Steve Jobs Quotes - Page 14

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• The design of the Mac wasn't what it looked like, although that was part of it. Primarily, it was how it worked. To design something really well, you have to get it. You have to really grok what it's all about. It takes a passionate commitment to really thoroughly understand something, chew it up, not just quickly swallow it.

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  Commitment, Design, Passionate

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

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• We make tools for people. Tools to create, tools to communicate. The age we're living in, these tools surprise you. ... That's why I love what we do. Because we make these tools, and we're constantly surprised with what people do with them.

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  People, Age, Tools

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• Recruiting is hard. It's just finding the needles in the haystack. You can't know enough in a one-hour interview.

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  Interviews, Hours, Enough

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• The minute I dropped out I could stop taking the required classes that didn't interest me, and begin dropping in on the ones that looked interesting.

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  Class, Interesting, Dropping Out

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

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• The greatest artists like Dylan, Picasso and Newton risked failure. And if we want to be great, we've got to risk it, too.

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  Leadership, Artist, Risk

  "Embracing vulnerability at work is the key to employee engagement" by Monica Parker, www.theguardian.com. September 30, 2013.

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• It's rare that you see an artist in his 30s or 40s able to really contribute something amazing. Of course, there are some people who are innately curious, forever little kids in their awe of life, but they're rare.

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  Kids, Artist, People

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

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• The people who built Silicon Valley were engineers. They learned business, they learned a lot of different things, but they had a real belief that humans, if they worked hard with other creative, smart people, could solve most of humankind's problems. I believe that very much.

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  Real, Smart, Believe

  "Steve Jobs: the Next Insanely Great Thing". Interview with Wired, www.wired.com. February 1, 1996.

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• Ultimately, it comes down to taste. It comes down to trying to expose yourself to the best things that humans have done and then try to bring those things into what you're doing. Picasso had a saying: good artists copy, great artists steal. And we have always been shameless about stealing great ideas, and I think part of what made the Macintosh great was that the people working on it were musicians and poets and artists and zoologists and historians who also happened to be the best computer scientists in the world.

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  Inspiring, Memorable, Thinking

  "The Television Program Transcripts: Part III". www.pbs.org.

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• It gave a tremendous level of self-confidence, that through exploration and learning one could understand seemingly very complex things in one's environment.

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  Self Confidence, Levels, Environment

  "If We Don’t Let Our Children Play, Who Will Be the Next Steve Jobs?" by Darell Hammond, www.huffingtonpost.com. October 20, 2011.

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• It is hard to think that a $2 billion company with 4,300-plus people couldn't compete with six people in blue jeans.

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  Thinking, Blue, Jeans

  Newsweek, September 30, 1985.

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• To turn really interesting ideas and fledgling technologies into a company that can continue to innovate for years, it requires a lot of disciplines.

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  Success, Business, Technology

  "Speaking Out: Apple's and Pixar's Steve Jobs". Bloomberg interview, www.bloomberg.com. August 25, 2003.

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• 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.

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  Mean, Creativity, Thinking

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

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• As Regis Mckenna once said, the best marketing is education

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  Marketing, Said

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• Creativity is just connecting things.

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  Inspirational, Creativity, Connecting

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

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• After all the statistics and calculations are formulated, the one element that breathes life into marketing is good design.

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  Design, Marketing, Elements

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• When I hire somebody really senior, competence is the ante. They have to be really smart. But the real issue for me is, Are they going to fall in love with Apple? Because if they fall in love with Apple, everything else will take care of itself. They'll want to do what's best for Apple, not what's best for them, what's best for Steve, or anybody else.

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  Life, Senior, Falling In Love

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• These technologies can make life easier, can let us touch people we might not otherwise. You may have a child with a birth defect and be able to get in touch with other parents and support groups, get medical information, the latest experimental drugs. These things can profoundly influence life. I'm not downplaying that.

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  Children, Technology, Birth Defects

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• Simplicity is the ultimate sophistication-- Steve Jobs turned this into the slogan behind an early Mac advertising campaign. Which doesn't make it less true.

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  Jobs, Simplicity, Campaigns

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• At Apple, people are putting in 18-hour days. We attract a different type of person—a person who doesn’t want to wait five or ten years to have someone take a giant risk on him or her. Someone who really wants to get in a little over his head and make a little dent in the universe. We are aware that we are doing something significant. We’re here at the beginning of it and we’re able to shape how it goes. Everyone here has the sense that right now is one of those moments when we are influencing the future.

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  Apples, Years, People

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

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  Inspirational, Wisdom, Business

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

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• I'm convinced that about half of what separates the successful entrepreneurs from the non-successful ones is pure perseverance... Unless you have a lot of passion about this, you're not going to survive. You're going to give it up. So you've got to have an idea, or a problem or a wrong that you want to right that you're passionate about otherwise you're not going to have the perseverance to stick it through.

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  Perseverance, Passion, Successful

  "Learning to Use Tools". Interview with Daniel Morrow, americanhistory.si.edu. April 20, 1995.

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

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  Mean, Focus, Saying Yes

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

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• As individuals, people are inherently good. I have a somewhat more pessimistic view of people in groups. And I remain extremely concerned when I see what's happening in our country, which is in many ways the luckiest place in the world. We don't seem to be excited about making our country a better place for our kids.

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  Country, Kids, Views

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

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• I know from my own education that if I hadn't encountered two or three individuals that spent extra time with me, I'm sure I would have been in jail.

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  Two, Extra Time, Jail

  "Steve Jobs interview: One-on-one in 1995". Interview with Daniel Morrow, www.computerworld.com. October 6, 2011.

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• The over-all point is that new technology will not necessarily replace old technology, but it will date it. By definition. Eventually, it will replace it. But it's like people who had black-and-white TVs when color came out. They eventually decided whether or not the new technology was worth the investment.

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  Black And White, Technology, Color

  Steve Jobs (0101). “Motivating Thoughts of Steve Jobs”, p.82, Prabhat Prakashan

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