~ The Biography Of Steve Jobs ~

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Sayings

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Steve used to start his employee retreats by his famous "Sayings from Chairman Jobs" — he was a great person to quote indeed

Apple Quotes

Getting fired from Apple was the best thing that could have ever happened to me. The heaviness of being successful was replaced by the lightness of being a beginner again, less sure about everything. It freed me to enter one of the most creative periods of my life.

Source: Stanford commencement addres, Jun. 12 2005

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Sayings

Quotes
Steve used to start his employee retreats by his famous "Sayings from Chairman Jobs" — he was a great person to quote indeed

Apple Quotes

Sometimes life hits you in the head with a brick. Don't lose faith. I'm convinced that the only thing that kept me going was that I loved what I did. You've got to find what you love. And that is as true for your work as it is for your lovers. Your work is going to fill a large part of your life, and the only way to be truly satisfied is to do what you believe is great work. And the only way to do great work is to love what you do. If you haven't found it yet, keep looking. Don't settle. As with all matters of the heart, you'll know when you find it. And, like any great relationship, it just gets better and better as the years roll on. So keep looking until you find it. Don't settle.

Source: Stanford commencement addres, Jun. 12 2005

[MysteRy]

Sayings

Quotes
Steve used to start his employee retreats by his famous "Sayings from Chairman Jobs" — he was a great person to quote indeed

Apple Quotes

When I was 17, I read a quote that went something like: ‘If you live each day as if it was your last, someday you'll most certainly be right.’ It made an impression on me, and since then, for the past 33 years, I have looked in the mirror every morning and asked myself: ‘If today were the last day of my life, would I want to do what I am about to do today?’ And whenever the answer has been ‘No’ for too many days in a row, I know I need to change something.

Source: Stanford commencement addres, Jun. 12 2005

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Sayings

Quotes
Steve used to start his employee retreats by his famous "Sayings from Chairman Jobs" — he was a great person to quote indeed

Apple Quotes

Remembering that I'll be dead soon is the most important tool I've ever encountered to help me make the big choices in life. Because almost everything — all external expectations, all pride, all fear of embarrassment or failure - these things just fall away in the face of death, leaving only what is truly important. Remembering that you are going to die is the best way I know to avoid the trap of thinking you have something to lose. You are already naked. There is no reason not to follow your heart.

Source: Stanford commencement addres, Jun. 12 2005

[MysteRy]

Sayings

Quotes
Steve used to start his employee retreats by his famous "Sayings from Chairman Jobs" — he was a great person to quote indeed

Apple Quotes

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. It is Life's change agent. It clears out the old to make way for the new. Right now the new is you, but someday not too long from now, you will gradually become the old and be cleared away. Sorry to be so dramatic, but it is quite true. 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.

Source: Stanford commencement addres, Jun. 12 2005

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Sayings

Quotes
Steve used to start his employee retreats by his famous "Sayings from Chairman Jobs" — he was a great person to quote indeed

Apple Quotes

Apple is the most creative of the PC companies; Pixar is the most technologically advanced entertainment company. [Apple releases new products every few months, and top execs make 10 major decisions a day.] But the Holy Grail for Pixar is releasing one product — a movie-a-year, and as CEO I might make three really critical decisions a year, and they are very hard to change.

Source: Stanford Graduate Business School interview, May 29 2003

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Steve used to start his employee retreats by his famous "Sayings from Chairman Jobs" — he was a great person to quote indeed

Apple Quotes

My best contribution to the group is not settling for anything but really good stuff. A lot of times, people don't do great things because great things really aren't expected of them, and nobody ever really demands that they try, and nobody says, 'Hey, that's the culture here'. If you set that up, people will do things that are greater than they ever thought they could be. Really some great work that will go down in history.

Source: Steve Jobs in 1984, quoted in The Perfect Thing by Steven Levy

[MysteRy]

Sayings

Quotes
Steve used to start his employee retreats by his famous "Sayings from Chairman Jobs" — he was a great person to quote indeed

Apple Quotes

I think back to Detroit in the seventies, when cars were so bad. Why? The people running the companies then didn't love cars. One of the things wrong with the PC industry today is that most of the people running the companies don't love PCs. Does Steve Ballmer love PCs? Does Craig Barrett love PCs? Does Michael Dell love PCs? If Michael Dell wasn't selling PCs he'd be selling something else. These people don't love what they create. And people here do.

Source: Steve Jobs in 2004, quoted in The Perfect Thing by Steven Levy

[MysteRy]

Sayings

Quotes
Steve used to start his employee retreats by his famous "Sayings from Chairman Jobs" — he was a great person to quote indeed

Apple Quotes

I love what we’re doing at Apple now, I think it’s the best work that Apple’s ever done. But I think all of us on the Mac team point to that as the high point of our careers. It’s like the Beatles playing Shea Stadium. We were really working fourteen-to-eighteen-hour days, seven days a week. For, like, two years, three years. That was our life. But we loved it, we were young, and we could do it.

Source: Steve Jobs in 2004, quoted in The Perfect Thing by Steven Levy

[MysteRy]

Sayings

Quotes
Steve used to start his employee retreats by his famous "Sayings from Chairman Jobs" — he was a great person to quote indeed

Apple Quotes

(of his generation) We wanted to more richly experience why were we were alive, not just make a better life, and so people went in search of things. The great thing that came from those that time was to realize that there was definitely more to life than the materialism of the late 50’s and early sixties. We were going in search of something deeper.

Source: Steven Levy's Eulogy

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Sayings

Quotes
Steve used to start his employee retreats by his famous "Sayings from Chairman Jobs" — he was a great person to quote indeed

Apple Quotes

I’m a big believer in boredom. Boredom allows one to indulge in curiosity and out of curiosity comes everything. All the [technology] stuff is wonderful, but having nothing to do can be wonderful, too.

Source: Steven Levy's Eulogy

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Sayings

Quotes
Steve used to start his employee retreats by his famous "Sayings from Chairman Jobs" — he was a great person to quote indeed

Apple Quotes

(on the iPad before launch) This will be the most important thing I've ever done.

Source: Techcrunch, Jan. 24 2010

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Sayings

Quotes
Steve used to start his employee retreats by his famous "Sayings from Chairman Jobs" — he was a great person to quote indeed

Apple Quotes

(on the Wall Street Journal calling him a ‘digital music impresario’) I didn’t know what it meant. Does that mean I run a carnival? What we do at Apple is very simple: we invent stuff. We make the best personal computers in the world, some of the best software, the best portable MP3/music player, and now we make the best online music store in the world. We just make stuff. So I don’t know what impresario means. We make stuff, put it out there, and people use it.

Source: Technologizer, Apr. 28 2003

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Sayings

Quotes
Steve used to start his employee retreats by his famous "Sayings from Chairman Jobs" — he was a great person to quote indeed

Apple Quotes

Some detractors like those at Listen.com say that downloading isn’t the most popular feature on their music service Rhapsody. What’s your response? Well, that’s correct. Downloading sorrys on their service. You download a track and you can’t burn it to a CD without paying them more money—you can’t put it on your MP3 player, you can’t put it on multiple computers—it sorrys!  So of course nobody downloads! You pay extra to download even on top of subscription fees. No wonder they have hardly any download traffic—[they] hardly even have any subscribers.

Source: Technologizer, Apr. 28 2003

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Sayings

Quotes
Steve used to start his employee retreats by his famous "Sayings from Chairman Jobs" — he was a great person to quote indeed

Apple Quotes

I end up not buying a lot of things. Because I find them ridiculous.

Source: The independent, Oct. 29 2005