Steve Jobs Quotes

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

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

المرء لا يجب أن يُنشئ شركة لمجرد تحقيق الثراء. بل إن هدفك يجب أن يكون تحقيق شيء تؤمن به وتأسيس شركة تستمر للأبد

I bleed in six colors.

Innovation distinguishes between a leader and a follower.

The goal is not to be the richest man in the cemetery.

You can't connect the dots looking forward; you can only connect them looking backward. So 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

There’s lots of ways to be as a person, and some people express their deep appreciation in different ways, but one of the ways that I believe people express their appreciation to the rest of humanity is to make something wonderful and put it out there.

And you never meet the people, you never shake their hands, you never hear their story or tell yours, but somehow, in the act of making something with a great deal of care and love, something is transmitted there.

And it’s a way of expressing to the rest of our species our deep appreciation. So, we need to be true to who we are and remember what’s really important to us. That's what's going to keep Apple Apple: is if we keep us us.

When You Need A Miracle, Be Miracle

If you're gonna make connections which are innovative, you have to not have the same bag of experience as everyone else does.

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.

To seek permission is to seek denial.

I think money is a wonderful thing because it enables you to do things. It enables you to invest in ideas that don't have a short-term payback.

It doesn't make sense to hire smart people and tell them what to do.

I didn't see it then, but it turned out that 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, less sure about everything. It freed me to enter one of the most creative periods of my life.

Stay hungry, stay foolish