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Steve Jobs Quotes That Will Inspire You to Remarkable affairs.

Updated: Dec 8, 2019

Take a look at 20 intelligent and inspiring quotes from Steve Jobs, one of the wealthiest people in the world.


Steve Jobs is remembered as a tremendous innovator. He was a wonderful entrepreneur and an amazing visionary. The former CEO of Apple was a leader and a legend. And he had much to say. He had thoughts about making great things and sometimes mistakes, following your intuition, and making the most of life’s limited time. Steve Jobs didn’t become successful overnight. It took years of hard work, determination, and perseverance to build Apple into the company that it is today. If you really think about all what accomplished by Steve Jobs, it’s beyond remarkable. He changed the way we live.


Steve Jobs was is one of the most respected entrepreneurs and inventors of his time. In 1976, he founded Apple together with his friend Steve Wozniak. They created their first computer, the Apple I, in the garage of Jobs’ parents. This was followed by the Apple II, which sold 2 million units worldwide quickly make Steve Jobs famous and wealthy. As Apple grew, Steve Jobs brought in John Sculley, a more experienced CEO, to run the company. In 1985, following a long power struggle with Sculley, Jobs was fired from his own company.


During this time he started a new company called NeXT and another company called Pixar. Pixar went on to create the first computer-animated film, Toy Story. 12 years later, Apple bought NeXT and Jobs returned to Apple as the head of the company. Under his renewed leadership Apple would successfully develop and launch the iMac, the iPod, the iPhone, and the iPad, launching the different products in a multi-year pace in his famous keynotes and making his company the highest valued company in the world. His passion for making a “dent in the universe” and his drive for perfection in everything he touched revolutionized 6 industries; phones, music, animated movies, PCs, tablets and digital publishing.


Thanks to his a lot of lectures and speeches, we have a glimpse into his day-to-day work ethic and how he managed to do as much as he did. And, in order to help you reach your career goals, we’ve rounded up 20 of his amazing quotes. Read them, be inspired by them, and then get out there and make your dreams come true :


1. “Don’t let the noise of others’ opinions drown out your own inner voice.”


2. “Have the courage to follow your heart and intuition. They somehow already know what you truly want to become. Everything else is secondary.”


3. “Creativity is just connecting things.”


4. “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.”


5. “Your time is limited, so don’t waste it living someone else’s life.”


6.“Be a yardstick of quality. Some people aren’t used to an environment where excellence is expected.”


7.“When you grow up you tend to get told that the world is the way it is and your life is just to live your life inside the world. Try not to bash into the walls too much. Try to have a nice family life, have fun, save a little money. That’s a very limited life. Life can be much broader once you discover one simple fact: 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… Once you learn that, you’ll never be the same again.”


8. “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.”


9. “I think if you do something and it turns out pretty good, then you should go do something else wonderful, not dwell on it for too long. Just figure out what’s next.”


10. “Technology is nothing. What’s important is that you have a faith in people, that they’re basically good and smart, and if you give them tools, they’ll do wonderful things with them.”


11. “I’ve always been attracted to the more revolutionary changes. I don’t know why. Because they’re harder. They’re much more stressful emotionally. And you usually go through a period where everybody tells you that you’ve completely failed.”


12. “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. It freed me to enter one of the most creative periods of my life.”


13. “The only way to do great work is to love what you do.”


14. “If you define the problem correctly, you almost have the Solution.”


15. “Sometimes life hits you in the head with a brick. Don’t lose faith.”


16.“If i try my best and fail well, I have tried my best.”


17. “The design is not just what it looks like, a design is how it works.”


18. “Let’s go invent the future instead of worrying about what happened in the past.”


19. “Going to bed at night saying we’ve done something wonderful… that’s what matters to me.”


20. “Mistakes teach you important lessons. Every time you encounter one, you’re a step closer to your goal.”


21. “Great things in business are never done by one person; they’re done by a team of people.”


22. “You have to have a lot of passion for what you do… because if you don’t, any rational person would give up.”


23. “You must act. You must be willing to crash and burn. If you’re afraid of failing, you won’t get very far. ”


24. “It’s impossible to fail if you learn from your mistakes. Don’t give up.”


25. “My job is not to be easy on people. My job is to make them better.”


26. “I never did it for the money.”


27. “Think different.”


28. “The people who are crazy enough to think they will change the world are the ones who do.”



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