Steve Jobs 25 Audio Quotes Mindset Shifting, Quality, Simplicity, Faith

“ 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

“ Technology is nothing. What’s important is that you have a faith in people, that they’re basically good and smart, and if you give them tools, they’ll do wonderful things with them. ” – Steve Jobs

“ To turn really interesting ideas and fledgling technologies into a company that can continue to innovate for years, it requires a lot of disciplines. ” – Steve Jobs

“ If you’re gonna make connections which are innovative, you have to not have the same bag of experiences as everyone else does. ” – 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

“ I’ve done a lot of things I’m not proud of, such as getting my girlfriend pregnant when I was 23 and the way I handled that. ” – Steve Jobs

“ You’ll see more and more perfection of that: computer as servant. But the next thing is going to be computer as a guide or agent. ” – Steve Jobs

“ We’re going to be able to ask our computers to monitor things for us, and when certain conditions happen, are triggered, the computers will take certain actions and inform us after the fact. ” – Steve Jobs

“ 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

“ The people who are doing the work are the moving force behind the Macintosh. My job is to create a space for them, to clear out the rest of the organization and keep it at bay. ” – Steve Jobs

“ It’s not the tools that you have faith in – tools are just tools. They work, or they don’t work. It’s people you have faith in or not. ” – Steve Jobs

“ The reason that Apple is able to create products like the iPad is because we’ve always tried to be at the intersection of technology and the liberal arts. ” – Steve Jobs

“ 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. ” – Steve Jobs

“ I’m one of those people that think Thomas Edison and the light bulb changed the world more than Karl Marx ever did. ” – Steve Jobs

“ But Apple really beats to a different drummer. I used to say that Apple should be the Sony of this business, but in reality, I think Apple should be the Apple of this business. ” – Steve Jobs

“ Stealing things is everybody’s problem. We own a lot of intellectual property, and we don’t like when people steal it. ” – Steve Jobs

“ 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. ” – Steve Jobs

“ I think the biggest innovations of the 21st century will be at the intersection of biology and technology. A new era is beginning. ” – Steve Jobs

“ 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

“ 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. ” – Steve Jobs

“ You’ve got to start with the customer experience and work backwards to the technology. You can’t start with the technology and try to figure out where you’re going to sell it. ” – Steve Jobs

“ If, for some reason, we make some big mistake and IBM wins, my personal feeling is that we are going to enter a computer Dark Ages for about twenty years. ” – Steve Jobs

“ Stay Hungry. Stay Foolish. And I have always wished that for myself. And now, as you graduate to begin anew, I wish that for you. ” – Steve Jobs

“ I found that there were these incredibly great people at doing certain things, and you couldn’t replace one of these people with fifty average people. ” – Steve Jobs

“ Each year has been so robust with problems and successes and learning experiences and human experience that a year is a lifetime at Apple. So this has been ten lifetimes. ” – Steve Jobs