Quote by Steve Jobs 2

I have a great respect for incremental improvement, and I've done that sort of thing in my life, but I've

always been attracted to the more revolutionary changes. I don't know why. Because they're harder. They're much

more stressful emotionally. And you usually go through a period where everybody tells you that you've

completely failed.
Steve Jobs

I met Woz when I was 13, at a friend's garage. He was about 18. He was, like, the first person I met who knew

more electronics than I did at that point. We became good friends, because we shared an interest in computer

and we had a sense of humor. We pulled all kinds of pranks together.
Steve Jobs

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

I think right now it's a battle for the mindshare of developers and for the mindshare of customers, and right

now iPhone and Android are winning that battle.
Steve Jobs

I think we're having fun. I think our customers really like our products. And we're always trying to do better.
Steve Jobs

I want to put a ding in the universe.
Steve Jobs

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

I'm an optimist in the sense that I believe humans are noble and honorable, and some of them are really smart.

I have a very optimistic view of individuals.
Steve Jobs

I'm sorry, it's true. Having children really changes your view on these things. We're born, we live for a brief

instant, and we die. It's been happening for a long time. Technology is not changing it much - if at all.
Steve Jobs

I'm very excited about having the Internet in my den.
Steve Jobs

I've always wanted to own and control the primary technology in everything we do.
Steve Jobs

If you haven't found it yet, keep looking. Don't settle. As with all matters of the heart, you'll know when you

find it. And, like any great relationship, it just gets better and better as the years roll on.
Steve Jobs

In most people's vocabularies, design means veneer. It's interior decorating. It's the fabric of the curtains

and the sofa. But to me, nothing could be further from the meaning of design.
Steve Jobs

Innovation distinguishes between a leader and a follower.
Steve Jobs

Innovation has nothing to do with how many R amp&; D dollars you have. When Apple came up with the Mac, IBM was

spending at least 100 times more on R & D. It's not about money. It's about the people you have, how you're

led, and how much you get it.
Steve Jobs

It is piracy, not overt online music stores, which is our main competitor.
Steve Jobs

It takes these very simple-minded instructions - 'Go fetch a number, add it to this number, put the result

there, perceive if it's greater than this other number' - but executes them at a rate of, let's say, 1,000,000

per second. At 1,000,000 per second, the results appear to be magic.
Steve Jobs

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

It's hard to tell with these Internet startups if they're really interested in building companies or if they're

just interested in the money. I can tell you, though: If they don't really want to build a company, they won't

luck into it. That's because it's so hard that if you don't have a passion, you'll give up.
Steve Jobs

It's not a faith in technology. It's faith in people.
Steve Jobs

It's not about charisma and personality, it's about results and products and those very bedrock things that are

why people at Apple and outside of Apple are getting more excited about the company and what Apple stands for

and what its potential is to contribute to the industry.
Steve Jobs

It's not the tools that you have faith in - tools are just tools. They work, or they don't work. It's people

you have faith in or not. Yeah, sure, I'm still optimistic I mean, I get pessimistic sometimes but not for

long.
Steve Jobs

Japan's very interesting. Some people think it copies things. I don't think that anymore. I think what they do

is reinvent things. They will get something that's already been invented and study it until they thoroughly

understand it. In some cases, they understand it better than the original inventor.
Steve Jobs

Microsoft has had two goals in the last 10 years. One was to copy the Mac, and the other was to copy Lotus'

success in the spreadsheet - basically, the applications business. And over the course of the last 10 years,

Microsoft accomplished both of those goals. And now they are completely lost.
Steve Jobs

Most people have no concept of how an automatic transmission works, yet they know how to drive a car. You don't

have to study physics to understand the laws of motion to drive a car. You don't have to understand any of this

stuff to use Macintosh.
Steve Jobs

My favorite things in life don't cost any money. It's really clear that the most precious resource we all have

is time.
Steve Jobs

No one wants to die. Even people who want to go to heaven don't want to die to get there. And yet death is the

destination we all share. No one has ever escaped it. And that is as it should be, because Death is very likely

the single best invention of Life. It is Life's change agent. It clears out the old to make way for the new.
Steve Jobs

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

Older people sit down and ask, 'What is it?' but the boy asks, 'What can I do with it?'.
Steve Jobs

Our DNA is as a consumer company - for that individual customer who's voting thumbs up or thumbs down. That's

who we think about. And we think that our job is to take responsibility for the complete user experience. And

if it's not up to par, it's our fault, plain and simply.
Steve Jobs

Our goal is to make the best devices in the world, not to be the biggest.
Steve Jobs

Pointing is a metaphor we all know. We've done a lot of studies and tests on that, and it's much faster to do

all kinds of functions, such as cutting and pasting, with a mouse, so it's not only easier to use but more

efficient.
Steve Jobs

Pretty much, Apple and Dell are the only ones in this industry making money. They make it by being Wal-Mart. We

make it by innovation.
Steve Jobs

Remembering that I'll be dead soon is the most important tool I've ever encountered to help me make the big

choices in life. Because almost everything - all external expectations, all pride, all fear of embarrassment or

failure - these things just fall away in the face of death, leaving only what is truly important.
Steve Jobs

Remembering that you are going to die is the best way I know to avoid the trap of thinking you have something

to lose. You are already naked. There is no reason not to follow your heart.
Steve Jobs

So let's not use a stylus. We're going to use the best pointing device in the world. We're going to use a

pointing device that we're all born with - born with ten of them. We're going to use our fingers. We're going

to touch this with our fingers. And we have invented a new technology called multi-touch, which is phenomenal.

It works like magic.
Steve Jobs

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

Sometimes life hits you in the head with a brick. Don't lose faith.
Steve Jobs

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

your other innovations.
Steve Jobs

Quotes on Success

Formula for success: rise early, work hard, strike oil.
J. Paul Getty

How can they say my life is not a success? Have I not for more than sixty years got enough to eat and escaped being eaten?
Logan P. Smith

I couldn't wait for success, so I went ahead without it.
Jonathan Winters

I don't know the key to success, but the key to failure is trying to please everybody.
Bill Cosby

I honestly think it is better to be a failure at something you love than to be a success at something you hate.
George Burns

I've failed over and over and over again in my life and that is why I succeed.
Michael Jordan

If at first you don't succeed, try, try again. Then quit. There's no point in being a damn fool about it.
W. C. Fields


If you want to achieve things in life, you've just got to do them, and if you're talented and smart, you'll succeed.
Juliana Hatfield

In order to succeed you must fail, so that you know what not to do the next time.
Anthony J. D'Angelo

In order to succeed, your desire for success should be greater than your fear of failure.
Bill Cosby

In this world it is not what we take up, but what we give up, that makes us rich.
Henry Ward Beecher

It's not enough that I should succeed - others should fail.
David Merrick

It's our nature: Human beings like success but they hate successful people.
Carrot Top

Most people give up just when they're about to achieve success. They quit on the one yard line. They give up at the last minute of the game one foot from a winning touchdown.
Ross Perot

No man succeeds without a good woman behind him. Wife or mother, if it is both, he is twice blessed indeed.
Harold MacMillan

Nothing recedes like success.
Walter Winchell

Obedience is the mother of success and is wedded to safety.
Aeschylus

One secret of success in life is for a man to be ready for his opportunity when it comes.
Benjamin Disraeli

Pray that success will not come any faster than you are able to endure it.
Elbert Hubbard

Sometimes I worry about being a success in a mediocre world.
Lily Tomlin

Success consists of going from failure to failure without loss of enthusiasm.
Winston Churchill

Success has a simple formula: do your best, and people may like it.
Sam Ewing

Success in almost any field depends more on energy and drive than it does on intelligence. This explains why we have so many stupid leaders.
Sloan Wilson

Success is a lousy teacher. It seduces smart people into thinking they can't lose.
Bill Gates

Success is a science; if you have the conditions, you get the result.
Oscar Wilde

Success is blocked by concentrating on it and planning for it... Success is shy - it won't come out while you're watching.
Tennessee Williams

Success is dependent on effort.
Sophocles

Success is falling nine times and getting up ten.
Jon Bon Jovi

Success is getting what you want. Happiness is wanting what you get.
Dale Carnegie

Success is how high you bounce when you hit bottom.
George S. Patton

Success is like death. The more successful you become, the higher the houses in the hills get and the higer the fences get.
Kevin Spacey

Success is often the result of taking a misstep in the right direction.
Al Bernstein

Success is simple. Do what's right, the right way, at the right time.
Arnold H. Glasow

Success is simply a matter of luck. Ask any failure.
Earl Wilson

Success is that old ABC - ability, breaks, and courage.
Charles Luckman

Success is the one unpardonable sin against our fellows.
Ambrose Bierce

Success is the progressive realization of predetermined, worthwhile, personal goals.
Paul J. Meyer

Success is to be measured not so much by the position that one has reached in life as by the obstacles which he has overcome.
Booker T. Washington

Success isn't a result of spontaneous combustion. You must set yourself on fire.
Arnold H. Glasow

Success seems to be largely a matter of hanging on after others have let go.
William Feather

Success to me is having ten honeydew melons and eating only the top half of each slice.
Barbra Streisand

Success without honor is an unseasoned dish; it will satisfy your hunger, but it won't taste good.
Joe Paterno

The common idea that success spoils people by making them vain, egotistic and self-complacent is erroneous; on the contrary it makes them, for the most part, humble, tolerant and kind.
W. Somerset Maugham

The ladder of success is best climbed by stepping on the rungs of opportunity.
Ayn Rand

The man who has done his level best... is a success, even though the world may write him down a failure.
B. C. Forbes

The measure of success is not whether you have a tough problem to deal with, but whether it is the same problem you had last year.
John Foster Dulles

The most important single ingredient in the formula of success is knowing how to get along with people.
Theodore Roosevelt

The one phrase you can use is that success has a thousand fathers, and failure is an orphan.
Alan Price

The successful man will profit from his mistakes and try again in a different way.
Dale Carnegie

The thermometer of success is merely the jealousy of the malcontents.
Salvador Dali

The toughest thing about success is that you've got to keep on being a success.
Irving Berlin

There is only one success - to be able to spend your life in your own way.
Christopher Morley

Those who have succeeded at anything and don't mention luck are kidding themselves.
Larry King

Try not to become a man of success, but rather try to become a man of value.
Albert Einstein

What is success? I think it is a mixture of having a flair for the thing that you are doing; knowing that it is not enough, that you have got to have hard work and a certain sense of purpose.
Margaret Thatcher

Winning isn't everything, it's the only thing.
Vince Lombardi

Quotes By Steve Jobs

A lot of companies have chosen to downsize, and maybe that was the right thing for them. We chose a different path. Our belief was that if we kept putting great products in front of customers, they would continue to open their wallets.
Steve Jobs

A lot of people in our industry haven't had very diverse experiences. So they don't have enough dots to connect, and they end up with very linear solutions without a broad perspective on the problem. The broader one's understanding of the human experience, the better design we will have.
Steve Jobs

Again, you can't connect the dots looking forward; you can only connect them looking backwards. So you have to trust that the dots will somehow connect in your future. You have to trust in something - your gut, destiny, life, karma, whatever. This approach has never let me down, and it has made all the difference in my life.
Steve Jobs

An iPod, a phone, an internet mobile communicator... these are NOT three separate devices! And we are calling it iPhone! Today Apple is going to reinvent the phone. And here it is.
Steve Jobs

And it comes from saying no to 1,000 things to make sure we don't get on the wrong track or try to do too much. We're always thinking about new markets we could enter, but it's only by saying no that you can concentrate on the things that are really important.
Steve Jobs

And no, we don't know where it will lead. We just know there's something much bigger than any of us here.
Steve Jobs

And one more thing.
Steve Jobs

Apple's market share is bigger than BMW's or Mercedes's or Porsche's in the automotive market. What's wrong with being BMW or Mercedes?
Steve Jobs

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.
Steve Jobs

Be a yardstick of quality. Some people aren't used to an environment where excellence is expected.
Steve Jobs

Being the richest man in the cemetery doesn't matter to me. Going to bed at night saying we've done something wonderful, that's what matters to me.
Steve Jobs

Bottom line is, I didn't return to Apple to make a fortune. I've been very lucky in my life and already have one. When I was 25, my net worth was $100 million or so. I decided then that I wasn't going to let it ruin my life. There's no way you could ever spend it all, and I don't view wealth as something that validates my intelligence.
Steve Jobs

But Apple really beats to a different drummer. I used to say that Apple should be the Sony of this business, but in reality, I think Apple should be the Apple of this business.
Steve Jobs

But innovation comes from people meeting up in the hallways or calling each other at 10:30 at night with a new idea, or because they realized something that shoots holes in how we've been thinking about a problem.
Steve Jobs

Computers themselves, and software yet to be developed, will revolutionize the way we learn.
Steve Jobs

Creativity is just connecting things. When you ask creative people how they did something, they feel a little guilty because they didn't really do it, they just saw something. It seemed obvious to them after a while. That's because they were able to connect experiences they've had and synthesize new things.
Steve Jobs

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.
Steve Jobs

Design is not just what it looks like and feels like. Design is how it works.
Steve Jobs

Design is the fundamental soul of a man-made creation that ends up expressing itself in successive outer layers of the product or service. The iMac is not just the color or translucence or the shape of the shell. The essence of the iMac is to be the finest possible consumer computer in which each element plays together.
Steve Jobs

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

Everyone here has the sense that right now is one of those moments when we are influencing the future.
Steve Jobs

First was the mouse. The second was the click wheel. And now, we're going to bring multi-touch to the market. And each of these revolutionary interfaces has made possible a revolutionary product - the Mac, the iPod and now the iPhone.
Steve Jobs

For the past 33 years, I have looked in the mirror every morning and asked myself: 'If today were the last day of my life, would I want to do what I am about to do today?' And whenever the answer has been 'No' for too many days in a row, I know I need to change something.
Steve Jobs

For you to sleep well at night, the aesthetic, the quality, has to be carried all the way through.
Steve Jobs

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

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

I get asked a lot why Apple's customers are so loyal. It's not because they belong to the Church of Mac! That's ridiculous.
Steve Jobs