Many of Steve Jobs' most inspiring and quotable lines come from his famous
2005 commencement speech at Stanford, when he told assembled
graduates, "Your time is limited, so don't waste it living someone else's
life."
But the late Apple co-founder, who died a year ago
Friday, had many other colorful and insightful things to say.
Here are 30 of his better quotes, culled from "I, Steve: Steve Jobs in His Own Words,"
How Steve Jobs' legacy has changed
1. "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." (film "Memory &
Imagination," 1990)
2. "I
end up not buying a lot of things, because I find them ridiculous." (The
Independent, 2005)
3. "I
think death is the most wonderful invention of life. It purges the system of
these old models that are obsolete." (Playboy, 1985)
4. "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." (Apple Worldwide Developers' Conference, 1997)
5. "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."
(CNNMoney/Fortune, 1993)
6. "My job is not to be easy on people. My
job is to make them better." (CNNMoney/Fortune, 2008)
7. "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." (Playboy, 1985)
8. "Innovation
distinguishes between a leader and a follower." ("The Innovation
Secrets of Steve Jobs," 2001)
9. "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." ("60 Minutes," 2003)
10. "I would trade all my technology for an
afternoon with Socrates." (Newsweek, 2001)
11. “Don’t let
the noise of others’ opinions drown out your own inner voice.”
12. “Have the
courage to follow your heart and intuition. They somehow already know what you
truly want to become. Everything else is secondary.”
13. “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.”
14. “The
heaviness of being successful was replaced by the lightness of being a beginner
again.”
15. “Why join
the navy if you can be a pirate?”
16. “Good
Artists Copy, Great Artists Steal”
17. “Este es un
homenaje a los locos. A los inadaptados. A los rebeldes. A los alborotadores. A
las fichas redondas en los huecos cuadrados. A los que ven las cosas de forma
diferente. A ellos no les gustan las reglas, y no sienten ningún respeto por el
statu quo. Puedes citarlos, discrepar de ellos, glorificarlos o vilipendiarlos.
Casi lo único que no puedes hacer es ignorarlos. Porque ellos cambian las
cosas. Son los que hacen avanzar al género humano. Y aunque algunos los vean
como a locos, nosotros vemos su genio. Porque las personas que están lo
suficientemente locas como para pensar que pueden cambiar el mundo... son
quienes lo cambian”
18. “Algunas
personas proponen: «Dales a los clientes lo que quieren». Pero esa no es mi
postura. Nuestro trabajo consiste en averiguar qué van a querer antes de que lo
sepan. Creo que fue Henry Ford quien dijo una vez: «Si les hubiera preguntado a
mis clientes qué querÃan, me habrÃan contestado: “¡Un caballo más rápido!”». La
gente no sabe lo que quiere hasta que se lo enseñas. Por eso nunca me he basado
en las investigaciones de mercado. Nuestra tarea estriba en leer las páginas
que todavÃa no se han escrito.”
19. “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.”
20. “Finally
Jobs proposed Apple Computer. “I was on one of my fruitarian diets,” he
explained. “I had just come back from the apple farm. It sounded fun, spirited,
and not intimidating. Apple took the edge off the word ‘computer.’ Plus, it
would get us ahead of Atari in the phone book”
21. “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.”
22. “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.”
23. “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.”
24. “I naively
chose a college that was almost as expensive as Stanford, and all of my
working-class parents' savings were being spent on my college tuition. After
six months, I couldn't see the value in it. I had no idea what I wanted to do
with my life and no idea how college was going to help me figure it out. And
here I was spending all of the money my parents had saved their entire life. So
I decided to drop out and trust that it would all work out OK. It was pretty
scary at the time, but looking back it was one of the best decisions I ever
made. The minute I dropped out I could stop taking the required classes that
didn't interest me, and begin dropping in on the ones that looked interesting.”
25. “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.”
26. “At
Apple, people are putting in 18-hour days. We attract a different type of
person—a person who doesn’t want to wait five or ten years to have someone take
a giant risk on him or her. Someone who really wants to get in a little over
his head and make a little dent in the universe. We are aware that we are doing
something significant. We’re here at the beginning of it and we’re able to
shape how it goes. Everyone here has the sense that right now is one of those
moments when we are influencing the future.”
27. The
Macintosh was sort of like this wonderful romance in your life that you once
had — and that produced about 10 million children. In a way it will never be
over in your life. You'll still smell that romance every morning when you get
up. And when you open the window, the cool air will hit your face, and you'll
smell that romance in the air. And you'll see your children around, and you
feel good about it. And nothing will ever make you feel bad about it.”
28. When
you’re a carpenter making a beautiful chest of drawers, you’re not going to use
a piece of plywood on the back...
29. Remembering
that you are going to die is the best way I know to avoid the trap of thinking
you have something to lose...
30. Stay
Hungry. Stay Foolish.
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