Steve Jobs Quotes

American entrepreneur; co-founder of Apple Inc. (1955-2011)

Steven Paul Jobs (24 February 1955 – 5 October 2011) was the Chairman and CEO of Apple Inc., a company he founded with Steve Wozniak in 1976. He was also the CEO of Pixar Animation Studios until it was acquired by the Walt Disney Company in 2006. Jobs was the Walt Disney Company's largest individual shareholder and a former member of its Board of Directors. He is considered to have been a leading figure in both the computer and entertainment industries.

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Birth Name: Abdul Lateef Jandali

Alternative Names: Steven Paul Jobs • Steven Jobs • T. Lateef

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The older I get, the more I see how much motivations matter. The Zune was crappy because the people at Microsoft don't really love music or art the way we do. We won because we personally love music. We mad e the iPod for ourselves, and when you're doing something for yourself, or your best friend or family, you're not going to cheese out. If you don't love something, you're not going to go the extra mile, work the extra weekend, challenge the status quo as much.

I want to make a dent in the universe

You can’t connect the dots looking forward, you can only connect them looking backwards.” —

We’re always talking about following your passion. But we’re all part of the flow of history… you’ve got to put something back into the flow of history that’s going to help your community…People will say, this person didn’t just have a passion, he cared about making something that other people could benefit from.

Your time on this earth is limited, don’t live someone else's life, live by your vision

Computers themselves, and software yet to be developed, will revolutionize the way we learn.

In your life you only get to do so many things and right now we’ve chosen to do this, so let’s make it great.

Put a dent in the universe.

I didn’t invent the language or mathematics I used. I make little of my one food, none of my own clothes. Everything I do depends on other members of our species and the shoulders that we stand on. And a lot of us want to contribute something back to our species and to add something to the flow. It’s about trying to express something in the only way that most of us know how because we can’t write Bob Dylan songs or Tom Stoppard plays. We try to use the talents we do have to express our deep feelings, to show our appreciation of all the contributions that came before us, and to add something to that flow. That’s what has driven me.

Don't sweat for small stuff

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.

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

Every child should learn to program a computer because it will teach you how to think.

Sometimes life hits you in the head with a brick. Don't lose faith.

Eat your food as your medicine. Otherwise, you have to eat medicine as your food.