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Friday 7 October 2011

Steve Jobs quotes

Here are a few of quotes from Steve Jobs that are included in the book which you may not have heard before:


Let’s go invent tomorrow rather than worrying about what happened yesterday.”
D5 Conference: All Things Digital, May 30, 2007


Quality is more important than quantity. One home run is much better than two doubles.”
Bloomberg Businessweek, February 6, 2006


Innovation distinguishes between a leader and a follower.”
The Innovation Secrets of Steve Jobs, 2011


The problem is, in hardware you can’t build a computer that’s twice as good as anyone else’s anymore. Too many people know how to do it. You’re lucky if you do one that’s one-and-a-third times better or one-and-a-half times better. And
then it’s only six months before everybody else catches up.”
—Rolling Stone, June 16, 1994


What a computer is to me is the most remarkable tool that we have ever come up with. It’s the equivalent of a bicycle for our minds.”
Memory & Imagination, 1990


‘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.’
CNNMoney/Fortune, May 25, 1993


One of the reasons I think Microsoft took ten years to copy the Mac is ‘cause they didn’t really get it at its core.
Rolling Stone, June 16, 1994


Your time is limited, so don’t waste it living someone else’s life. Don’t be trapped by dogma—which is living with the results of other people’s thinking. Don’t let the noise of others’ opinions drown our your own inner voice. And most important, have the courage to follow your heart and intuition. They somehow already know what you truly want to become. Everything else is secondary.”
Commencement address, Stanford University, June 12, 2005


The only problem with Microsoft is they just have no taste. I don’t mean that in a small way. I mean that in a big way, in the sense that they don’t think of original ideas and they don’t bring much culture into their products. I have no problem with their success—they’ve earned their success for the most part. I have a problem with the fact that they just make really third-rate products.”
Triumph of the Nerds, PBS, June 1996


I get 50 cents a year for showing up…and the other 50 cents is based on my performance.
AppleInsider.com, May 10, 2007


Do you want to sell sugar water for the rest of your life, or do you want to come with me and change the world?" -- Steve Jobs' pitch to John Sculley, the Pepsi-Cola CEO Jobs brought on to run Apple (Sculley later pushed Jobs out of Apple)
There's an old Wayne Gretzky quote that I love. 'I skate to where the puck is going to be, not where it has been.' And we've always tried to do that at Apple. Since the very very beginning. And we always will."
"My model for business is The Beatles: They were four guys that kept each other's negative tendencies in check; they balanced each other. And the total was greater than the sum of the parts. Great things in business are not done by one person, they are done by a team of people."
None. It’s not the consumers’ job to know what they want.” -- Jobs responding to whether he did market research for the iPad
"I’m the only person I know that’s lost a quarter of a billion dollars in one year…. It’s very character-building."
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." -- Jobs commencement speech at Stanford in 2005



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