Top 400 Steve Jobs Quotes (2025 Update)
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251. “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

252. “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

253. “Your thoughts construct patterns like scaffolding in your mind. You are really etching chemical patterns. In most cases, people get stuck in those patterns, just like grooves in a record, and they never get out of them.”

— Steve Jobs

254. “Pixar is seen by a lot of folks as an overnight success, but if you really look closely, most overnight successes took a long time.”

— Steve Jobs

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

— Steve Jobs

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

— Steve Jobs

257. “What a computer is to me is the most remarkable tool that we have ever come up with. It’s the equivalent of a bicycle for our minds.”

— Steve Jobs

258. “Find people who are competent and really bright, but more importantly, people who care exactly about the same things you care about.”

— Steve Jobs

259. “We limit how much technology our kids use at home.”

— Steve Jobs

260. “But innovation comes from people meeting up in the hallways or calling each other at 10:30 at night with a new idea, or because they realized something that shoots holes in how we’ve been thinking about a problem.”

— Steve Jobs

261. “We just wanted to build the best thing we could build.”

— Steve Jobs

262. “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

263. “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.”

— Steve Jobs

264. “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

265. “The people who built Silicon Valley were engineers. They learned business, they learned a lot of different things, but they had a real belief that humans, if they worked hard with other creative, smart people, could solve most of humankind’s problems. I believe that very much.”

— Steve Jobs

266. “The cure for Apple is not cost-cutting. The cure for Apple is to innovate its way out of its current predicament.”

— Steve Jobs

267. “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

268. “Design is the fundamental soul of a man-made creation.”

— Steve Jobs

269. “Innovation is usually the result of connections of past experiences. But if you have the same experiences as everyone else, you are unlikely to look in a different direction.”

— Steve Jobs

270. “It is hard to think that a $2 billion company with 4,300-plus people couldn’t compete with six people in blue jeans.”

— Steve Jobs

271. “One of my beliefs very strongly is that any democracy depends on a free, healthy press.”

— Steve Jobs

272. “It was one of those sort of apocalyptic moments. I remember within ten minutes of seeing the graphical user interface stuff, just knowing that every computer would work this way someday. It was so obvious once you saw it. It didn’t require tremendous intellect. It was so clear.”

— Steve Jobs

273. “The roots of apple were to build computers for people, not for corporations. The world doesn’t need another dell or compaq.”

— Steve Jobs

274. “The day I was born songs were on records, phones were tied down, computers needed rooms and the web was fiction. Change the world. You can.”

— Steve Jobs

275. “Everybody should learn to program a computer because it teaches you how to think.”

— Steve Jobs

276. “Computers themselves, and software yet to be developed, will revolutionize the way we learn.”

— Steve Jobs

277. “You’ve heard of plug-and-play. This is plug, unplug and play. It’s so simple to use, it’s unbelievable.”

— Steve Jobs

278. “I thought deeply about this. I ended up concluding that the worst thing that could possibly happen as we get big and as we get a little more influence in the world is if we change our core values and start letting it slide, I can’t do that. I’d rather quit.”

— Steve Jobs

279. “When you’re young, you look at television and think, there’s a conspiracy. The networks have conspired to dumb us down. But when you get a little older, you realize that’s not true. The networks are in business to give people exactly what they want.”

— Steve Jobs

280. “I wish developing great products was as easy as writing a check. If that was the case, Microsoft would have great products.”

— Steve Jobs

281. “I’ve got to tell you, the Internet is a place you go when you want to turn your brain on, and television is a place you go when you want to turn your brain off. I’m not at all convinced that the twain will meet.”

— Steve Jobs

282. “I think PCs are going to be like trucks. Less people will need them. And this is going to make some people uneasy.”

— Steve Jobs

283. “I’ve always wanted to own and control the primary technology in everything we do.”

— Steve Jobs

284. “I don’t view wealth as something that validates my intelligence.”

— Steve Jobs

285. “When you ask creative people how they did something, they feel a little guilty because they didn’t really do it, they just saw something.”

— Steve Jobs

286. “That’s my job – to make sure everything is great.”

— Steve Jobs

287. “The Macintosh was supposed to be the computer for people that just wanted to use a computer without having to learn how to use one.”

— Steve Jobs

288. “What’s new is this amazingly efficient distribution system for stolen property called the Internet – and no one’s gonna shut down the Internet.”

— Steve Jobs

289. “If I had never dropped in on that single course in college, the Mac would have never had multiple typefaces or proportionally spaced fonts. And since Windows just copied the Mac, it’s likely that no personal computer would have them.”

— Steve Jobs

290. “We made the buttons on the screen look so good you’ll want to lick them.”

— Steve Jobs

291. “I’m the only person I know that’s lost a quarter of a billion dollars in one year. It’s very character-building.”

— Steve Jobs

292. “I’m sorry, it’s true. Having children really changes your view on these things. We’re born, we live for a brief instant, and we die. It’s been happening for a long time. Technology is not changing it much – if at all.”

— Steve Jobs

293. “Without death there would be very little progress.”

— Steve Jobs

294. “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.”

— Steve Jobs

295. “Every good product I’ve ever seen is because a group of people cared deeply about making something wonderful that they and their friends wanted. They wanted to use it themselves.”

— Steve Jobs

296. “I feel like somebody just punched me in the stomach and knocked all my wind out. I’m only 30 years old and I want to have a chance to continue creating things. I know I’ve got at least one more great computer in me. And Apple is not going to give me a chance to do that.”

— Steve Jobs

297. “I was lucky to get into computers when it was a very young and idealistic industry. There weren’t many degrees offered in computer science, so people in computers were brilliant people from mathematics, physics, music, zoology, whatever. They loved it, and no one was really in it for the money.”

— Steve Jobs

298. “My mother taught me to read before I went to school, so I was pretty bored in school, and I turned into a little terror. You should have seen us in third grade. We basically destroyed our teacher. We would let snakes loose in the classroom and explode bombs.”

— Steve Jobs

299. “For most of my life, I’ve felt that there must be more to our existence than meets the eye. This is who I am, and you can’t expect me to be someone I’m not.”

— Steve Jobs

300. “Our friends up north spend over five billion dollars on research and development and all they seem to do is copy Google and Apple.”

— Steve Jobs