Top 400 Steve Jobs Quotes (2023 Update)
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201. “Shake off this erroneous notion that life is there and you’re just gonna live in it, versus embrace it, change it, improve it, make your mark upon it.”

— Steve Jobs

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

— Steve Jobs

203. “Great engineers are a huge multiplier.”

— Steve Jobs

204. “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

205. “You can tell a lot about a person by who his or her heroes are.”

— Steve Jobs

206. “Oh wow. Oh wow. Oh wow.”

— Steve Jobs

207. “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

208. “To follow the path that others have laid before you is a reasonable course of action; therefore all progress is made by unreasonable men.”

— Steve Jobs

209. “Kick-start your brain. New ideas come from watching something, talking to people, experimenting, asking questions and getting out of the office!”

— Steve Jobs

210. “Do you create anything, or just criticize others work and belittle their motivations?”

— Steve Jobs

211. “When you’re a carpenter making a beautiful chest of drawers, you’re not going to use a piece of plywood on the back, even though it faces the wall and nobody will ever see it. You’ll know it’s there, so you’re going to use a beautiful piece of wood on the back.”

— Steve Jobs

212. “If you want to live your life in a creative way, as an artist, you have to not look back too much. You have to be willing to take whatever you’ve done and whoever you were and throw them away.”

— Steve Jobs

213. “None of us are as creative as all of us.”

— Steve Jobs

214. “I hate the way people use PowerPoints instead of thinking.”

— Steve Jobs

215. “Our goal is to make the best devices in the world, not to be the biggest.”

— Steve Jobs

216. “I don’t think of my life as a career. I do stuff. I respond to stuff. That’s not a career – it’s a life!”

— Steve Jobs

217. “Design is the fundamental soul of a human-made creation that ends up expressing itself in successive outer layers of the product or service.”

— Steve Jobs

218. “Be ready to catch the ball when it is thrown by life.”

— Steve Jobs

219. “A-plus players like to work together and they don’t like it if you tolerate B work.”

— Steve Jobs

220. “Death is very likely the single best invention of life.”

— Steve Jobs

221. “I hate the way people use slide presentations instead of thinking. People would confront a problem by creating a presentation. I wanted them to engage, to hash things out at the table, rather than show a bunch of slides. People who know what they’re talking about don’t need PowerPoint.”

— Steve Jobs

222. “The juice goes out of Christianity when it becomes too based on faith rather than on living like Jesus or seeing the world as Jesus saw it.”

— Steve Jobs

223. “There are times when you run a marathon and you wonder, Why am I doing this? But you take a drink of water, and around the next bend, you get your wind back, remember the finish line, and keep going.”

— Steve Jobs

224. “You’ve got to have a problem that you want to solve; a wrong that you want to right.”

— Steve Jobs

225. “For you to sleep well at night, the aesthetic, the quality, has to be carried all the way through.”

— Steve Jobs

226. “I’m as proud of what we don’t do as I am of what we do.”

— Steve Jobs

227. “As Regis Mckenna once said, the best marketing is education.”

— Steve Jobs

228. “It gave a tremendous level of self-confidence, that through exploration and learning one could understand seemingly very complex things in one’s environment.”

— Steve Jobs

229. “I began to realize that an intuitive understanding and consciousness was more significant than abstract thinking and intellectual logical analysis. Intuition is a very powerful thing, more powerful than intellect, in my opinion. That’s had a big impact on my work.”

— Steve Jobs

230. “Our job is to read things that are not yet on the page.”

— Steve Jobs

231. “I found that there were these incredibly great people at doing certain things, and you couldn’t replace one of these people with fifty average people.”

— Steve Jobs

232. “Being the richest man in the cemetery doesn’t matter to me.”

— Steve Jobs

233. “Pixar is the most technically advanced creative company; Apple is the most creatively advanced technical company.”

— Steve Jobs

234. “When we started off we didn’t know how to spell software.”

— Steve Jobs

235. “How can you get fired from the company you started?”

— Steve Jobs

236. “I’m an optimist in the sense that I believe humans are noble and honorable, and some of them are really smart. I have a very optimistic view of individuals.”

— Steve Jobs

237. “I think death is the most wonderful invention of life. It purges the system of these old models that are obsolete.”

— Steve Jobs

238. “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

239. “When you’re in a startup, the first ten people will determine whether the company succeeds or not.”

— Steve Jobs

240. “You’ve got to find what you love. And that is as true for your work as it is for your lovers.”

— Steve Jobs

241. “We don’t get a chance to do that many things, and every one should be really excellent. Because this is our life. Life is brief, and then you die, you know? So this is what we’ve chosen to do with our life.”

— Steve Jobs

242. “I always thought of myself as a humanities person as a kid, but I liked electronics. Then I read something that one of my heroes, Edwin Land of Polaroid, said about the importance of people who could stand at the intersection of humanities and sciences, and I decided that’s what I wanted to do.”

— Steve Jobs

243. “When you’re doing something for yourself, or your best friend or family, you’re not going to cheese out. If you don’t love something, you’re not going to go the extra mile, work the extra weekend, challenge the status quo as much.”

— Steve Jobs

244. “Pursue your dreams and see the opportunities in life’s setbacks.”

— Steve Jobs

245. “I’m one of those people that think Thomas Edison and the light bulb changed the world more than Karl Marx ever did.”

— Steve Jobs

246. “After all the statistics and calculations are formulated, the one element that breathes life into marketing is good design.”

— Steve Jobs

247. “And 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. We’re always thinking about new markets we could enter, but it’s only by saying no that you can concentrate on the things that are really important.”

— Steve Jobs

248. “I’m going to destroy Android, because it’s a stolen product. I’m willing to go thermonuclear war on this.”

— Steve Jobs

249. “My philosophy is that everything starts with a great product.”

— Steve Jobs

250. “I don’t really care about being right, I just care about success.”

— Steve Jobs