Quote #490

"The only way to do great work is to love what you do"
- Steve Jobs

Quote #165

"In most people’s vocabularies, design means veneer. It’s interior decorating. It’s the fabric of the curtains of the sofa. But to me, nothing could be further from the meaning of design. Design is the fundamental soul of a human-made creation that ends up expressing itself in successive outer layers of the product or service."
- Steve Jobs

Quote #164

"Do you want to spend the rest of your life selling sugared water or do you want a chance to change the world?"
- Steve Jobs

Quote #163

"It’s really hard to design products by focus groups. A lot of times, people don’t know what they want until you show it to them."
- Steve Jobs

Quote #162

"Quality is more important than quantity. One home run is much better than two doubles."
- Steve Jobs

Quote #161

"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 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."
- Steve Jobs

Quote #160

"So we went to Atari and said, ‘Hey, we’ve got this amazing thing, even built with some of your parts, and what do you think about funding us? Or we’ll give it to you. We just want to do it. Pay our salary, we’ll come work for you.’ And they said, ‘No.’ So then we went to Hewlett-Packard, and they said, ‘Hey, we don’t need you. You haven’t got through college yet."
- Steve Jobs

Quote #159

"And we’ve all chosen to do this with our lives. So it better be damn good. It better be worth it."
- Steve Jobs

Quote #158

"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."
- Steve Jobs

Quote #157

"Recruiting is hard. It’s just finding the needles in the haystack. You can’t know enough in a one-hour interview.
So, in the end, it’s ultimately based on your gut. How do I feel about this person? What are they like when they’re challenged? I ask everybody that: ‘Why are you here?’ The answers themselves are not what you’re looking for. It’s the meta-data."
- Steve Jobs

Quote #156

"Innovation distinguishes between a leader and a follower."
- Steve Jobs

Quote #155

"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

Quote #154

"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

Quote #153

"Design is not just what it looks like and feels like. Design is how it works."
- Steve Jobs

Quote #152

"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

Quote #151

"We made the buttons on the screen look so good you’ll want to lick them."
- Steve Jobs