Top 400 Steve Jobs Quotes (2024 Update)
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351. “I’d like the people teaching my kids to be good enough that they could get a job at the company I work for, making a hundred thousand dollars a year. Why should they work at a school for thirty-five to forty thousand dollars if they could get a job here at a hundred thousand dollars a year?”

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352. “The thing that drives me and my colleagues at both Apple and Pixar is that you see something very compelling to you, and you don’t quite know how to get to it, but you know, sometimes intuitively, it’s within your grasp. And it’s worth putting in years of your life to make it come into existence.”

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353. “There’s nothing that makes my day more than getting an e-mail from some random person in the universe who just bought an iPad over in the UK and tells me the story about how it’s the coolest product they’ve ever brought home in their lives. That’s what keeps me going.”

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354. “I think we’re having fun. I think our customers really like our products. And we’re always trying to do better.”

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355. “The desktop metaphor was invented because one, you were a stand-alone device, and two, you had to manage your own storage. That’s a very big thing in a desktop world. And that may go away. You may not have to manage your own storage. You may not store much before too long.”

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356. “It took us three years to build the NeXT computer. If we’d given customers what they said they wanted, we’d have built a computer they’d have been happy with a year after we spoke to them – not something they’d want now.”

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357. “There are sneakers that cost more than an iPod.”

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358. “To do anything of magnitude takes at least five years, more likely seven or eight. Rightfully or wrongfully, that’s how I think.”

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359. “The people who are doing the work are the moving force behind the Macintosh. My job is to create a space for them, to clear out the rest of the organization and keep it at bay.”

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360. “We think Android is very, very fragmented, and becoming more fragmented by the day. And as you know, Apple strives for the integrated model so that the user isn’t forced to be the systems integrator.”

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361. “There’s a temptation in our networked age to think that ideas can be developed by email and iChat. That’s crazy. Creativity comes from spontaneous meetings, from random discussions. You run into someone, you ask what they’re doing, you say ‘wow,’ and soon you’re cooking up all sorts of ideas.”

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362. “One: demonstrations always crash. And two: the probability of them crashing goes up exponentially with the number of people watching.”

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363. “The good music companies do an amazing thing. They have people who can pick the person that’s gonna be successful out of 5,000 candidates. And there’s not enough information to do that – it’s an intuitive process.”

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364. “Woz is living his own life now. He hasn’t been around Apple for about five years. But what he did will go down in history.”

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365. “But Apple really beats to a different drummer. I used to say that Apple should be the Sony of this business, but in reality, I think Apple should be the Apple of this business.”

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366. “I think the Macintosh was created by a group of people who felt that ah there wasn’t a strict vision between sort of science and art.”

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367. “It’s very simple: The more successful you are, the more you’ll earn. But if you’re not successful, you will not earn a dime.”

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368. “The web is not going to change the world, certainly not in the next 10 years. It’s going to augment the world. And once you’re in this web-augmented space, you’re going to see that democratization takes place.”

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369. “The seven-inch tablets are tweeners: too big to compete with a smartphone, and too small to compete with an iPad.”

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370. “Music companies are not technology companies any more than technology companies are music companies. They’re really different from each other.”

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371. “Apple stores are intended not just to move boxes, but to enrich lives.”

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372. “We try to use the talents we do have to express our deep feelings, to show our appreciation of all the contributions that came before us, and to add something to that flow. That’s what’s driven me.”

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373. “First was the mouse. The second was the click wheel. And now, we’re going to bring multi-touch to the market. And each of these revolutionary interfaces has made possible a revolutionary product – the Mac, the iPod and now the iPhone.”

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374. “When the sales guys run the company, the product guys do not matter so much, and a lot of them just turn off.”

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375. “Now, we are selling over 5 million songs a day now. Isn’t that unbelievable? That’s 58 songs every second of every minute of every hour of every day.”

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376. “Apple’s market share is bigger than BMW’s or Mercedes’s or Porsche’s in the automotive market. What’s wrong with being BMW or Mercedes?”

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377. “When companies get bigger they try to replicate their success. But they assume their magic came from process. They try to use processes to substitute content.”

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378. “If you tell people they can’t burn CDs of their music, as almost every current legal music service has done, or they can only burn one CD with a track or pay per track per burn extra, nobody is going to go for it.”

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379. “I’ll always stay connected with Apple. I hope that throughout my life I’ll sort of have the thread of my life and the thread of Apple weave in and out of each other, like a tapestry. There may be a few years when I’m not there, but I’ll always come back.”

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380. “I get asked a lot why Apple’s customers are so loyal. It’s not because they belong to the Church of Mac! That’s ridiculous.”

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381. “Stealing music is not right, and I can understand people being very upset about their intellectual property being stolen.”

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382. “I met Woz when I was 13, at a friend’s garage. He was about 18. He was, like, the first person I met who knew more electronics than I did at that point. We became good friends, because we shared an interest in computer and we had a sense of humor. We pulled all kinds of pranks together.”

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383. “Let them know precisely what you are going to do with their data.”

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384. “To have your whole music library with you at all times is a quantum leap in listening to music. How do we possibly do this?”

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385. “Who wants a stylus. You have to get em and put em away, and you lose em. Yuck. Nobody wants a stylus.”

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386. “It’s not about charisma and personality, it’s about results and products and those very bedrock things that are why people at Apple and outside of Apple are getting more excited about the company and what Apple stands for and what its potential is to contribute to the industry.”

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387. “We’re cautious. We’d rather exceed expectations than miss but I think it’s going to be a continued difficult economy. Apple is trying a different way to navigate out of this, we’re trying to innovate.”

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388. “I’m very excited about having the Internet in my den.”

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389. “People equated burning CDs with theft. That’s not what burning CDs is. Theft is about acquiring the music from the Internet.”

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390. “We’re going to be able to ask our computers to monitor things for us, and when certain conditions happen, are triggered, the computers will take certain actions and inform us after the fact.”

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391. “I’m not worried about the country’s long-term future. This country is insanely great. What I’m worried about is that we don’t talk enough about solutions.”

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392. “If, for some reason, we make some big mistake and IBM wins, my personal feeling is that we are going to enter a computer Dark Ages for about twenty years.”

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393. “Mac OS X Tiger will come out long before Longhorn.”

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394. “Part of what made the Macintosh great was that the people working on it were musicians and poets and artists and zoologists and historians who also happened to be the best computer scientists in the world.”

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395. “You know, I’ve got a plan that could rescue Apple. I can’t say any more than that it’s the perfect product and the perfect strategy for Apple. But nobody there will listen to me.”

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396. “The tragedy is that Dell didn’t win it – we lost it.”

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397. “It places value on experience versus intellectual understanding. I saw a lot of people contemplating things but it didn’t seem to lead to too many places. I got very interested in people who had discovered something more significant than an intellectual, abstract understanding.”

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398. “There’s a lot of symbolism to your return. Is that going to be enough to reinvigorate the company with a sense of magic?”

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399. “We think that computers are the most remarkable tools that humankind has ever come up with, and we think that people are basically tool users. So if we can just get lots of computers to lots of people, it will make some qualitative difference to the world.”

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400. “The manual for WordStar, the most popular word-processing program, is 400 pages thick. To write a novel, you have to read a novel – one that reads like a mystery to most people. They’re not going to learn slash q-z any more than they’re going to learn Morse code. That is what Macintosh is all about.”

— Steve Jobs