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"135 Steve Jobs Quotes & Sayings

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Born: 24 February 1955. Died: 5 October 2011 | Business magnate | Industrial designer | Investor |

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.

Great Settle Heart Matter
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The people who are crazy enough to think they can change the world are the ones who do.

People Crazy Change World
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Your time is limited, so don’t waste it living someone else’s life.

Someone Time Limited Living
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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.

Love Work Great Settle
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Innovation is the only way to win.

Innovation Win Way Creative
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Don’t let the noise of others’ opinions drown out your own inner voice.

Noise Opinion Drown Inner
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Let’s go invent tomorrow instead of worrying about what happened yesterday.
Event Tomorrow Yesterday Happen
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Follow your heart and your intuition. They somehow already know what you truly want to become. Everything else is secondary.

Follow Heart Intuition Become
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Design is not just what it looks like and feels like. Design is how it works.
Designs Looks Feels Works
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If you live each day as it was your last, someday you'll most certainly be right.
Someday Certainly Right Last
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Sometimes life’s going to hit 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.

Hit Brick Head Convinced
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Details matter, it’s worth waiting to get it right.

Wait Details Matter Right
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Have the courage to follow your heart and intuition. They somehow already know what you truly want to become. Everything else is secondary.

Courage Follow Heart Intuition
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You have to be burning with an idea, or a problem, or a wrong that you want to right. If you’re not passionate enough from the start, you’ll never stick it out.

Burn Idea Problem Passionate
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A lot of times, people don’t know what they want until you show it to them.
People Time Want Show
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Being the richest man in the cemetery doesn’t matter to me. Going to bed at night saying we’ve done something wonderful, that’s what matters to me.

Rich Bed Wonderful Something
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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.

Settle Heart Better Relationship
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Learn continually. There’s always “one more thing” to learn.
Learn Continually More Thing
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Be a yardstick of quality. Some people aren’t used to an environment where excellence is expected.

Yardstick Quality Excellence Expect
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Things don’t have to change the world to be important.

Things Change World Important
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Innovation is not about saying yes to everything. It’s about saying no to all but the most crucial features.

Innovation Features Everything Crucial
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My job is not to be easy on people. My job is to take these great people we have and to push them and make them even better.

Job Easy People Great
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What we are doing here is going to send a giant ripple through the universe.

Send Giant Ripple Universe
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Again, 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. You have to trust in something – your gut, destiny, life, karma, whatever. This approach has never let me down, and it has made all the difference in my life.

Connect Forward Future Trust
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To go forward you have to leave something behind.
Forward Leave Something Behind
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It doesn’t make sense to hire smart people and tell them what to do; we hire smart people so they can tell us what to do.

Smart Hire Sense People
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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.

Mirror Morning Today Answer
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Innovation,Change,Opportunity,Threat

Innovation Change Opportunity Threat
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That’s been one of my mantras – focus and simplicity. Simple can be harder than complex: You have to work hard to get your thinking clean to make it simple. But it’s worth it in the end because once you get there, you can move mountains.

Focus Simplicity Complex Worth
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Management is about persuading people to do things they do not want to do, while leadership is about inspiring people to do things they never thought they could.

Convince Separates Entrepreneurs Perseverance
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The heaviness of being successful was replaced by the lightness of being a beginner again.

Heavy Success Light Begin
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Whatever you do, you must never let the voice in your head control the brain in your heart.

Voice Head Control Brain
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Everything around you that you call life was made up by people that were no smarter than you and you can change it, you can influence it, you can build your own things that other people can use.

Life People Influence Build
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Do your best at every job. Don’t sleep! Success generates more success so be hungry for it. Hire good people with a passion for excellence.

Success Hire Hungry Job
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Listen to me. We’re here to make a dent in the universe. Otherwise why even be here?

Listen Dent Universe Life
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We don’t settle for anything less than excellence.
Settle Excellence Anything Less
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When you first start off trying to solve a problem, the first solutions you come up with are very complex, and most people stop there. But if you keep going, and live with the problem and peel more layers of the onion off, you can often times arrive at some very elegant and simple solutions.

Problem Solution Elegant Layers
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My favorite things in life don’t cost any money. It’s really clear that the most precious resource we all have is time.

Favorite Life Money Precious
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Everybody in this country should learn how to program a computer, because it teaches you how to think.

Country Learn Program Computer
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Get closer than ever to your customers. So close that you tell them what they need well before they realize it themselves.

Customer Close Need Realize
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Sometimes life hits you in the head with a brick. Don’t lose faith.

Life Hit Faith Brick
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Great art stretches the taste, it doesn’t follow tastes.
Taste Art Stretch Follow
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You’ve got to start with the customer experience and work backwards to the technology. You can’t start with the technology and try to figure out where you’re going to sell it.

Start Customer Experience Sell
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Life can be much broader. You can embrace it, change it, improve it, make your mark upon it.

Life Broad Embrace Change
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We’re not going to be the first to this party, but we’re going to be the best.

Party Best First Fun
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Your customers dream of a happier and better life. Don’t move products. Instead, enrich lives.
Customer Happy Product Enrich
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Manage the top line: your strategy, your people, and your products, and the bottom line will follow.

Strategy Product Follow People
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I hate it when people call themselves ‘entrepreneurs’ when what they’re really trying to do is launch a startup and then sell of go public, so they can cash in and move on. They’re unwilling to do the work it takes to build a real company, which is the hardest work in business.

Entrepreneur Launch Cash Business
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You can’t just ask customers what they want and then try to give that to them. By the time you get it built, they’ll want something new.

Customer Ask Want Time
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And we’ve all chosen to do this with our lives. So it better be damn good. It better be worth it.

Choose Life Worth Better
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Steve Jobs Quotes & Sayings