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25 of Steve Jobs’s Best Quotes

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25 of Steve

Jobs’s Best Quotes

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“I think if you do something and it turns out pretty good,

then you should go do something else wonderful, not dwell on it for too long. Just figure out what’s next.”

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“I want to put a ding in the universe.”

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“Quality is more important than

quantity. One home run is much better than two doubles.”

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“It’s more fun to be a pirate than to join the navy.” -1985

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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 just wanted to build the best thing we could build.” -1985

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“I’ve always wanted to own and control the primary technology in

everything we do.”

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“I'm the only person I know that's lost a quarter of a billion dollars in one year.... It's

very character-building.”

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“The most compelling reason for most people to buy a computer for the home will be to link it to a nationwide communications network. We’re just in the beginning

stages of what will be a truly remarkable breakthrough for most people––as remarkable as the telephone.” -1985

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“I’m convinced that about half of what separates the successful entrepreneurs from the non-

successful ones is pure perseverance.”

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“Innovation has nothing to do with how many R&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.”

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“Every once in a while a revolutionary product comes

along that changes everything.”

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“Do you want to spend the rest of your life selling sugared water or do you want a chance

to change the world?”

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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.”

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“The only problem with Microsoft is they just have no taste. They have

absolutely no taste…they don’t think of original ideas, and they

don’t bring much culture into their

products.”

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“Some people aren’t used to

an environment

where excellence is expected.”

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“We don’t get a chance to do that many things, and every one should be really excellent.

Because this is our life.”

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“When you’re a carpenter making a beautiful chest of drawers, you’re not going to use a piece of plywood on the back, even though it faces the wall and nobody will ever see it. You’ll know it’s there, so you’re going to use a beautiful piece of wood on the back. For you to sleep well at night, the aesthetic, the quality, has to be carried all the way through.”

-1985

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“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.” -1985

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“We made the buttons on the screen look so good you’ll want to lick them.”

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“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.” -1993

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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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“Innovation distinguishes between a leader and a

follower.”

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“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.” -2005

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“I mean, some people say, ‘Oh, God, if [Jobs] got run over by a bus, Apple would be in trouble.’ And, you know, I think it wouldn’t be a party, but there

are really capable people at Apple. My job is to make the whole executive team good enough to

be successors, so that’s what I try to do.”

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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.” -1985

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