Steve Jobs quotes 30 famous phrases, thoughts, sayings

Many people cannot boast of a very diverse experience. On their life chart there are not enough coordinates to connect them to build the correct trajectory of movement. Most do not see the problem in all its diversity, so their solutions are very straightforward. The higher the culture of man, allowing him to make wider use of the experience of mankind, the better his design decisions.
A computer is the most amazing tool I've ever come across. This is a bicycle for our consciousness.
I greatly respect gradual transformations and try to do something similar in my life, but revolutionary changes have always attracted me. Because they are harder. They are emotionally much more stressful. And during such changes, you always go through a period when everyone tells you that you will not succeed.
Good advertising educates people, that's all. It is impossible to fool people into this business. The products speak for themselves.
All that we are is our ideas and our people. To get up in the morning and drag ourselves to work we are made only by the brilliantly smart people inside the company. I always believed that the right selection of employees is the key to success in any business.
Over the years, I stopped buying many things simply because they now seem ridiculous to me.
When you start to solve a problem, the most difficult decisions go into your head first, and most people stop there. But if you continue to think further, if you delve into the problem, if you remove the husk layer by layer, as if peeling an onion, then you will come to the most elegant and simple solution. Most people simply do not have enough time or energy. We consider our customers smart people, they need things thought out to the smallest detail.
When companies grow into multibillion corporations, they lose their ideology. Between those who manage the company and those who do the work, a thick layer of middle managers wedges in. Thus, the connection with the product and the passion in working on it are lost. And the creators - the only ones who really don't give a damn about their product - have to convince the five levels of leadership that they are doing exactly what they need.
Being the richest person in the cemetery doesn’t matter to me ... Go to bed and tell yourself that you really did something beautiful - that’s what matters!
I will call the company "Apple", if by 5 o’clock you do not offer the best!
I believe that a person’s qualities are determined by his environment, not heredity.
If you just sit and watch, you will see how limitless your thinking is. If you try to calm him down, it will only get worse. But over time, thinking itself calms down and you learn to control it. At this moment, intuition wakes up and you see everything around you much more clearly than you saw before.
We will never survive unless we go a little crazy ...
Intuition is a very powerful thing, more powerful than intelligence.
Stay hungry. Stay foolish.
Start small, but dream big. Do not do too many things at once.Start with a few simple things, and gradually move on to more complex ones. And always think about the future.
Take a step, and the road will appear by itself.
You baked a beautiful cake, but used dog shit instead of frosting.
The best people are the ones thanks to whom you smile most often.
We eat food that other people grow. We wear clothes that other people have sewn. We speak languages that were invented by other people. We use math, but other people also developed it ... I think we all say it all the time. This is a great occasion to create something that could be useful to humanity.
Only having a goal brings meaning and satisfaction to life. This not only helps to improve health and longevity, but also gives you a drop of optimism in difficult times.
The path traveled is the reward.
When I turned 23, I already had more than a million dollars, in 24 years - more than 10 million, and in 25 years - more than 100 million. And all this does not matter, because I never did anything just for the sake of money.
Your time is limited, do not waste it, living a different life. Do not fall for the creed that exists in the thinking of others. Do not let the eyes of others drown your own inner voice. And it is very important to have the courage to follow your heart and intuition. One way or another they already know what you really want to do. Everything else is secondary.
TV dulls and kills a lot of time. Turn it off and you will save some cells of your brain. However, be careful - you can dull at the computer Apple.
When you are young and watch TV, you think that the television companies have conspired and want to make people stupid. But then you grow up and understanding comes - people themselves want this. And this is a much more frightening thought. A conspiracy is not scary, you can shoot the bastards, start a revolution. But there is no conspiracy, the television companies just satisfy the demand, unfortunately, this is true.
It makes no sense to hire sensible people, and then indicate what they should do. We hire people to tell us what to do.
If for some reason you are upset, then this is not a reason to say goodbye to life. But if life has decided to leave you, this is a reason for frustration.
If you are involved with a dying industry, drop it quickly before you lose your job.
Creativity is simply the creation of connections between things. When creative people are asked how they did something, they feel a little guilty because they did not actually do anything, but simply noticed. It becomes clear to them over time. They were able to connect different pieces of their experience and synthesize something new. This is because they have experienced and seen more than others, or because they think more about it.