Steve Jobs Inspirational Quotes & Sayings

And the only way to do great work is to love what you do ... Don't settle — Steve Jobs

We've got to make the small things unforgettable. — Steve Jobs

I'm not dismissing the value of higher education; I'm simply saying it comes at the expense of experience. — Steve Jobs

Have the courage to follow your heart and intuition.
- Steve Jobs — Wanda Krause

He was so handsome,but he didn't look well.He reminded her of a cigarette. — Francesca Lia Block

I'm as proud of many of the things we haven't done as the things we have done. Innovation is saying no to a thousand things. — Steve Jobs

We're not going to be the first to this party, but we're going to be the best. — Steve Jobs

The hardest thing when you think about focusing. You think focusing is about saying "Yes." No. Focusing is about saying "No." And when you say "No," you piss off people. — Steve Jobs

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. — Steve Jobs

The whole idea of doing the Hollywood thing never even occurred to me. When you grow up on the East coast, Hollywood seems like this fantasy land and you don't think that people can actually make a living there. — David Steinberg

When there is truth in your being, God is always with you. When God is with you, there is no question of failure. Live your truth and not a life that others want you to live. — Apoorve Dubey

A small venue is so much more intimate and loose. You can actually be more spontaneous, I feel. — Suzy Bogguss

I would rather gamble on our vision than make a 'me, too' product. — Steve Jobs

Do you want to spend the rest of your life selling sugared water or do you want a chance to change the world? — Steve Jobs

I'm sure a lot of you had this experience when you're changing. You're growing as a person and people tend to treat you like you were 18 months ago, and it's really frustrating sometimes when you're growing up and you're more capable. It's the same thing with a company and the press. The press is going to have a lag time. The best thing we can do about the press is embrace them and do the best thing we can to educate them about our strategy. But to keep our eye on the prize, that is turning out some great products. the press and the stock prize will take care of themselves. — Steve Jobs

Nobody has tried to swallow us since I've been here. I think they are afraid how we would taste. — Steve Jobs

Fear would have told the Wright brothers not to fly. Fear would have told Rosa Parks to change seats. Fear would have told Steve Jobs that people hate touchscreens. — Jon Acuff

Everyone here has the sense that right now is one of those moments when we are influencing the future. — Steve Jobs

Stay hungry. Stay foolish. — Steve Jobs

God gave us the senses to let us feel the love in everyone's heart, not the illusions brought about by wealth. — Steve Jobs

I'd been rejected, but I was still in love, so I decided to start over. — Steve Jobs

It was decided by the university of Coimbre that the sight of several persons being slowly burned in great ceremony is an infallible secret for preventing earthquakes. — Voltaire

Quality is more important than quantity. One home run is much better than two doubles. — Steve Jobs

You go to your TV to turn your brain off. You go to the computer when you want to turn your brain on. — Steve Jobs

Dogs bark at what they don't understand. — Heraclitus

If you just sit and observe, you will see how restless your mind is. If you try to calm it, it only makes it worse, but over time it does calm, and when it does, there's room to hear more subtle things - that's when your intuition starts to blossom and you start to see things more clearly and be in the present more. Your mind just slows down, and you see a tremendous expanse in the moment. You see so much more than you could see before. It's a discipline; you have to practice it. — Walter Isaacson

You can't connect the dots looking forward; you can only connect them looking backwards. So you have to trust that the dots will somehow connect in your future. — Steve Jobs

You've got to have a problem that you want to solve; a wrong that you want to right. — Steve Jobs

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. — Steve Jobs

If you can't connect the Dots, Find the right dots first. — Mohith Agadi

Sort of Coping"

Why is anyone in the world so terrible. Real catastrophe
and catastrophizing. If we only knew when it was going to
happen.

I saw you put your hands on the floor. Intimacy without
disturbances.
The scope here of memorization, planets. The history of children

sitting still. You are so cute in all your facebook photos.
When you moved to Portland I forgot we used to call you

Tumbleweed Tex. All those barking dogs, feathered hair.
We have something in common I never mention. I wish

I'd written it down and folded it into one of your piles
saying I want to read every one of these books! Do you think

you'll have read them all before the end of time. Did you go in
to see her when she was dead. Maybe you already knew. — Farrah Field

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. — Steve Jobs

Let us not look for a gold mine or oil wells in the ground. Your mind has it all. You just have to find it. If you don't believe me, then just remember Steve Jobs. — Debasish Mridha

There's always a fine line between being too focused and missing opportunities, or being too wide and taking on too many. — Maelle Gavet

Our friends up north spend over five billion dollars on research and development and all they seem to do is copy Google and Apple. — Steve Jobs

And we've all chosen to do this with our lives. So it better be damn good. It better be worth it. — Steve Jobs

We believe people with Passion CAN change the World for the Better. -Steve Jobs — Steve Jobs