Steve Jobs Quotes About Innovation

Quotes about: Innovation

• 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.

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

  Steve Jobs

  Inspirational, Life, Motivational

  Steve Jobs' Commencement Address at Stanford University, news.stanford.edu. June 14, 2005.

• I want to put a ding in the universe.

  Steve Jobs

  Inspirational, Motivational, Crush

  Steve Jobs (0101). “Motivating Thoughts of Steve Jobs”, p.87, Prabhat Prakashan

• Quality is more important than quantity. One home run is much better than two doubles.

  Steve Jobs

  Inspirational, Running, Teenager

• When you ask creative people how they did something, they feel a little guilty because they didn't really do it, they just saw something.

  Steve Jobs

  Creativity, Artist, Obvious Things

  Steve Jobs (0101). “Motivating Thoughts of Steve Jobs”, p.35, Prabhat Prakashan

• Innovation distinguishes between a leader and a follower.

  Steve Jobs

  Inspirational, Life, Motivational

• Creativity is just connecting things. When you ask creative people how they did something, they feel a little guilty because they didn't really do it, they just saw something. It seemed obvious to them after a while. That's because they were able to connect experiences they've had and synthesize new things.

  Steve Jobs

  Inspirational, Creativity, Artist

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

• For you to sleep well at night, the aesthetic, the quality, has to be carried all the way through.

  Steve Jobs

  Sleep, Night, Best Job

  Steve Jobs (0101). “Motivating Thoughts of Steve Jobs”, p.29, Prabhat Prakashan

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

  Steve Jobs

  Inspirational, Time, Money

  "Playboy Interview: Steve Jobs". Interview With David Sheff, genius.com. February 1, 1985.

• 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.

  Steve Jobs

  Love, Inspirational, Life

  Commencement Address at Stanford University, delivered 12 June 2005, Palo Alto, CA

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

  Steve Jobs

  Inspirational, Wisdom, Business

  "Steve Jobs, the Journey Is the Reward". Book by Jeffrey S. Young, 1988.

• 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.

  Steve Jobs

  Inspirational, Change, Success

  "Core Values: Apple Founder Steve Jobs". Interview with Brian Williams, www.nbclearn.com. May 25, 2006.

• You can't just ask customers what they want and then try to give that to them. By the time you get it built, they'll want something new.

  Steve Jobs

  Inspirational, Inspiring, Educational

  "The Entrepreneur of the Decade Award". Inc. Magazine, April 1, 1989.

• 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.

  Steve Jobs

  Motivational, Business, Work

• 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

• Design is a funny word. Some people think design means how it looks. But of course, if you dig deeper, it's really how it works.

  Steve Jobs

  Mean, Creativity, Thinking

  Steve Jobs (0101). “Motivating Thoughts of Steve Jobs”, p.37, Prabhat Prakashan

• If you haven't found it yet, keep looking.

  Steve Jobs

  Motivational, Inspirational Life, Hard Work

  Commencement Address at Stanford University, delivered 12 June 2005, Palo Alto, CA

• Things don't have to change the world to be important.

  Steve Jobs

  Inspirational, Change, Wisdom

  "Steve Jobs: The Next Insanely Great Thing". Interview With Gary Wolf, www.wired.com. February 1, 1996.

• Innovation distinguishes a leader from a follower.

  Steve Jobs

  Leader, Innovation, Followers

• 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.

  Steve Jobs

  Inspirational, Night, Thinking

  "The Seed of Apple's Innovation". Bloomberg interview, www.bloomberg.com. October 12, 2004.

• Innovation is the ability to see change as an opportunity - not a threat

  Steve Jobs

  Opportunity, Innovation, Threat

• You cannot mandate productivity, you must provide the tools to let people become their best.

  Steve Jobs

  Creativity, People, Innovation

  "Chairman Jobs? The Guessing Goes On", www.wired.com. July 31, 1997.

• the best innovation is sometimes the company, the way you organize the company

  Steve Jobs

  Innovation, Way, Sometimes

• I think the biggest innovations of the 21st century will be at the intersection of biology and technology. A new era is beginning.

  Steve Jobs

  Thinking, Technology, Innovation

  "Steve Jobs’s Dying Realization About Biology and Technology" by Luke Timmerman, www.xconomy.com. December 5, 2011.

• We're just enthusiastic about what we do.

  Steve Jobs

  Life Lesson, Innovation, Enthusiastic

  "Playboy Interview: Steve Jobs". Interview With David Sheff, reprints.longform.org. February 1985.

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