Steve Jobs Quotes About Running

Quotes about: Running

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

  Steve Jobs

  Inspirational, Running, Teenager

• If you want to hire great people and have them stay, you have to be run by ideas, not hierarchy. The best ideas have to win.

  Steve Jobs

  Running, Winning, Ideas

• There’s a temptation in our networked age to think that ideas can be developed by email and iChat. That’s crazy. Creativity comes from spontaneous meetings, from random discussions. You run into someone, you ask what they’re doing, you say ‘wow,’ and soon you’re cooking up all sorts of ideas.

  Steve Jobs

  Running, Crazy, Creativity

  "Steve Jobs". Book by Walter Isaacson, www.businessinsider.com. 2011.

• A small team of A+ players can run circles around a giant team of B and C players.

  Steve Jobs

  Running, Team, Player

• There are times when you run a marathon and you wonder, Why am I doing this? But you take a drink of water, and around the next bend, you get your wind back, remember the finish line, and keep going.

  Steve Jobs

  Running, Bad Day, Wind

• Why would I ever want to run Disney? Wouldn't it make more sense just to sell them Pixar and retire?

  Steve Jobs

  Running, Want, Pixar

  As quoted in Fortune, February 23, 2004.

• We don't get a chance to do that many things, and every one should be really excellent. Because this is our life. Life is brief, and then you die, you know? So this is what we've chosen to do with our life. We could be sitting in a monastery somewhere in Japan. We could be out sailing. Some of the team could be playing golf. They could be running other companies. And we've all chosen to do this with our lives. So it better be damn good. It better be worth it. And we think it is.

  Steve Jobs

  Running, Team, Creativity

• Companies, as they grow to become multi-billion-dollar entities, somehow lose their vision. They insert lots of layers of middle management between the people running the company and the people doing the work. They no longer have an inherent feel or a passion about the products. The creative people, who are the ones who care passionately, have to persuade five layers of management to do what they know is the right thing to do.

  Steve Jobs

  Running, Business, Passion

• I mean, some people say, 'Oh, God, if [Jobs] got run over by a bus, Apple would be in trouble.' And, you know, I think it wouldn't be a party, but there are really capable people at Apple. My job is to make the whole executive team good enough to be successors, so that's what I try to do.

  Steve Jobs

  Life, Running, Jobs

  "Steve Jobs speaks out". archive.fortune.com. March 7, 2008.

• If I were running Apple, I would milk the Macintosh for all it's worth - and get busy on the next great thing. The PC wars are over. Done. Microsoft won a long time ago.

  Steve Jobs

  Life, Running, War

  "Steve Jobs obituary" by Jack Schofield, October 5, 2011.

• I try to get people to see what I have. . . . When you run a computer company, you have to get people to buy into your dreams.

  Steve Jobs

  Running, Dream, People

• This revolution, the information revoultion, is a revolution of free energy as well, but of another kind: free intellectual energy. It's very crude today, yet our Macintosh computer takes less power than a 100-watt bulb to run it and it can save you hours a day. What will it be able to do ten or 20 years from now, or 50 years from now?

  Steve Jobs

  Running, Years, Intellectual

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

• The unions are the worst thing that ever happened to education because it's not a meritocracy. It turns into a bureaucracy, which is exactly what has happened. The teachers can't teach and administrators run the place and nobody can be fired. It's terrible.

  Steve Jobs

  Running, Teacher, Unions

• When the sales guys run the company, the product guys do not matter so much, and a lot of them just turn off.

  Steve Jobs

  Running, Guy, Matter

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