What Did He Do?
He held a passion for technology and design from a young age.
In 1974, he dropped out of Reed College to pursue a video game designer role at Atari.
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Jobs and Wozniak designed the board in Jobs garage.
After much time, effort, and hustling to generate funding, theApple Iwas created.
Over the years, they gathered a small team of developers.
This then helped Apple make a quick entrance into Fortune 500s list of companies by 1983.
With his newly gained freedom,Steve Jobsundertook two new firms: Next Inc. and Pixar.
Over time, he turnedPixarinto a major animation studio.
This photo was created entirely by Matthew Yohe.
During Apples financial losses in 1996, a new chief executive was hired.
They then bought Jobs NEXTSTEP operating system and brought Jobs back on to lead the team.
For the rest of his career, Steve Jobs grew in fame and fortune.
In 2003, he was diagnosed with a rare form of pancreatic cancer.
It was eventually cured, but it led to various health issues that led him to his death.
He died on October 5th, 2011.
Steve Jobs was one of the most successful entrepreneurs due to his creation of many revolutionary technologies.
He left behind a large legacy that continues to impact todays most innovative minds.
Discover some inspiring quotes below that offer advice on business and insight on the beauty of simplicity.
And the only way to do great work is to love what you do.
If you havent found it yet, keep looking and dont settle.
And the reason is that its so hard that if you dont, any rational person would give up.
And you have to do it over a sustained period of time.
-Steve Jobs
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.
-Steve Jobs
Im convinced that the only thing that kept me going was that I loved what I did.
Youve got to find what you love.
The vision pulls you.
I think thats half the battle right there.
-Steve Jobs
Steve Jobs Quotes on Success and Money
I dont care about being right.
I care about success and doing the right thing.
It is so hard.
You put so much of your life into this thing.
There are such rough moments in time that I think most people give up.
I dont blame them.
Its really tough, and it consumes your life.
-Steve Jobs
Being the richest man in the cemetery doesnt matter to me…
Going to bed at night saying weve done something wonderful.
Thats what matters to me.
And the ones that didnt love it quit because theyre sane, right?
Who would want to put up with this stuff if you dont love it?
-Steve Jobs
My favorite things in life dont cost any money.
Its really clear that the most precious resource we all have is time.
-Steve Jobs
Its very easy to take credit for the thinking.
The doing is more concrete.
But somebody, its very easy to say, Oh, I thought of these three years ago.
-Steve Jobs
The doers are the major thinkers.
It seemed obvious to them after a while.
Thats because they were able to connect experiences theyve had and synthesize new things.
-Steve Jobs
Ive always been attracted to the more revolutionary changes.
I dont know why.
Theyre much more stressful emotionally.
And you usually go through a period where everybody tells you that youve completely failed.
-Steve Jobs
Ultimately, it comes down to taste.
-Steve Jobs
The people that have really made the contributions have been the thinkers and the doers.
-Steve Jobs
The greatest people are self-managing they dont need to be managed.
Once they know what to do, theyll go figure out how to do it.
What they need is a common vision.
-Steve Jobs
Stay hungry, stay foolish.
-Steve Jobs
it’s possible for you to change it; it’s possible for you to influence it.
-Steve Jobs
You get your wind back, remember the finish line, and keep going.
-Steve Jobs
Most people dont get those experiences because they never ask.
Ive never found anybody that didnt want to help me if I asked them for help.
-Steve Jobs
Ive never found anyone whos said no or hung up the phone when I called-I just asked.
-Steve Jobs
You gotta act.
If youre afraid of failing, you wont get very far.
-Steve Jobs
Most people never pick up the phone and call.
Most people never ask.
And thats what separates sometimes the people that do things from the people that just dream about them.
-Steve Jobs
We are aware that we are doing something significant.
Were here at the beginning of it, and were able to shape how it goes.
-Steve Jobs
Steve Jobs Quotes About Technology
Its really hard to design products by focus groups.
A lot of times, people dont know what they want until you show it to them.
People are thinking less than they used to.
Its primarily because of television.
People are reading less, and theyre certainly thinking less.
-Steve Jobs
Obviously, one of the great challenges of an education is to teach us how to think.
-Steve Jobs
My job is to say when something sucks rather than sugarcoat it.
By the time you get it built, theyll want something new.
-Steve Jobs
Dont get hung up on who owns the idea.
Pick the best one, and lets go.
-Steve Jobs
All we are is our ideas or people.
Thats what keeps us going to work in the morning, to hang around these great bright people.
Ive always thought that recruiting is the heart and soul of what we do.
-Steve Jobs
That was what we learned: was that us, too, we didnt know much.
We could build a little thing that could control a giant thing, and that was an incredible lesson.
-Steve Jobs
What Im best at doing is finding a group of talented people and making things with them.
-Steve Jobs
We had everything to gain.
Its more important to be engaged in the present.
-Steve Jobs
Your time is limited, so dont waste it living someone elses life.
Dont be trapped by dogma which is living with the results of other peoples thinking.
Dont let the noise of others opinions drown out your own inner voice.
-Steve Jobs
Humans are tool builders.
We create things to amplify ourselves.
The computer will rank at the top its the most awesome tool ever.
Its the equivalent of a bicycle for our minds.
-Steve Jobs
No, we dont know where it will lead.
We just know theres something much bigger than any of us here.
-Steve Jobs
Most of the time, were taking things.
Very rarely do we get a chance to put something back into that pool.
I think we have that opportunity now.
We cook up new products.
You never really know if people will love them as much as you do.
-Steve Jobs
I do feel there is another way we have an effect on society besides our computers.
-Steve Jobs
Im actually as proud of the things we havent done as the things I have done.
Innovation is saying no to 1,000 things.
You have to pick carefully.
-Steve Jobs
I discovered that the best innovation is sometimes the company, the way you organize a company.
The whole notion of how you build a company is fascinating.
-Steve Jobs
Innovation distinguishes between a leader and a follower.
-Steve Jobs
Many companies forget what it means to make great products.
Thats because its so hard that if you dont have a passion, youll give up.
-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
Recruiting is hard.
Its just finding the needles in the haystack.
-Steve Jobs
You should never start a company with the goal of getting rich.
Your goal should be making something you believe in and making a company that will last.
-Steve Jobs
Quality is much better than quantity.
One home run is much better than two doubles.
Thats the moment that an artist really decides who he or she is.
If they keep on risking failure, theyre still artists.
Youll know its there, so youre going to use a beautiful piece of wood on the back.
-Steve Jobs
Creativity is just connecting things.
Just figure out whats next.
I have to go.
Im going crazy, and Im getting out of here.
And they go and hibernate somewhere.
Maybe later they re-emerge a little differently.
-Steve Jobs
Details matter; its worth waiting to get it right.
-Steve Jobs
Picasso had a saying: good artists copy, great artists steal.
-Steve Jobs
I think the artistry is in having an insight into what one sees around them.
-Steve Jobs
Design is not just what it looks like and feels like.
Design is how it works.
-Steve Jobs
I think the things you most regret in life are things you didnt do.
What you really regret was never asking that girl to dance.
I realized that I love my life.
Ive got the greatest family in the world, and Ive got my work.
And thats pretty much all I do.
I dont socialize much or go to conferences.
I love my family, and I love running Apple, and I love Pixar.
And I get to do that.
-Steve Jobs
Life goes on, and you learn from it.
-Steve Jobs
I believe life is an intelligent thing, that things arent random.
-Steve Jobs
Invest time in yourself to have great experiences that are going to enrich you.
-Steve Jobs
Dont take it all too seriously.
You have to be willing to take whatever youve done and whoever you were and throw them away.
You are already naked.
-Steve Jobs
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
Thats maybe the most important thing.
Once you learn that, youll never be the same again.
-Steve Jobs
Lets go invent tomorrow rather than worrying about what happened yesterday.
-Steve Jobs
You cant connect the dots looking forward; you could only connect them looking backwards.
So you have to trust that the dots will somehow connect in your future.
-Steve Jobs
Things dont have to change the world to be important.
-Steve Jobs
No one wants to die.
Even people who want to go to heaven dont 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.
-Steve Jobs
Sometimes, life hits you in the head with a brick.
-Steve Jobs
In the broadest context, the goal is to seek enlightenment however, you define it.
Try not to bash into walls too much.
attempt to have a nice family life, have fun, save a little money.
Thats a very limited life.
Life can be much broader.
And some people express their deep appreciation in different ways.
And its a way of expressing to the rest of our species our deep appreciation.
So we need to be true to who we are and remember whats really important to us.
-Steve Jobs
One way to remember who you are is to remember who your heroes are.
But nonetheless, it has to be done, and it is never fun.
-Steve Jobs
What are we, anyway?
Most of what we think we are is just a collection of likes and dislikes, habits, patterns.
Someone who really wants to get a little over his head and make a little dent in the universe.
-Steve Jobs
The most important thing is a person.
-Steve Jobs
Other Inspiring Steve Jobs Quotes
Thats been one of my mantras focus and simplicity.
If you havent found it yet, keep looking, dont settle.
As with all matters of the heart, youll know when you find it.
-Steve Jobs
People judge you on your performance, so focus on the outcome.
Be a yardstick of quality.
Some people arent used to an environment where excellence is expected.
But its worth it in the end because once you get there, you could move mountains.
-Steve Jobs
I think different religions are different doors to the same house.
Sometimes I think the house exists, and sometimes I dont.
Its the great mystery.
Things dont have to change the world to be important.
-Steve Jobs
