Mar 3, 20203 min read

Steve Jobs: Best 30 Quotes For You

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.
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.
Don’t let the noise of others’ opinions drown out your own inner voice.
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 important, have the courage to follow your heart and intuition.
Do not try to do everything. Do one thing well.
Do you create anything, or just criticize others work and belittle their motivations?
Your work is going to fill a large part of your life... so love what you do. Your time is limited. Don't waste it.
If you define the problem correctly, you almost have the solution.
The most important decisions you make are not the things you do, but the things you decide not to do.
You can tell a lot about a person by who his or her heroes are.
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.
In the first 30 years of your life, you make your habits. For the last 30 years of your life, your habits make you.
Start small, think big. Don’t worry about too many things at once. Take a handful of simple things, to begin with, and then progress to more complex ones. Think about not just tomorrow, but the future. Put a ding in the universe.
It takes a lot of hard work to make something simple.
Let's go invent tomorrow instead of worrying about what happened yesterday.
Learn continually - there's always "one more thing" to learn!
I think death is the most wonderful invention of life. It purges the system of these old models that are obsolete.
Everything is based on a simple rule: Quality is the best business plan, period.
Your customers don't care about you. They don't care about your product or service. They care about themselves, their dreams, their goals. Now, they will care much more if you help them reach their goals, and to do that, you must understand their goals, as well as their needs and deepest desires.
The people who are crazy enough to think they can change the world are the ones who do.
Your time is limited, so don't waste it living someone else's life.
Remembering that I'll be dead soon is the most important tool I've ever encountered to help me make the big choices in life. Because almost everything - all external expectations, all pride, all fear of embarrassment or failure - these things just fall away in the face of death, leaving only what is truly important.
It's not the consumers' job to figure out what they want.
If you're afraid of failing you won't get very far.
Customers don't measure you on how hard you tried, they measure you on what you deliver.
You can't look at the competition and say you're going to do it better. You have to look at the competition and say you're going to do it differently.
Your work is going to fill a large part of your life, and the only way to be truly satisfied is to do what you believe is great work. And the only way to do great work is to love what you do. If you haven't found it yet, keep looking. Don't settle. As with all matters of the heart, you'll know when you find it.
Deciding what not to do is as important as deciding what to do.
Have the courage to follow your heart and intuition.
The most powerful person in the world is the storyteller. The storyteller sets the vision, values and agenda of an entire generation that is to come.