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

About Steve Jobs

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 Inc. with his early business partner Steve Wozniak as Apple Computer Company in 1976. After the company's board...

More quotations from Steve Jobs

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

—Steve Jobs

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.

—Steve Jobs

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.

—Steve Jobs

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.

—Steve Jobs

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

—Steve Jobs

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