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Motivating Thoughts of Steve Jobs

Book by Steve Jobs · 18 quotes · Best Job, Inspirational, People

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“Part of what made the Macintosh great was that the people working on it were musicians and poets and artists and zoologists and historians who also happened to be the best computer scientists in the world.”

“That's been one of my mantras - focus and simplicity. Simple can be harder than complex.”

“When you ask creative people how they did something, they feel a little guilty because they didn't really do it, they just saw something.”

“Being the richest man in the cemetery doesn't matter to me.”

“Be a yardstick of quality. Some people aren't used to an environment where excellence is expected.”

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

“Design is a funny word. Some people think design means how it looks. But of course, if you dig deeper, it's really how it works.”

“The desktop computer industry is dead. Innovation has virtually ceased. Microsoft dominates with very little innovation. That's over. Apple lost. The desktop market has entered the dark ages, and it's going to be in the dark ages for the next 10 years, or certainly for the rest of this decade.”

“You have to trust in something - your gut, destiny, life, karma, whatever. This approach has never let me down, and it has made all the difference in my life.”

“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. I'm actually as proud of the things we haven't done as the things I have done. Innovation is saying no to 1,000 things.”