Steve Jobs Steve used to start his employee retreats by his famous "Sayings from Chairman Jobs" — he was a great person to qu...
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Steve used to start his employee retreats by his famous "Sayings from Chairman Jobs" — he was a great person to quote indeed
Be a yardstick of quality. Some people aren't used to an environment where excellence is expected.
Innovation distinguishes between a leader and a follower.
I want to put a ding in the universe.
Sometimes when you innovate, you make mistakes. It is best to admit them quickly, and get on with improving your other innovations.
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.
Sometimes life is going to hit you in the head with a brick. Don't lose faith.
Design is not just what it looks like and feels like. Design is how it works.
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.
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.
Do you want to spend the rest of your life selling sugared water or do you want a chance to change the world?
That’s been one of my mantras — focus and simplicity. Simple can be harder than complex; you have to work hard to get your thinking clean to make it simple
Your time is limited, don’t waste it living someone else’s life. Don’t be trapped by dogma, which is living the result of other people’s thinking. Don’t let the noise of other opinions drown 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.
Quality is much better than quantity. One home run is much better than two doubles.
That’s been one of my mantras — focus and simplicity. Simple can be harder than complex; you have to work hard to get your thinking clean to make it simple.
We don’t get a chance to do that many things, and every one should be really excellent. Because this is our life. Life is brief, and then you die, you know? And we’ve all chosen to do this with our lives. So it better be damn good. It better be worth it.
I think if you do something and it turns out pretty good, then you should go do something else wonderful, not dwell on it for too long. Just figure out what’s next.
When you’re a carpenter making a beautiful chest of drawers, you’re not going to use a piece of plywood on the back, even though it faces the wall and nobody will see it. You’ll know it’s there, so you’re going to use a beautiful piece of wood on the back. For you to sleep well at night, the aesthetic, the quality, has to be carried all the way through.
