Steve Jobs Quotes About Focus

Quotes about: Focus

• 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.

  Steve Jobs

  Change, Inspiring, Life Changing

  "The 13 Most Memorable Quotes From Steve Jobs" by Dylan Love, www.businessinsider.com. October 5, 2011.

• 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.

  Steve Jobs

  Inspirational, Business, Eye

• Simple can be harder than complex. You have to work hard to get your thinking clean to make it simple.

  Steve Jobs

  Change, Life Changing, Hard Work

  "Steve Jobs quotes: the man in his own words", www.theguardian.com. October 6, 2011.

• Focus is about saying, No. And the result of that focus is going to be some really great products where the total is much greater than the sum of the parts.

  Steve Jobs

  Focus, Saying No, Strategy

  "Jobs: 'Focus Is About Saying No'" by Erick Schonfeld, techcrunch.com. October 6, 2011.

• 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.

  Steve Jobs

  Inspiring, Mean, Thinking

  Steve Jobs (0101). “Motivating Thoughts of Steve Jobs”, p.44, Prabhat Prakashan

• That's been one of my mantras - focus and simplicity. Simple can be harder than complex.

  Steve Jobs

  Inspirational, Change, Life Changing

  Steve Jobs (0101). “Motivating Thoughts of Steve Jobs”, p.44, Prabhat Prakashan

• It's really hard to design products by focus groups. A lot of times, people don't know what they want until you show it to them.

  Steve Jobs

  Inspiring, Technology, Best Job

  "Steve Jobs: `There's Sanity Returning'". Bloomberg interview, www.bloomberg.com. May 25, 1998.

• Somebody once told me, ‘Manage the top line, and the bottom line will follow.’ What's the top line? It's things like, why are we doing this in the first place? What's our strategy? What are customers saying? How responsive are we? Do we have the best products and the best people? Those are the kind of questions you have to focus on.

  Steve Jobs

  People, Focus, Lines

  Steve Jobs (0101). “Motivating Thoughts of Steve Jobs”, p.86, Prabhat Prakashan

• Focusing is about saying No.

  Steve Jobs

  Inspirational, Swimming, Power

  "Steve Jobs: seven lessons from Apple's founder" by Frédéric Filloux, www.theguardian.com. October 10, 2011.

• Focus and simplicity...once you get there, you can move mountains.

  Steve Jobs

  Life Lesson, Moving, Simple

• We have never worried about numbers. In the marketplace, Apple is trying to focus the spotlight on products, because products really make a difference. You can't con people in this business. The products speak for themselves.

  Steve Jobs

  Apples, Numbers, People

• You are all over the map, figure out the top 5 things you want to focus on and get rid of the rest.

  Steve Jobs

  Focus, Maps, Want

• Focus does not mean saying yes, it means saying no.

  Steve Jobs

  Mean, Focus, Saying Yes

  "Steve Jobs, 1955 – 2011" by Steven Levy, www.wired.com. October 5, 2011.

• What had been the focus of my entire adult life was gone, and it was devastating. I didn't really know what to do for a few months. I felt that I had let the previous generation of entrepreneurs down. I was a very public failure.

  Steve Jobs

  Focus, Entrepreneur, Adults

  "'You've Got to Find What You Love,' Jobs Says". Commencement address at Stanford, news.stanford.edu. June 12, 2005.

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