Steve Jobs Quotes

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.

But innovation comes from people meeting up in the hallways or calling each other at 10:30 at night with a new idea, or because they realized something that shoots holes in how we’ve been thinking about a problem.

If you really look closely, most overnight successes took a long time.

When you’re a carpenter making a beautiful chest of drawers, you’re not going to use a piece of plywood on the back, even though it faces the wall and nobody will ever see it. You’ll know it’s there, so you’re going to use a beautiful piece of wood on the back. For you to sleep well at night, the aesthetic, the quality, has to be carried all the way through.

If you are willing to travel around the world to meet a teacher, one will appear next door

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

"Sometimes life hits with a brick in the head, don't lose hope".
-Steve Jobs.

It will go down in history as a turning point for the music industry. This is landmark stuff. I can't overestimate it!

الابتكار هو قول لا لألف شيء و شيء.

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.

Don't be trapped by dogma — which is living with the results of other people's thinking.

People think focus means saying yes to the thing you’ve got to focus on. But that’s not what it means at all. It means saying no to the hundred other good ideas that there are. You have to pick carefully. I’m actually as proud of the things we haven’t done as the things I have done. Innovation is saying no to 1,000 things.

There are folks here from 48 different countries.

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.

لقدت تعلمت بمرور الأعوام أنك ان كان لديك أشخاص رائعون فلست بحاجة إلى رعايتهم؛ فإذا توقعت أشياء عظيمة فستجعلم يفعلون أشياء عظيمة.