Top 400 Steve Jobs Quotes (2026 Update)
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401. “Stealing music is not right, and I can understand people being very upset about their intellectual property being stolen.”

— Steve Jobs

402. “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.”

— Steve Jobs

403. “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.”

— Steve Jobs

404. “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?”

— Steve Jobs

405. “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.”

— Steve Jobs

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

— Steve Jobs

407. “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.”

— Steve Jobs

408. “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.”

— Steve Jobs

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

— Steve Jobs

410. “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.”

— Steve Jobs

411. “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

412. “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.”

— Steve Jobs

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

— Steve Jobs

414. “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.”

— Steve Jobs

415. “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.”

— Steve Jobs

416. “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.”

— Steve Jobs

417. “I don’t think I’ve ever worked so hard on something, but working on Macintosh was the neatest experience of my life. Almost everyone who worked on it will say that. None of us wanted to release it at the end. It was as though we knew that once it was out of our hands, it wouldn’t be ours anymore.”

— Steve Jobs

418. “Stay hungry. Stay foolish. Do you know a good Steve Jobs quote? Let us know in the comments!”

— Steve Jobs

419. “You know, my main reaction to this money thing is that it’s humorous, all the attention to it, because it’s hardly the most insightful or valuable thing that’s happened to me.”

— Steve Jobs

420. “When we hire someone, even if they are going to be in marketing, I will have them talk to the design folks and the engineers.”

— Steve Jobs

421. “The reason we wouldn’t make a seven-inch tablet isn’t because we don’t want to hit a price point, it’s because we don’t think you can make a great tablet with a seven-inch screen.”

— Steve Jobs

422. “You know, you keep on innovating, you keep on making better stuff. And if you always want the latest and greatest, then you have to buy a new iPod at least once a year.”

— Steve Jobs

423. “I’d like to create an integrated television set that is completely easy to use. It would be seamlessly synced with all of your devices and with iCloud. It will have the simplest user interface you could imagine. I finally cracked it.”

— Steve Jobs

424. “The web is just going to be one more of those major change factors that businesses face every decade.”

— Steve Jobs

425. “Electronics was something I could always fall back on when I needed food on the table.”

— Steve Jobs

426. “You’ll see more and more perfection of that – computer as servant. But the next thing is going to be computer as a guide or agent.”

— Steve Jobs

427. “It’s like when IBM drove a lot of innovation out of the computer industry before the microprocessor came along. Eventually, Microsoft will crumble because of complacency, and maybe some new things will grow. But until that happens, until there’s some fundamental technology shift, it’s just over.”

— Steve Jobs

428. “I have always said if there ever came a day when I could no longer meet my duties and expectations as Apple’s CEO, I would be the first to let you know. Unfortunately, that day has come.”

— Steve Jobs

429. “The most compelling reason for most people to buy a computer for the home will be to link it to a nationwide communications network. We’re just in the beginning stages of what will be a truly remarkable breakthrough for most people – as remarkable as the telephone.”

— Steve Jobs

430. “I think we need editorial oversight now more than ever. Anything we can do to help newspapers find new ways of expression that will help them get paid, I am all for.”

— Steve Jobs

431. “Why would I ever want to run Disney? Wouldn’t it make more sense just to sell them Pixar and retire?”

— Steve Jobs

432. “But it’s a disservice to constantly put things in this radical new light – that it’s going to change everything. Things don’t have to change the world to be important.”

— Steve Jobs

433. “If Macintosh hadn’t been successful, then I should have just thrown in the towel, because my vision of the whole industry would have been totally wrong.”

— Steve Jobs

434. “The HD revolution is over, it happened. HD won. Everybody wants HD.”

— Steve Jobs

435. “A lot of companies do things because it’s technically possible. But in the end, nobody cares. Nobody wants to buy them.”

— Steve Jobs

436. “It is piracy, not overt online music stores, which is our main competitor.”

— Steve Jobs

437. “We have never worried about numbers. In the market place, Apple is trying to focus the spotlight on products, because products really make a differenceYou can’t con people in this business. The products speak for themselves.”

— Steve Jobs

438. “I think money is a wonderful thing because it enables you to do things. It enables you to invest in ideas that don’t have a short-term payback.”

— Steve Jobs