Inspirational Quotations

Inspirational Quotes by Steve Jobs (American Entrepreneur)

Steven Paul Jobs (1955–2011) was an American computer entrepreneur and inventor who revolutionized the personal computing and digital animation industries. The founder of Apple, NeXT, and Pixar Animation Studios, Jobs was a pioneer of the design and marketing of consumer technology.

Born in San Francisco, Jobs was the son of the University of Wisconsin graduate students. He was adopted by machine-shop technician Paul Jobs and accountant Clara Jobs. He dropped out of college after a semester, went to India for spiritual enlightenment, returned a devout Zen Buddhist, experimented with psychedelic drugs, and then got a job with video game maker ATARI. In 1976, at the age of 21, he founded Apple Computers with Stephen Wozniak, and Apple unveiled the Macintosh computer in 1984.

Jobs left in 1985 to create Pixar Animation Studios and NeXT. Jobs returned to a failing Apple in 1996 and directed a turnaround marketing effort that led to the elegant new iMac computer, followed by the development of the iPod music player, the iTunes music distribution system, and the iPhone smartphone, and the iPad tablet computer.

Jobs was diagnosed with pancreatic cancer in 2003. His health began to decline in 2009, and he resigned as Apple’s CEO in August 2011, just six weeks before his death. He was famously driven but short-tempered. His instinct for consumer preferences, a missionary zeal for perfection, and an ability to attract media attention were critical factors in the success of his companies.

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Innovation is usually the result of connections of past experiences—and luck. But if you have the same experiences as everybody else, you’re unlikely to look in a different direction.
—Steve Jobs

I do stuff. I respond to stuff. That’s not a career — it’s a life!
—Steve Jobs

Don’t be trapped by dogma which is living with the results of other people’s thinking. Don’t let the noise of others’ opinions drown out your own inner voice. And most important, have the courage to follow your heart and intuition.
—Steve Jobs
Topics: Time

Stay Hungry. Stay Foolish.
—Steve Jobs

Sometimes when you innovate, you make mistakes. It is best to admit them quickly, and get on with improving your other innovations.
—Steve Jobs
Topics: Innovation

Innovation distinguishes between a leader and a follower.
—Steve Jobs
Topics: Innovation, Entrepreneurs

Innovation has nothing to do with how many R&D dollars you have. When Apple came up with the Mac, IBM was spending at least 100 times more on R&D. It’s not about money. It’s about the people you have, how you’re led, and how much you get it.
—Steve Jobs
Topics: Innovation

Here’s to the ones who see things differently. They’re not fond of rules or the status quo… They push humankind forward.
—Steve Jobs

The things I’ve done in my life have required a lot of years of work before they took off.
—Steve Jobs

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.
—Steve Jobs
Topics: Computers

Your time is limited, so don’t waste it living someone else’s life. Don’t be trapped by dogma—which is living with the results of other people’s thinking. Don’t let the noise of others’ opinions drown out your own inner voice. And most important, have the courage to follow your heart and intuition. They somehow already know what you truly want to become. Everything else is secondary.
—Steve Jobs
Topics: Time

The people who are crazy enough to think they can change the world are the ones who do.
—Steve Jobs

No one wants to die. Even people who want to go to heaven don’t want to die to get there. And yet death is the destination we all share. No one has ever escaped it. And that is as it should be, because death is very likely the single best invention of life.
—Steve Jobs
Topics: Life, Sin, People, Death, Best

Be a yardstick of quality. Some people aren’t used to an environment where excellence is expected.
—Steve Jobs
Topics: Example, Excellence, Quality

The heaviness of being successful was replaced by the lightness of being a beginner again, less sure about everything.
—Steve Jobs

I want to put a ding in the universe.
—Steve Jobs
Topics: Success & Failure, Achievement

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