Top 400 Steve Jobs Quotes (2023 Update)

1. “Stay hungry. Stay foolish.”

— Steve Jobs

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

— Steve Jobs

3. “Think Different.”

— Steve Jobs

4. “Your time is limited, so don’t waste it living someone else’s life.”

— Steve Jobs

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5. “Focusing is about saying No.”

— Steve Jobs

6. “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.”

— Steve Jobs

7. “Innovation is the only way to win.”

— Steve Jobs

8. “The journey is the reward.”

— Steve Jobs

9. “Don’t let the noise of others’ opinions drown out your own inner voice.”

— Steve Jobs

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10. “Why join the navy if you can be a pirate?”

— Steve Jobs

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11. “Deciding what not to do is as important as deciding what to do.”

— Steve Jobs

12. “Let’s go invent tomorrow instead of worrying about what happened yesterday.”

— Steve Jobs

13. “Creativity is just connecting things.”

— Steve Jobs

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14. “Follow your heart and your intuition. They somehow already know what you truly want to become. Everything else is secondary.”

— Steve Jobs

15. “Design is not just what it looks like and feels like. Design is how it works.”

— Steve Jobs

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16. “If you live each day as it was your last, someday you'll most certainly be right.”

— Steve Jobs

17. “Sometimes life’s going to hit you in the head with a brick. Don’t lose faith. I’m convinced that the only thing that kept me going was that I loved what I did.”

— Steve Jobs

18. “Details matter, it’s worth waiting to get it right.”

— Steve Jobs

19. “Have the courage to follow your heart and intuition. They somehow already know what you truly want to become. Everything else is secondary.”

— Steve Jobs

20. “You have to be burning with an idea, or a problem, or a wrong that you want to right. If you’re not passionate enough from the start, you’ll never stick it out.”

— Steve Jobs

21. “Learn continually. There’s always “one more thing” to learn.”

— Steve Jobs

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22. “A lot of times, people don’t know what they want until you show it to them.”

— Steve Jobs

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23. “Real artists ship.”

— Steve Jobs

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24. “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

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25. “Never settle for average.”

— Steve Jobs

26. “If you haven't found it yet, keep looking. Don't settle. As with all matters of the heart, you'll know when you find it. And, like any great relationship, it just gets better and better as the years roll on.”

— Steve Jobs

27. “To go forward you have to leave something behind.”

— Steve Jobs

28. “Be a yardstick of quality. Some people aren’t used to an environment where excellence is expected.”

— Steve Jobs

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29. “Things don’t have to change the world to be important.”

— Steve Jobs

30. “My job is not to be easy on people. My job is to take these great people we have and to push them and make them even better.”

— Steve Jobs

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31. “Innovation is not about saying yes to everything. It’s about saying no to all but the most crucial features.”

— Steve Jobs

32. “Again, you can’t connect the dots looking forward; you can only connect them looking backwards. So you have to trust that the dots will somehow connect in your future. 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.”

— Steve Jobs

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33. “Innovation is the ability to see change as an opportunity – not a threat.”

— Steve Jobs

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34. “It doesn’t make sense to hire smart people and tell them what to do; we hire smart people so they can tell us what to do.”

— Steve Jobs

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35. “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

36. “What we are doing here is going to send a giant ripple through the universe.”

— Steve Jobs

37. “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. But it’s worth it in the end because once you get there, you can move mountains.”

— Steve Jobs

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38. “If you don’t have a passion, you’ll give up.”

— Steve Jobs

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39. “Have the courage to follow your heart and intuition.”

— Steve Jobs

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40. “Start small, think big. Don’t worry about too many things at once. Take a handful of simple things to begin with, and then progress to more complex ones. Think about not just tomorrow, but the future. Put a ding in the universe.”

— Steve Jobs

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41. “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.”

— Steve Jobs

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42. “I’ve been rejected, but I am still in love.”

— Steve Jobs

43. “I’m convinced that about half of what separates the successful entrepreneurs from the non-successful ones is pure perseverance.”

— Steve Jobs

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44. “Each dream you leave behind is a part of your future that will no longer exist.”

— Steve Jobs

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45. “A brand is simply trust.”

— Steve Jobs

46. “Everything around you that you call life was made up by people that were no smarter than you and you can change it, you can influence it, you can build your own things that other people can use.”

— Steve Jobs

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47. “You’ve got to find what you love.”

— Steve Jobs

48. “Whatever you do, you must never let the voice in your head control the brain in your heart.”

— Steve Jobs

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49. “Do your best at every job. Don’t sleep! Success generates more success so be hungry for it. Hire good people with a passion for excellence.”

— Steve Jobs

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50. “The heaviness of being successful was replaced by the lightness of being a beginner again.”

— Steve Jobs