Steve Jobs - Quodid

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Steven Paul Jobs (February 24, 1955 – October 5, 2011) was an American businessman, inventor, and investor. A pioneer of the personal computer revolution of the 1970s and 1980s, Jobs co-founded Apple with his early business partner Steve Wozniak as Apple Computer Company in 1976. After the company's board of directors fired him in 1985, he founded NeXT the same year and purchased Pixar in 1986, becoming its chairman and majority shareholder until 2007. Jobs returned to Apple in 1997 as CEO, where he was closely involved with the creation and promotion of many of the company's most influential products until his resignation in 2011.

Quotes from Steve Jobs

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 importantly, have the courage to follow your heart and intuition. They somehow already know what you truly want to become. Everything else is secondary.

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I want to put a ding in the universe.

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My intent is simply to know my material so well that I'm very comfortable with it. Confidence, not perfection, is the goal.

Give no decision till both sides thou'st heard.

Design is not just what it looks like and feels like. Design is how it works.

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.

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.

Fear is that little darkroom where negatives are developed.

I'm convinced that about half of what separates the successful entrepreneurs from the non-successful ones is pure perseverance.

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I didn't see it then, but it turned out that getting fired from Apple was the best thing that could have ever happened to me. The heaviness of being successful was replaced by the lightness of being a beginner again, less sure about everything. It freed me to enter one of the most creative periods of my life.

It comes from saying no to 1,000 things to make sure we don't get on the wrong track or try to do too much.

I always advice people—Don't wait ! Do something when you are young, when you have no responsibilities. Invest time in yourself to have great Experiences that are going to enrich you, then you can't possibly lose.

I think we're having fun. I think our customers really like our products. And we're always trying to do better.

I'm the only person I know that's lost a quarter of a billion dollars in one year.… It's very character-building.

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 how it should be, because death is very likely the single best invention of life. It's life's change agent. It clears out the old to make way for the new.

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