Be a yardstick of quality. Some people aren't used to an environment where excellence is expected.
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.
Innovation distinguishes between a leader and a follower.
If you are working on something exciting that you really care about, you don't have to be pushed. The vision pulls you.
You have to be burning with "an idea, or a problem, or a wrong that you want to right." If you're not passionate enough from the start, you'll never stick it out.
The people who are doing the work are the moving force behind the Macintosh. My job is to create a space for them, to clear out the rest of the organization and keep it at bay.
Everything around you that you call life was made up by people that were no smarter than you and you can change it, you can influence it, you can build your own things that other people can use.
I would rather gamble on our vision than make a 'me, too' product.
The greatest artists like Dylan, Picasso and Newton risked failure. And if we want to be great, we've got to risk it, too.
My job is not to be easy on people. My job is to take these great people we have and to push them and make them even better.
Do you want to sell sugar water all your life, or do you want to come with me and change the world?
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.
We've got to make the small things unforgettable.
I'm not dismissing the value of higher education; I'm simply saying it comes at the expense of experience.
You've got to have a problem that you want to solve; a wrong that you want to right.
Making an enduring company was both harder and more important than making a great product.
It [what you choose to do] has got to be something that you're passionate about because otherwise you won't have the perseverance to see it through.
It comes down to trying to expose yourself to the best things humans have done. And then try to bring those things in to what you're doing.
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