Top 400 Steve Jobs Quotes (2025 Update)
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401. “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

402. “Pointing is a metaphor we all know. We’ve done a lot of studies and tests on that, and it’s much faster to do all kinds of functions, such as cutting and pasting, with a mouse, so it’s not only easier to use but more efficient.”

— Steve Jobs

403. “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.”

— Steve Jobs

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

— Steve Jobs

405. “I think right now it’s a battle for the mindshare of developers and for the mindshare of customers, and right now iPhone and Android are winning that battle.”

— Steve Jobs

406. “I can help the next generation remember the lineage of great companies here and how to continue the tradition. The Valley has been very supportive of me. I should do my best to repay.”

— Steve Jobs

407. “The creative industries tend to dismiss technology as just something to buy and not understand how hard it is and how creative it can be as well.”

— Steve Jobs

408. “The problem is I’m older now, I’m 40 years old, and this stuff doesn’t change the world. It really doesn’t.”

— Steve Jobs

409. “School was pretty hard for me at the beginning.”

— Steve Jobs

410. “People say sometimes, “You work in the fastest-moving industry in the world.” I don’t feel that way. I think I work in one of the slowest. It seems to take forever to get anything done.”

— Steve Jobs

411. “Each year has been so robust with problems and successes and learning experiences and human experienes that a year is a lifetime at Apple. So this has been ten lifetimes.”

— Steve Jobs

412. “What this means is that people are seeing a stable business, which is good, and a business that is in control, which is also good.”

— Steve Jobs

413. “It takes these very simple-minded instructions – ‘Go fetch a number, add it to this number, put the result there, perceive if it’s greater than this other number’ – but executes them at a rate of, let’s say, 1,000,000 per second. At 1,000,000 per second, the results appear to be magic.”

— Steve Jobs

414. “The world doesn’t need another Dell or Compaq.”

— Steve Jobs

415. “Apple has some tremendous assets, but I believe without some attention, the company could, could, could – I’m searching for the right word – could, could die.”

— Steve Jobs

416. “I just had a romance that I really care about, a lot-I mean, a lot-go up in smoke. Because of the stress, and the sort of other woman that Macintosh is.”

— Steve Jobs

417. “So when these people sell out, even though they get fabulously rich, they’re gypping themselves out of one of the potentially most rewarding experiences of their unfolding lives. Without it, they may never know their values or how to keep their newfound wealth in perspective.”

— Steve Jobs

418. “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

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

— Steve Jobs

420. “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

421. “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

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. “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

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

— 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