Top 400 Steve Jobs Quotes (2025 Update)
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201. “Don’t just follow your passion but something larger than yourself.”

— Steve Jobs

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

— Steve Jobs

203. “We’re gambling on our vision, and we would rather do that than make “me too” products. Let some other companies do that. For us, it’s always the next dream.”

— Steve Jobs

204. “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.”

— Steve Jobs

205. “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

206. “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

207. “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

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

— Steve Jobs

209. “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

210. “Great engineers are a huge multiplier.”

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

— Steve Jobs

213. “We do not say anything about future products. We work on them in secret, then we announce them.”

— Steve Jobs

214. “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

215. “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

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

— Steve Jobs

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

— Steve Jobs

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

— Steve Jobs

219. “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

220. “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

221. “Oh wow. Oh wow. Oh wow.”

— Steve Jobs

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

— Steve Jobs

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

— Steve Jobs

224. “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

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

— Steve Jobs

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

— Steve Jobs

227. “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

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

— Steve Jobs

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

— Steve Jobs

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

— Steve Jobs

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

— Steve Jobs

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

— Steve Jobs

234. “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

235. “The only problem with Microsoft is they just have no taste. They have absolutely no taste. And I don’t mean that in a small way, I mean that in a big way, in the sense that they don’t think of original ideas, and they don’t bring much culture into their products.”

— Steve Jobs

236. “I would trade all of my technology for an afternoon with Socrates.”

— Steve Jobs

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

— Steve Jobs

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

— Steve Jobs

239. “You can’t win on innovation unless you have a way to communicate it to customers.”

— Steve Jobs

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

— Steve Jobs

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

— Steve Jobs

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

— Steve Jobs

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

— Steve Jobs

244. “My passion has been to build an enduring company where people were motivated to make great products. Everything else was secondary. Sure, it was great to make a profit, because that was what allowed you to make great products. But the products, not the profits were the motivation.”

— Steve Jobs

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

— Steve Jobs

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

— Steve Jobs

247. “The mark of an innovative company is not only that it comes up with new ideas first, but also that it knows how to leapfrog when it finds itself behind.”

— Steve Jobs

248. “I’m one of the few people who understands how producing technology requires intuition and creativity, and how producing something artistic takes real discipline.”

— Steve Jobs

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

— Steve Jobs

250. “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