These Steve Jobs motivational quotes on life will inspire you to follow your dreams.
Steven Paul Jobs was born on February 24, 1955, was an American business magnate, industrial designer, investor, and media proprietor. He was the chairman, CEO, and co-founder of the Apple Inc. brand. He is one of the most respected entrepreneurs of his time.
Born in San Francisco, California, and put up for adoption. Steve Jobs was raised in the San Francisco Bay Area. He enrolled in the dropped out in the same year from the Reed College in 1972. He traveled to India in 1974 and studied Zen Buddhism to seek enlightenment.
Steve Jobs founded Apple with his friend dearest Steve Wozniak in 1976. They created their first computer in Job’s parent’s garage and named it the Apple I. Later they develop Apple II which was a huge success and sold 2 million units worldwide.
Steve Jobs brought John Sculley as the CEO of Apple when it started to grow. But later in 1985, Steve Jobs was fired from his own company due to the power struggle and started two companies called NeXT and Pixar.
Pixar worked to create 3D computer animation films and the first-ever computer-animated film they produced was Toy Story in 1995. Later Apple bought NeXT and again Steve Jobs become the head of the company after a decade.
Steve Jobs made Apple the highest valued company by developing and launching the iMac, the iPod, the iPhone, and the iPad in multiple years of span.
Later, he was diagnosed with a pancreatic neuroendocrine tumor in 2003 and died on October 5, 2011, due to respiratory arrest because of that tumor at the age of 56.
Here we are sharing a collection of Steve Jobs motivational quotes on life for you to live the life you have always dreamed of.
Steve Jobs Quotes
“Remembering that you are going to die is the best way I know to avoid the trap of thinking you have something to lose. You are already naked. There is no reason not to follow your heart.”
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“Everything is important- that success is in the details.”
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“When You Need A Miracle, Be Miracle”
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“Don’t sweat for small stuff”
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“Get your mind around it. You can do it”
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“Innovation distinguishes between a leader and a follower.”
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“What we’re doing here will send a giant ripple through the universe.”
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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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“If you are willing to travel around the world to meet a teacher, one will appear next door”
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“Mistakes will be made”
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Steve Jobs Quotes On Life
“Deciding what not to do is as important as deciding what to do.”
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“Let’s go invent tomorrow instead of worrying about what happened yesterday.”
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“A lot of times, people don’t know what they want until you show it to them”
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“Don’t let the noise of other’s opinions down out 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.”
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“We believe people with Passion CAN change the World for the Better.”
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“My job is not to be easy on people. My job is to take these great people we have and to push them and make them even better.”
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“Learn more and Know more.”
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“If you really look closely, most overnight successes took a long time.”
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“People who know what they are talking about don’t need power Point.”
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“It’s not done until it ships.”
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Steve Jobs Famous Quotes
“Computers are like a bicycle for the mind. ”
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“I don’t want to fail, of course. But even though I didn’t know how bad things really were, I still had a lot to think about before I said yes. I had to consider the implications for Pixar, for my family, for my reputation. I decided that I didn’t really care, because this is what I want to do. If I try my best and fail, well, I’ve tried my best.”
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“Everybody in this country should learn to program a computer… because it teaches you how to think.”
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“Keep looking. Don’t settle”
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“What make you think that if you can’t finish a project in 18 months, you will be able to do that 18 months later?”
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“I bleed in six colors.”
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“I think great artists and great engineers are similar, in that they both have a desire to express themselves. In fact some of the best people working on the original Mac were poets and musicians on the side.”
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“Great things in business are never done by one person, They are done by a team of people”
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“Don’t let something that doesn’t matter cause you to lose something that does”
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“We’re here to put a dent in the universe. Otherwise, why else even be here?”
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Steve Jobs Motivational Quotes
“Don’t be trapped by dogma — which is living with the results of other people’s thinking.”
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“It doesn’t make sense to hire smart people and then tell them what to do, We hire smart people so they can tell us what to do.”
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“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.”
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“Creation is messy. You want genius, you get madness; two sides of the same coin.”
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“Innovation is the only way to win.”
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“I’m an optimist in the sense that I believe humans are noble and honorable, and some of them are really smart. I have a very optimistic view of individuals.”
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“We’re always talking about following your passion. But we’re all part of the flow of history… you’ve got to put something back into the flow of history that’s going to help your community…People will say, this person didn’t just have a passion, he cared about making something that other people could benefit from.”
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“Bottom line is, I didn’t return to Apple to make a fortune. I’ve been very lucky in my life and already have one. When I was 25, my net worth was $100 million or so. I decided then that I wasn’t going to let it ruin my life. There’s no way you could ever spend it all, and I don’t view wealth as something that validates my intelligence.”
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“You know who the best managers are?
They’re the great individual contributors, who never ever want to be a manager, but decide they have to be a manager because no one else is going to be able to do as good a job as them.”
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“Computers themselves, and software yet to be developed, will revolutionize the way we learn.”
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Steve Jobs Quotes About Work
“You’ve got to find what you love and that is as true for work as it is for lovers. Your work is going to fill a large part of your life and the only way to be truly satisfied is to do what you believe is great work. And the only way to do great work is to love what you do. If you haven’t found it yet, keep looking and don’t settle. As with all matters of the heart, you’ll know when you’ve found it.”
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“I’m as proud of what we don’t do as I am of what we do.”
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“For most of my life, I’ve felt that there must be more to our existence than meets the eye.
This is who I am, and you can’t expect me to be someone I’m not.”
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“I was worth about over a million dollars when I was 23 and over ten million dollars when I was 24, and over a hundred million dollars when I was 25 and… it wasn’t that important — because I never did it for the money.”
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“In your life, you only get to do so many things and right now we’ve chosen to do this, so let’s make it great.”
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“If you’re gonna make connections which are innovative, you have to not have the same bag of experience as everyone else does.”
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“Musicians play their instruments. I play the orchestra.”
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“Things don’t have to change the world to be important.”
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“Stay hungry. Stay foolish.”
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“Sometimes life’s going to hit you in the head with a brick. Don’t lose faith. I’m convinced that the only thing that kept me going was that I loved what I did.”
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Steve Jobs Best Quotes, Sayings, Phrases
“Details matter, it’s worth waiting to get it right.”
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“You’ve baked a really lovely cake, but then you’ve used dog shit for frosting.”
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“Your thoughts construct patterns like scaffolding in your mind. You are really etching chemical patterns. In most cases, people get stuck in those patterns, just like grooves in a record, and they never get out of them.”
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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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“Focus on what you are good at; delegate all else.”
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“I’ve read something that Bill Gates said about six months ago. He said, ‘I worked really, really hard in my 20s.’ And I know what he means, because I worked really, really hard in my 20s too. Literally, you know, 7 days a week, a lot of hours every day. And it actually is a wonderful thing to do, because you can get a lot done. But you can’t do it forever, and you don’t want to do it forever, and you have to come up with ways of figuring out what the most important things are and working with other people even more.”
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“If you want to live your life in a creative way, as an artist, you have to not look back too much. You have to be willing to take whatever you’ve done and whoever you were and throw them away.”
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“I was in the parking lot, with the key in the car, and I thought to myself: If this is my last night on earth, would I rather spend it at a business meeting or with this woman? I ran across the parking lot, asked her if she’d have dinner with me. She said yes, we walked into town, and we’ve been together ever since.”
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“We don’t get a chance to do that many things, and everyone should be really excellent. Because this is our life.”
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“I have looked in the mirror every morning and asked myself: “If today were the last day of my life, would I want to do what I am about to do today?” And whenever the answer has been “No” for too many days in a row, I know I need to change something.”
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Steve Jobs Quotes On Success, Innovation
“Follow your heart and your intuition. They somehow already know what you truly want to become. Everything else is secondary.”
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“My favorite things in life don’t cost any money.
It’s really clear that the most precious resource we all have is time.”
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“You can’t look at the competition and say you’re going to do it better. You have to look at the competition and say you’re going to do it differently.”
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“Everything around you that you call life was made up by people that were no smarter than you. And you can change it, you can influence it… Once you learn that, you’ll never be the same again”
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“When you’re doing something for yourself, or your best friend or family, you’re not going to cheese out. If you don’t love something, you’re not going to go the extra mile, work the extra weekend, challenge the status quo as much.”
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“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.”
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“The only way to be truly satisfied is to do what you believe is great work, and the only way to do great work is to love what you do. If you haven’t found it yet, keep looking, and don’t settle. As with all matters of the heart, you’ll know when you find it. And like any great relationship, it just gets better and better as the years roll on. So keep looking, don’t settle.”
― Steve Jobs
“Don’t lose faith. I’m convinced that the only thing that kept me going was that I loved what I did. You’ve got to find what you love. And that is as true for your work as it is for your lovers. Your work is going to fill a large part of your life, and the only way to be truly satisfied is to do what you believe is great work. And the only way to do great work is to love what you do. If you haven’t found it yet, keep looking. Don’t settle. As with all matters of the heart, you’ll know when you find it. And, like any great relationship, it just gets better and better as the years roll on. So keep looking until you find it. Don’t settle.”
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“When you grow up you tend to get told that the world is the way it is and your life is just to live your life inside the world. Try not to bash into the walls too much. Try to have a nice family life, have fun, save a little money. That’s a very limited life. Life can be much broader once you discover one simple fact: Everything around you that you call life was made up of people that were no smarter than you. And you can change it, you can influence it… Once you learn that, you’ll never be the same again.”
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“Almost everything…all external expectations…all pride…all fear of embarrassment or failure…these things just fall away in the face of death….leaving only what is truly important. Remembering that you are going to die is the best way I know to avoid the trap of thinking that you have something to lose. You are already naked…there is no reason not to follow your heart.”
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Steve Jobs Words Of Inspiration
“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
“People think focus means saying yes to the thing you’ve got to focus on. But that’s not what it means at all. It means saying no to the hundred other good ideas that there are. You have to pick carefully. I’m actually as proud of the things we haven’t done as the things I have done. Innovation is saying no to 1,000 things.”
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“Why join the navy if you can be a pirate?”
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“I’ve been rejected, but I am still in love.”
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“The only way to do great work is to love what you do. If you haven’t found it yet, keep looking. Don’t settle.”
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“Focusing is about saying No.”
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“You have to be burning with an idea, or a problem, or a wrong that you want to right. If you’re not passionate enough from the start, you’ll never stick it out.”
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“Simple can be harder than complex: You have to work hard to get your thinking clean to make it simple. But it’s worth it in the end because once you get there, you can move mountains.”
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“Have the courage to follow your heart and intuition. They somehow already know what you truly want to become. Everything else is secondary.”
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“If you live each day as it was your last, someday you’ll most certainly be right”
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Steve Jobs Inspirational Quotes
“No one wants to die. Even people who want to go to heaven don’t 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. It is Life’s change agent. It clears out the old to make way for the new. Right now the new is you, but someday not too long from now, you will gradually become the old and be cleared away. Sorry to be so dramatic, but it is quite true. “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 out 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”
― Steve Jobs
“Creativity is just connecting things.”
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“Think Different”
― Steve Jobs
“Your work is going to fill a large part of your life, and the only way to be truly satisfied is to do what you believe is great work. And the only way to do great work is to love what you do. If you haven’t found it yet, keep looking. Don’t settle. As with all matters of the heart, you’ll know when you find it. And, like any great relationship, it just gets better and better as the years roll on.”
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“The heaviness of being successful was replaced by the lightness of being a beginner again.”
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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.”
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“When I was 17, I read a quote that went something like: ‘If you live each day as if it was your last, someday you’ll most certainly be right.’ It made an impression on me, and since then, for the past 33 years, I have looked in the mirror every morning and asked myself: “If today were the last day of my life, would I want to do what I am about to do today?” And whenever the answer has been “No” for too many days in a row, I know I need to change something.”
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“The journey is the reward”
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“I would trade all of my technology for an afternoon with Socrates.”
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“You can’t connect the dots looking forward; you can only connect them looking backward. So you have to trust that the dots will somehow connect in your future.”
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Steve Jobs Advice On Life
“It places value on experience versus intellectual understanding. I saw a lot of people contemplating things but it didn’t seem to lead to too many places. I got very interested in people who had discovered something more significant than an intellectual, abstract understanding.”
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“Some people say, “Give the customers what they want.” But that’s not my approach. Our job is to figure out what they’re going to want before they do. I think Henry Ford once said, “If I’d asked customers what they wanted, they would have told me, ‘A faster horse!'” People don’t know what they want until you show it to them. That’s why I never rely on market research. Our task is to read things that are not yet on the page.”
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“My model for business is The Beatles. They were four guys who kept each other 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
“Design is not just what it looks like and feels like. Design is how it works.”
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“If you haven’t found it yet, keep looking. Don’t settle. As with all matters of the heart, you’ll know when you find it. And, like any great relationship, it just gets better and better as the years roll on.”
― Steve Jobs
“The thing that bound us together at Apple was the ability to make things that were going to change the world. That was very important.”
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“In the broadest context, the goal is to seek enlightenment – however, you define it.”
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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.”
― Steve Jobs
“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 other’s opinions drown out 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.”
― Steve Jobs
“Don’t let the noise of others’ opinions drown out your own inner voice.”
― Steve Jobs
Did these Steve Jobs quotes motivate you to work hard for your goals?
Steve Jobs was passionate about making a dent in the universe and that’s what he did. He had left her mark in the revolutionized 6 industries; phones, music, animated movies, PCs, tablets, and digital publishing. His drive for perfection and his risk-taking attitude is commendable as well as inspiring.
He never gave up on his beliefs and turned the impossible into possible. Also with his leadership skills, he had made others achieve impossible. We hope Steve Jobs’s motivational quotes on life will inspire you to never give up on your beliefs and bounce back from your defeat whenever necessary.
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