22 Quotes By Steve Jobs – The Man Behind Apple

Here are 22 famous quotes by Steve Jobs that will have you following your true calling in life, and to take risks where risks are due. Best known for being one of, if not, the greatest entrepreneur and inventor of our time, he was the co-founder, chairman, and CEO of Apple Inc.

A man who revolutionized the personal computer industry and many other consumer electronic fields, Steve Jobs had also co-founded Pixar Animation Studios which became one of the most successful animation studio in the world. A true pioneer that has changed the way our generation thinks and lives today.

R.I.P Steve Jobs (1950-2011)

22 Famous Inspirational Quotes By Steve Jobs

1 – “I’m convinced that about half of what separates the successful entrepreneurs from the non-successful ones is pure perseverance.”

• The one who never gives up is the one who has only one way out, and that is to find success.

2 – “Deciding what not to do is as important as deciding what to do.”

• By the time you’ve decided, you could have already done so. Don’t wait, do.

3 – “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.”

• Simplify your mind. The most simple ideas or inventions end up being the most successful.

4 – “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.”

•  Almost every employee will leave as soon as they can, because they realize that it’s not worth their extra minute to stay any longer. Avoid being stuck in a job you hate doing.

5 – “Remembering that I’ll be dead soon is the most important tool I’ve ever encountered to help me make the big choices in life. Because almost everything – all external expectations, all pride, all fear of embarrassment or failure – these things just fall away in the face of death, leaving only what is truly important.”

• Try to envision the moment you may die. Now, come back to the present. Do you want the best life you could possibly live? Or one that breeds depression, sadness, and constant misery? The choice, and risk, is yours.

6 – “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.”

• Money is never the answer to all your problems in life. Find the things that bring you happiness that money could never buy.

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

• Hardly ever are you expected to perform at a high level of excellence, but if you do, you’ll be pleasantly surprised at the opportunities that await.

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.”

• If at the end of the day, you are not drained from your days work, you will have found your true calling in life.

9 – “Sometimes when you innovate, you make mistakes. It is best to admit them quickly, and get on with improving your other innovations.”

• Life is like a race, and mistakes happen when you fall flat on your face. The one who comes out the winner, in the end, will be the one who picks himself up the fastest.

10 – “Remembering that you are going to die is the best way I know to avoid the trap of thinking you have something to lose. You are already naked. There is no reason not to follow your heart.”

• Most of us are so afraid to die, that we’ll never get to experience life to the slightest. But those who aren’t afraid to die are more afraid to live a mediocre life than anything else in the world.

11 – “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.”

• For every Yin, there’s a Yang. After every storm, is a sun to brighten up your day.

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

• If you had a nickle for every brick that hit you in the head, you would retire at a very young age; but so would everyone else.

13 - “It’s hard to tell with these Internet startups if they’re really interested in building companies or if they’re just interested in the money. I can tell you, though: If they don’t really want to build a company, they won’t luck into it. That’s because it’s so hard that if you don’t have a passion, you’ll give up.”

• Where there is money, there is most surely some competition to follow. And if your competitors love what they do and you don’t, it’s only a matter of time before the bus runs you over.

14 – “Let’s go invent tomorrow instead of worrying about what happened yesterday.”

• Do not burden yourself with not only the problems of today, but the worries of yesterday.

15 – “If you really look closely, most overnight successes took a long time.”

• Success is a quiet, daily set of tasks. Nothing ever happens overnight (maybe the lottery).

16 – “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.”

• Whatever you’ve done up to this point, is working, and that’s a fact. Now, are you satisfied with the results? If not, start over and change the outcome!

17 – “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.”

• Any athlete would love to be the next Michael Jordan, Michael Phelps, Tiger Woods, Wayne Gretzky, Muhammad Ali, or Roger Federer, but no one wants to work at it to achieve that goal. There is rarely any instant gratification when it comes to success.

18 – “For the past 33 years, 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.”

• The mirror is your best friend. If you want an honest and straight-forward evaluation of your life at that present monent, look not further than to find the closest mirror near you.

19 – “Your time is limited, so don’t waste it living someone else’s life. Don’t be trapped by dogma – which is living with the results of other people’s thinking. Don’t let the noise of others’ opinions drown out your own inner voice. And most important, have the courage to follow your heart and intuition. They somehow already know what you truly want to become. Everything else is secondary.”

• I found that whenever I listened to someone other than myself, I ended up being in a worse off place than when I had begun.

20 – “If you keep your eye on the profit, you’re going to skimp on the product. But if you focus on making really great products, then the profits will follow.”

• Chase the dog, and the dog will run from you. But chase the rainbow, and the dog will gladly follow. (Try it!)

21 - “Here’s to the crazy ones – the misfits, the rebels, the troublemakers, the round pegs in the square holes. The ones who see things differently – they’re not fond of rules. You can quote them, disagree with them, glorify or vilify them, but the only thing you can’t do is ignore them because they change things. They push the human race forward, and while some may see them as the crazy ones, we see genius, because the ones who are crazy enough to think that they can change the world, are the ones who do.”

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22 - “Stay hungry, stay foolish.”

• And stay motivated!

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