Steve Jobs was one of the most creative and daring CEO’s; a global icon who has shaped the world of technology and media.
Actually, there’s not a single executive or creator in the technology industry more important than Steve Jobs.
His products are adored by millions, while the company he started in his garage is now worth over $700 Billion.
He was also a talented speaker and during the course of his life he said many inspirational things about life, success and entrepreneurship that will get you super excited and change the way you see things.
Here are some of the most famous Steve Jobs quotes on life, work and success.
1. Your time is limited, so don’t waste it living someone else’s life.
2. 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.
3. Sometimes life’s going to hit you in the head with a brick. Don’t lose faith. I am convinced that the only thing that kept me going was that I loved what I did.
4. Let’s go invent tomorrow rather than worrying about what happened yesterday.
5. 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.
6. 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.
7. 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
8. My favorite things in life don’t cost any money. It’s really clear that the most precious resource we all have is time.
9. 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.
10. The people who are crazy enough to think they can change the world are the ones who do.
11. 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.
12. If you live each day as it was your last, someday you’ll most certainly be right.
13. 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.
14. You can’t connect the dots looking forward; you can only connect them looking backwards. So you have to trust that the dots will somehow connect in your future. 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.
15. 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.
16. Often, the people who are successful loved what they did so they could persevere when things got really tough. The ones that didn’t love it quit, cause they’re sane.
17. Quality is more important than quantity. One home run is much better than two doubles.
18. I’m convinced that about half of what separates successful entrepreneurs from the non-successful ones is pure perseverance.
19. 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.
20. 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.
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