Steve Jobs 29 Most Inspiring Audio Quotes: Strategy, Habits, Asking Questions, Design

“ Manage the top line: your strategy, your people, and your products, and the bottom line will follow. ” – Steve Jobs

“ In the first 30 years of your life, you make your habits. For the last 30 years of your life, your habits make you. ” – Steve Jobs

“ 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. ” – Steve Jobs

“ It’s very simple: The more successful you are, the more you’ll earn. But if you’re not successful, you will not earn a dime. ” – Steve Jobs

“ If you are working on something exciting that you really care about, you don’t have to be pushed. The vision pulls you. ” – Steve Jobs

“ If I had never dropped in on that single course in college, the Mac would have never had multiple typefaces or proportionally spaced fonts. ” – Steve Jobs

“ If you want to hire great people and have them stay, you have to be run by ideas, not hierarchy. The best ideas have to win. ” – Steve Jobs

“ I know from my own education that if I hadn’t encountered two or three individuals that spent extra time with me, I’m sure I would have been in jail. ” – Steve Jobs

“ I think PCs are going to be like trucks. Less people will need them. And this is going to make some people uneasy. ” – Steve Jobs

“ Find people who are competent and really bright, but more importantly, people who care exactly about the same things you care about. ” – Steve Jobs

“ The greatest artists like Dylan, Picasso and Newton risked failure. And if we want to be great, we’ve got to risk it too. ” – Steve Jobs

“ Shake off this erroneous notion that life is there and you’re just gonna live in it, versus embrace it, change it, improve it, make your mark upon it. ” – Steve Jobs

“ 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. ” – Steve Jobs

“ Management is about persuading people to do things they do not want to do, while leadership is about inspiring people to do things they never thought they could. ” – Steve Jobs

“ Focus is about saying, No. And the result of that focus is going to be some really great products where the total is much greater than the sum of the parts. ” – Steve Jobs

“ 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, you can build your own things that other people can use. ” – Steve Jobs

“ I’m not dismissing the value of higher education; I’m simply saying it comes at the expense of experience. ” – Steve Jobs

“ Kick-start your brain. New ideas come from watching something, talking to people, experimenting, asking questions and getting out of the office. ” – Steve Jobs

“ Making an enduring company was both harder and more important than making a great product. ” – Steve Jobs

“ What you choose to do has got to be something that you’re passionate about because otherwise you won’t have the perseverance to see it through. ” – Steve Jobs

“ It doesn’t make sense to hire smart people and tell them what to do; we hire smart people so they can tell us what to do. ” – Steve Jobs

“ After all the statistics and calculations are formulated, the one element that breathes life into marketing is good design. ” – Steve Jobs

“ You have to have a lot of passion for what you do, because if you don’t, any rational person would give up. ” – Steve Jobs

“ Everyone here has the sense that right now is one of those moments when we are influencing the future. ” – Steve Jobs

“ Computers themselves, and software yet to be developed, will revolutionize the way we learn. ” – Steve Jobs

“ Older people sit down and ask, ‘What is it?’ but the boy asks, ‘What can I do with it?’ ” – Steve Jobs

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

“ Do you want to sell sugar water all your life, or do you want to come with me and change the world? ” – Steve Jobs

“ The broader one’s understanding of the human experience, the better design we will have. ” – Steve Jobs