Steve Jobs’ Memorable Quotes

Throughout the years, he’s not only changed our lives with innovative products, but also with memorable words.

Check out Apple co-founder Steve Jobs’ memorable quotes:

“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

“Sometimes when you innovate, you make mistakes. It is best to admit them quickly, and get on with improving your other innovations.” – Steve Jobs

“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 as quoted in The Wall Street Journal (Summer 1993).

“We’ve gone through the operating system and looked at everything and asked how can we simplify this and make it more powerful at the same time.” – Steve Jobs on Mac OS X Beta, ABC News

“Be a yardstick of quality. Some people aren’t used to an environment where excellence is expected.” – Steve Jobs

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

“I was worth over $1,000,000 when I was 23, and over $10,000,000 when I was 24, and over $100,000,000 when I was 25, and it wasn’t that important because I never did it for the money.” – Steve Jobs

“Unfortunately, people are not rebelling against Microsoft. They don’t know any better.” – Steve Jobs in Rolling Stone magazine interview, no. 684 (16 June 1994)

“Bill Gates‘d be a broader guy if he had dropped acid once or gone off to an ashram when he was younger.” – The New York Times, Creating Jobs, 1997

“The only problem with Microsoft is they just have no taste. They have absolutely no taste. And I don’t mean that in a small way, I mean that in a big way, in the sense that they don’t think of original ideas, and they don’t bring much culture into their products.” – Steve Jobs in YouTube

“My job is not to be easy on people. My jobs is to take these great people we have and to push them and make them even better.” – All About Steve Jobs

“We made the buttons on the screen look so good you’ll want to lick them.” – Steve Jobs as quoted in Fortune magazine (4 January 2000)

“Click. Boom. Amazing!” – Steve Jobs’ Macworld keynote 2006

“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.” – Steve Jobs’ Inc. Magazine interview

“That’s not what we think design is. It’s not just what it looks like and feels like. Design is how it works” – Steve Jobs in New York Times, The Guts of a New Machine, 2003

“We don’t get a chance to do that many things, and every one should be really excellent. Because this is our life. Life is brief, and then you die, you know? And we’ve all chosen to do this with our lives. So it better be damn good. It better be worth it.” – Steve Jobs’ Fortune interview

“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 you have something to lose. You are already naked. There is no reason not to follow your heart.” – Steve Jobs’ Stanford Commencement Address

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