Best Steve Jobs Quotes
Steve Jobs Quotes About Death, Life, Success, Work, Leadership, Passion, Change the World & Family! Steve Jobs rose to prominence as one of the most well-respected business leaders and innovators in history. In the year of our Lord, 1955, in San Francisco, a boy named Steve Jobs was born. In 1976, he and Steve Wozniak founded Apple together. It all began in the garage of Steve Jobs’ parents, where they built the Apple I computer.
Steve Jobs became well known and wealthy when the Apple II sold 2 million devices globally quickly. Steve Jobs appointed John Sculley as CEO of Apple as the company expanded under his leadership. However, Steve was dismissed from his own company in 1985 after a long power struggle with Sculley.
NeXT and Pixar were founded during this time by Jobs. Toy Story, the first computer-animated feature picture from Pixar, was a huge commercial success. The acquisition of NeXT by Apple 12 years later brought Jobs back to Apple as CEO.
The iMac, the iPod, the iPhone, and the iPad were all developed and launched under his leadership, making Apple the most valuable corporation in the world during his keynote speeches. Apple has been ranked as the most respected company in the United States. C-workers say that Jobs was a demanding taskmaster and temperamental, yet his managerial style has been considered motivating.
As Apple’s CEO, Steve Jobs earned just $1 million. However, Apple and Disney stock options earned him an estimated wealth of $8.3billion. He introduced the iPhone and iPad keynotes personally during this period. Unfortunately, on October 5, 2011, he passed away in his Palo Alto, California, residence at 56.
Best Steve Jobs Quotes
1. “I’m a tool builder. That’s how I think of myself. I want to build really good tools that I know in my gut and my heart will be valuable. And then, whatever happens, is… you can’t really predict exactly what will happen, but you can feel the direction that we’re going. And that’s about as close as you can get. Then you just standback and get out of the way, and these things take on a life of their own.”-Steve Jobs
2. On starting Apple with Steve Wozniak: “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 4000 employees.”-Steve Jobs
3. “I’m a long-term kind of person.”-Steve Jobs
4. “Fortunately, my training has been in doing things that take a long time. You know? I was at Apple 10 years. I would have preferred to be there the rest of my life. So I’m a long-term kind of person.”-Steve Jobs
5. “I have been trained to think in units of time that are measured in several years. With what I’ve chosen to do with my life, you know, even a small thing takes a few years. To do anything of magnitude takes at least five years, more likely seven or eight. Rightfully or wrongfully, that’s how I think.”-Steve Jobs
6. “I remember many late nights coming out of the Mac building when I would have the most incredibly powerful feelings about my life.”-Steve Jobs
7. “My model for business is The Beatles. They were four guys who kept each other’s kind of negative tendencies in check. They balanced each other, and the total was greater than the sum of the parts. That’s how I see business: great things in business are never done by one person, they’re done by a team of people.”-Steve Jobs
8. “My dream is that every person in the world will have their own Apple computer. To do that, we’ve got to be a great marketing company.”-Steve Jobs
9. “I’ll tell you what our goal is: our goal is to make the best personal computers in the world and to make products we are proud to sell and recommend to our family and friends, and, we want to do that at the lowest price we can.”-Steve Jobs
10. “None of the really bright people I knew in college went into politics. They all sensed that, in terms of making a change in the world, politics wasn’t the place to be in the late Sixties and Seventies. All of them are in business now, which is funny, because they were the same people who trekked off to India or who tried in one way or another to find some sort of truth about life.”-Steve Jobs
11. “We used to dream about this stuff. Now we get to build it. It’s pretty great.”-Steve Jobs
12. “I think this is the start of something really big. Sometimes that first step is the hardest one, and we’ve just taken it.”-Steve Jobs
13. “The smallest company in the world can look as large as the largest company on the web.”-Steve Jobs
14. “One of the keys to Apple is Apple’s an incredibly collaborative company. You know how many committees we have at Apple? Zero. We have no committees. We are organized like a start-up. One person’s in charge of iPhone OS software, one person’s in charge of Mac hardware, one person’s in charge of iPhone hardware engineering, another person’s in charge of worldwide marketing, another person’s in charge of operations. We are organized like a startup. We are the biggest startup on the planet.”-Steve Jobs
15. “Another priority was to make Apple more entrepreneurial and startup-like. So we immediately reorganized, drastically narrowed the product line, and changed compensation for senior managers so they get a lot of stock but no cash bonuses. The upshot is that the place feels more like a young company.”-Steve Jobs
16. “But it’s a disservice to constantly put things in this radical new light – that it’s going to change everything.-Steve Jobs Things don’t have to change the world to be important.”
17. “We are aware that we are doing something significant. We’re here at the beginning of it and we’re able to shape how it goes.”-Steve Jobs
18. “No, we don’t know where it will lead. We just know there’s something much bigger than any of us here.”-Steve Jobs
19. “Most of the time, we’re taking things. Neither you nor I made the clothes we wear; we don’t make the food or grow the foods we eat; we use a language that was developed by other people; we use another society’s mathematics. Very rarely do we get a chance to put something back into that pool. I think we have that opportunity now.”-Steve Jobs
20. “Everyone here has the sense that right now is one of those moments when we are influencing the future.”-Steve Jobs
21. “We’re trying to use the swiftness and creativity in a younger-style company, and yet bring to bear the tremendous resources of a company the size of Apple to do large projects that you could never handle at a startup.”-Steve Jobs
22. “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
23. “Apple is built on refugees from other companies. These are the extremely bright individual contributors who were troublemakers at other companies.”-Steve Jobs
24. “We have wonderful arguments. If you want to hire great people and have them stay working for you, you have to let them make a lot of decisions and you have to, you have to be run by ideas, not hierarchy. The best ideas have to win, otherwise, good people don’t stay.”-Steve Jobs
25. “Do you want to spend the rest of your life selling sugared water or do you want a chance to change the world?”-Steve Jobs
26. “I contribute ideas, sure. Why would I be there if I didn’t?”-Steve Jobs
27. “We attract a different kind of person – a person who doesn’t want to wait five or ten years to have someone take a giant risk on him or her. Someone who really wants to get a little over his head and make a little dent in the universe.”-Steve Jobs
28. “I’ve always been attracted to the more revolutionary changes.”-Steve Jobs
29. “It’s very easy to take credit for the thinking. The doing is more concrete. But somebody, it’s very easy to say “Oh, I thought of these three years ago”. But usually when you dig a little deeper, you find that the people that really did it were also the people that really worked through the hard intellectual problems as well.”-Steve Jobs
30. “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.”-Steve Jobs
