Steve Jobs Quotes - Page 21

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• I didn't see it then, but it turned out that getting fired from Apple was the best thing that could have ever happened to me. The heaviness of being successful was replaced by the lightness of being a beginner again, less sure about everything. It freed me to enter one of the most creative periods of my life.

  Steve Jobs

  Inspirational, Success, Creativity

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

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• 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

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• Of course, we can not connect imprint future, you can just hook them to look back. So rest assured that the dots, the events in your life in one way or another will affect your future. You have to have faith in something - the courage, destiny, life, destiny or whatever - thinking that has made the difference in my life

  Steve Jobs

  Destiny, Thinking, Differences

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• So when these people sell out, even though they get fabulously rich, they're gypping themselves out of one of the potentially most rewarding experiences of their unfolding lives. Without it, they may never know their values or how to keep their newfound wealth in perspective.

  Steve Jobs

  Business, People, Perspective

  Steve Jobs (0101). “Motivating Thoughts of Steve Jobs”, p.68, Prabhat Prakashan

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• We think the Mac will sell zillions, but we didn't build the Mac for anybody else. We built it for ourselves. We were the group of people who were going to judge whether it was great or not. We weren't going to go out and do market research. We just wanted to build the best thing we could build.

  Steve Jobs

  Thinking, Best Job, People

  "Steve Jobs Lays It Down For Playboy". Playboy interview, gizmodo.com. July 15, 2011.

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• The desktop metaphor was invented because one, you were a stand-alone device, and two, you had to manage your own storage. That's a very big thing in a desktop world. And that may go away. You may not have to manage your own storage. You may not store much before too long.

  Steve Jobs

  Two, Long, Going Away

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

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• The creative industries tend to dismiss technology as just something to buy and not understand how hard it is and how creative it can be as well.

  Steve Jobs

  Technology, Creative, Wells

  Source: www.esquire.com

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• I got very interested in people who had discovered something more significant than ... intellectual, abstract understanding.

  Steve Jobs

  People, Understanding, Intellectual

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• The seven-inch tablets are tweeners: too big to compete with a smartphone, and too small to compete with an iPad.

  Steve Jobs

  Smartphones, Ipads, Tablets

  "Steve Jobs: why Android isn't open, and we won't build a 7" iPad" by Charles Arthur, www.theguardian.com. October 19, 2010.

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• That's always been in my mind my metaphor for a team working really hard on something they're passionate about. It's that through the team, through that group of incredibly talented people bumping up against each other, having arguments, having fights sometimes, making some noise, and working together they polish each other and they polish the ideas, and what comes out are these really beautiful stones.

  Steve Jobs

  Beautiful, Team, Fighting

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• My mother taught me to read before I went to school, so I was pretty bored in school, and I turned into a little terror. You should have seen us in third grade. We basically destroyed our teacher. We would let snakes loose in the classroom and explode bombs.

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  Mother, Teacher, School

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

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• I don't think I've ever worked so hard on something, but working on Macintosh was the neatest experience of my life. Almost everyone who worked on it will say that. None of us wanted to release it at the end. It was as though we knew that once it was out of our hands, it wouldn't be ours anymore.

  Steve Jobs

  Thinking, Hands, Release

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

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• You know, you keep on innovating, you keep on making better stuff. And if you always want the latest and greatest, then you have to buy a new iPod at least once a year.

  Steve Jobs

  Years, Ipods, Want

  "Steve Jobs on Innovation". Interview With Brian Williams, www.nbclearn.com. October 06, 2011.

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• Apple's goal isn't to make money. Our goal is to design and develop and bring to market good products... We trust as a consequence of that, people will like them, and as another consequence, we'll make some money. But we're really clear about what our goals are.

  Steve Jobs

  Apples, People, Goal

  "24 Quotes From The Genius Behind Apple" by Michael Cramton, www.huffingtonpost.com. August 25, 2011.

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• Woz and I started Apple in my parents' garage when I was 20. We worked hard, and in 10 years Apple had grown from just the two of us in a garage into a $2 billion company with over 4,000 employees.

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  Years, Two, Apples

  "Steve Jobs: Apple founder's moving speech on why being fired from tech giant was the best thing to happen". www.independent.co.uk. February 24, 2016.

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• Most people make the mistake of thinking design is what it looks like. People think it's this veneer - that the designers are handed this box and told, 'Make it look good!' That's not what we think design is. It's not just what it looks like and feels like. Design is how it works.

  Steve Jobs

  Mistake, Thinking, People

  "The Guts of a New Machine" by Rob Walker, www.nytimes.com. November 30, 2003.

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• We believe people with Passion CAN change the World for the Better." -Steve Jobs

  Steve Jobs

  Jobs, Believe, Passion

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• Apple has some tremendous assets, but I believe without some attention, the company could, could, could - I'm searching for the right word - could, could die.

  Steve Jobs

  Life, Believe, Apples

  "Steve Jobs, in His Own Words", www.foxnews.com. October 5, 2011.

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• The subscription model of buying music is bankrupt. I think you could make available the Second Coming in a subscription model and it might not be successful.

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  Stupid, Successful, Thinking

  "Steve Jobs: Rolling Stone's 2003 Interview". Interview with Jeff Goodell, www.rollingstone.com. October 06, 2011.

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• I admire Mark Zuckerberg... for not selling out, for wanting to make a company. I admire that a lot.

  Steve Jobs

  Zuckerberg, Selling, Mark

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• I make 50 cents for showing up... and the other 50 cents is based on my performance.

  Steve Jobs

  Showing Up, Cents, Performances

  Steve Jobs (0101). “Motivating Thoughts of Steve Jobs”, p.30, Prabhat Prakashan

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• [My teacher] basically bribed me back into learning with candy and money and what was really remarkable was before very long I had such a respect for her that it sort of re-ignited my desire to learn.

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  Teacher, Long, Desire

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• I'll always stay connected with Apple. I hope that throughout my life I'll sort of have the thread of my life and the thread of Apple weave in and out of each other, like a tapestry. There may be a few years when I'm not there, but I'll always come back.

  Steve Jobs

  Years, Best Job, Apples

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

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• You've heard of plug-and-play. This is plug, unplug and play. It's so simple to use, it's unbelievable.

  Steve Jobs

  Simple, Play, Ipods

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• Each year has been so robust with problems and successes and learning experiences and human experienes that a year is a lifetime at Apple. So this has been ten lifetimes.

  Steve Jobs

  Years, Apples, Problem

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