Steve Jobs Quotes

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Life Quotes

If you live each day as if it was your last, someday you’ll most certainly be right.

—Steve Jobs

Image, Digital hub (center of our universe) is moving from PC to cloud

Picture Quotes

digital hub (center of our universe) is moving from PC to cloud - PC now just another client alongside iPhone, iPad, iPod touch, ... - Apple is in danger of hanging on to old paradigm too long (innovator's dilemma) - Google and Microsoft are further along on the technology, but haven't quite figured it out yet - tie all of our products together, so we further lock customers into our ecosystem

—Steve Jobs

Picture Quotes

Let them know precisely what you are going to do with their data

—Steve Jobs

Image, It took us three years to build the NeXT computer. If we’d

Picture Quotes

It took us three years to build the NeXT computer. If we'd given customers what they said they wanted, we'd have built a computer they'd have been happy with a year after we spoke to them - not something they'd want now.

—Steve Jobs

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Image, The Macintosh was supposed to be the computer for people that just

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The Macintosh was supposed to be the computer for people that just wanted to use a computer without having to learn how to use one.

—Steve Jobs

Image, Now, we are selling over 5 million songs a day now. Isn’t that

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Now, we are selling over 5 million songs a day now. Isn't that unbelievable? That's 58 songs every second of every minute of every hour of every day.

—Steve Jobs

Image, You are all over the map, figure out the top 5 things you

Picture Quotes

You are all over the map, figure out the top 5 things you want to focus on and get rid of the rest.

—Steve Jobs

Image, I think it’s brought the world a lot closer together, and will

Picture Quotes

I think it's brought the world a lot closer together, and will continue to do that. There are downsides to everything; there are unintended consequences to everything. The most corrosive piece of technology that I've ever seen is called television - but then, again, television, at its best, is magnificent.

—Steve Jobs

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Image, People equated burning CDs with theft. That’s not what burning CDs is.

Picture Quotes

People equated burning CDs with theft. That's not what burning CDs is. Theft is about acquiring the music from the Internet.

—Steve Jobs

Picture Quotes

I'm as proud of what we don't do as I am of what we do.

—Steve Jobs

Image, When the sales guys run the company, the product guys do not

Picture Quotes

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

Image, I don’t think I’ve ever worked so hard on something, but working

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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

Image, That’s what Walt Disney did, and Hewlett and Packard, and the people

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That's what Walt Disney did, and Hewlett and Packard, and the people who built Intel. They created a company to last, not just to make money. That's what I want Apple to be."

—Steve Jobs

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Image, The Japanese have hit the shores like dead fish. They’re just like

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The Japanese have hit the shores like dead fish. They're just like dead fish washing up on the shores.

—Steve Jobs

Image, You can’t just ask customers what they want and then try to

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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

Image, I think Pixar has the opportunity to be the next Disney —

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I think Pixar has the opportunity to be the next Disney -- not replace Disney -- but be the next Disney.

—Steve Jobs

Image, If I had never dropped in on that single course in college,

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If I had never dropped in on that single course in college, the Mac would have never had multiple typefaces or proportionally spaced fonts. And since Windows just copied the Mac, it's likely that no personal computer would have them. If I had never dropped out, I would have never dropped in on this calligraphy class, and personal computers might not have the wonderful typography that they do. Of course it was impossible to connect the dots looking forward when I was in college. But it was very, very clear looking backward 10 years later.