not the tools that you have faith in - tools are just tools. They work, or they don't work. It's people you have faith in or not. Yeah, sure, I'm still optimistic I mean, I get pessimistic sometimes but not for long."
Positive Thinking
23 "We want to reinvent the phone. What's the killer app? The killer app is making calls! It's amazing how hard it is to make calls on most phones. We want to let you use contacts like never before - sync your iPhone with your PC or mac."
Positivity Quotes
24 "I'll always stay connected with Apple. I hope that throughout my life I'll sort of have the thread of my life and the thread of Apple weave in and out of each other, like a tapestry. There may be a few years when I'm not there, but I'll always come back."
Hope
25 "The most compelling reason for most people to buy a computer for the home will be to link it to a nationwide communications network. We're just in the beginning stages of what will be a truly remarkable breakthrough for most people - as remarkable as the telephone."
Home Quotes
26 "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."
Change
27 "Our DNA is as a consumer company - for that individual customer who's voting thumbs up or thumbs down. That's who we think about. And we think that our job is to take responsibility for the complete user experience. And if it's not up to par, it's our fault, plain and simply."
Wisdom
28 "Our DNA is as a consumer company - for that individual customer who's voting thumbs up or thumbs down. That's who we think about. And we think that our job is to take responsibility for the complete user experience. And if it's not up to par, it's our fault, plain and simply."
Responsibility
29 "A lot of people in our industry haven't had very diverse experiences. So they don't have enough dots to connect, and they end up with very linear solutions without a broad perspective on the problem. The broader one's understanding of the human experience, the better design we will have."
Wisdom
30 "A lot of people in our industry haven't had very diverse experiences. So they don't have enough dots to connect, and they end up with very linear solutions without a broad perspective on the problem. The broader one's understanding of the human experience, the better design we will have."
Mindset
31 "A lot of people in our industry haven't had very diverse experiences. So they don't have enough dots to connect, and they end up with very linear solutions without a broad perspective on the problem. The broader one's understanding of the human experience, the better design we will have."
Clarity
32 "Microsoft has had two goals in the last 10 years. One was to copy the Mac, and the other was to copy Lotus' success in the spreadsheet - basically, the applications business. And over the course of the last 10 years, Microsoft accomplished both of those goals. And now they are completely lost."
Success
33 "I don't think I've ever worked so hard on something, but working on Macintosh was the neatest experience of my life. Almost everyone who worked on it will say that. None of us wanted to release it at the end. It was as though we knew that once it was out of our hands, it wouldn't be ours anymore."
Wisdom
34 "I don't think I've ever worked so hard on something, but working on Macintosh was the neatest experience of my life. Almost everyone who worked on it will say that. None of us wanted to release it at the end. It was as though we knew that once it was out of our hands, it wouldn't be ours anymore."
Letting Go
35 "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. Don't let the noise of others' opinions drown out your own inner voice. And most important, have the courage to follow your heart and intuition."
Strength
36 "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. Don't let the noise of others' opinions drown out your own inner voice. And most important, have the courage to follow your heart and intuition."
Fearless
37 "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. Don't let the noise of others' opinions drown out your own inner voice. And most important, have the courage to follow your heart and intuition."
Intuition

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