Top 400 Steve Jobs Quotes (2025 Update)
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151. “If you want it, you can fly, you just have to trust yourself a lot.”

— Steve Jobs

152. “Recruiting is hard. It’s just finding the needles in the haystack. You can’t know enough in a one-hour interview.”

— Steve Jobs

153. “No one wants to die. Even people who want to go to heaven don’t want to die to get there.”

— Steve Jobs

154. “I sat in a garage and invented the future.”

— Steve Jobs

155. “Let’s go invent tomorrow!”

— Steve Jobs

156. “Some mistakes will be made along the way. That’s good. Because some decisions are being made along the way. We’ll find the mistakes. We’ll fix them.”

— Steve Jobs

157. “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.”

— Steve Jobs

158. “There’s a phrase in Buddhism, ‘Beginner’s mind.’ It’s wonderful to have a beginner’s mind.”

— Steve Jobs

159. “Much of what I stumbled into by following my curiosity and intuition turned out to be priceless later on.”

— Steve Jobs

160. “You should never go to a meeting or make a telephone call without a clear idea of what you are trying to achieve.”

— Steve Jobs

161. “That’s been one of my mantras – focus and simplicity. Simple can be harder than complex.”

— Steve Jobs

162. “Strategy is figuring out what not to do.”

— Steve Jobs

163. “Computers are like a bicycle for our minds.”

— Steve Jobs

164. “Without passion, any rational person would give up!”

— Steve Jobs

165. “It’s not a faith in technology. It’s faith in people.”

— Steve Jobs

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

— Steve Jobs

167. “People don’t know what they want until you show it to them. That’s why I never rely on marketing research. Our task is to read things that are not yet on the page.”

— Steve Jobs

168. “Death is very likely the single best invention of life. It is life’s change agent. It clears out the old to make way for the new.”

— Steve Jobs

169. “We have always been shameless about stealing great ideas.”

— Steve Jobs

170. “I don’t really care about being right, I just care about success. I don’t mind being wrong, and I’ll admit that I’m wrong a lot. It doesn’t really matter to me too much. What matters to me is that we do the right thing.”

— Steve Jobs

171. “Your customers don’t care about you. They don’t care about your product or service. They care about themselves, their dreams, their goals. Now, they will care much more if you help them reach their goals, and to do that, you must understand their goals, as well as their needs and deepest desires.”

— Steve Jobs

172. “The real art is knowing what to leave out, not what to put in.”

— Steve Jobs

173. “We’ve got to make the small things unforgettable.”

— Steve Jobs

174. “We all have a short period of time on this earth-We probably only have the opportunity to do a few things really great and do them well. None of us has any idea how long we’re going to be here nor do I, but my feeling is I’ve got to accomplish a lot of these things while I’m young.”

— Steve Jobs

175. “Right now the new is you, but someday not too long from now, you will gradually become the old and be cleared away. Sorry to be so dramatic, but it is quite true.”

— Steve Jobs

176. “Creativity comes from spontaneous meetings, from random discussions.”

— Steve Jobs

177. “Design is a funny word. Some people think design means how it looks. But of course, if you dig deeper, it’s really how it works.”

— Steve Jobs

178. “We’re just enthusiastic about what we do.”

— Steve Jobs

179. “Fear of failure falls away in the face of death.”

— Steve Jobs

180. “I think this is the start of something really big. Sometimes that first step is the hardest one, and we’ve just taken it.”

— Steve Jobs

181. “Of course it was impossible to connect the dots looking forward when I was in college. But it was very, very clear looking backwards 10 years later.”

— Steve Jobs

182. “The broader one’s understanding of the human experience, the better design we will have.”

— Steve Jobs

183. “This is a very noisy world, so we have to be very clear what we want them to know about us.”

— Steve Jobs

184. “Focus is about saying, No. And the result of that focus is going to be some really great products where the total is much greater than the sum of the parts.”

— Steve Jobs

185. “Somewhere between the janitor and the CEO, reasons stop mattering.”

— Steve Jobs

186. “In your life you only get to do so many things and right now we’ve chosen to do this, so let’s make it great.”

— Steve Jobs

187. “The greatest artists like Dylan, Picasso and Newton risked failure. And if we want to be great, we’ve got to risk it too.”

— Steve Jobs

188. “Because believing that the dots will connect down the road will give you the confidence to follow your heart even when it leads you off the well worn path.”

— Steve Jobs

189. “Most people make the mistake of thinking design is what it looks like. People think it’s this veneer – that the designers are handed this box and told, “Make it look good!” That’s not what we think design is. It’s not just what it looks like and feels like. Design is how it works.”

— Steve Jobs

190. “If you want to hire great people and have them stay, you have to be run by ideas, not hierarchy. The best ideas have to win.”

— Steve Jobs

191. “This revolution, the information revolution, is a revolution of free energy as well, but of another kind: free intellectual energy.”

— Steve Jobs

192. “You are all over the map, figure out the top 5 things you want to focus on and get rid of the rest.”

— Steve Jobs

193. “Death is the destination we all share, no one has ever escaped it. And that is as it should be because death is very likely the single best invention of life.”

— Steve Jobs

194. “Combine science and humanities.”

— Steve Jobs

195. “Expose yourself to the best things humans have done and then try to bring those things into what you are doing.”

— Steve Jobs

196. “Everyone here has the sense that right now is one of those moments when we are influencing the future.”

— Steve Jobs

197. “There’s an old Wayne Gretzky quote that I love. ‘I skate to where the puck is going to be, not where it has been.’ And we’ve always tried to do that at Apple. Since the very, very beginning. And we always will.”

— Steve Jobs

198. “We hire people who want to make the best things in the world.”

— Steve Jobs

199. “It’s not about money. It’s about the people you have, how you’re led, and how much you get it.”

— Steve Jobs

200. “Ask for feedback from people with diverse backgrounds. Each one will tell you one useful thing. If you’re at the top of the chain, sometimes people won’t give you honest feedback because they’re afraid. In this case, disguise yourself, or get feedback from other sources.”

— Steve Jobs