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Motivating Thoughts of Steve Jobs

Book by Steve Jobs · 8 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.”

“My job is to not be easy on people. My job is to make them better. My job is to pull things together from different parts of the company and clear the ways and get the resources for the key projects. And to take these great people we have and to push them and make them even better, coming up with more aggressive visions of how it could be.”

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

“A lot of companies have chosen to downsize, and maybe that was the right thing for them. We chose a different path. Our belief was that if we kept putting great products in front of customers, they would continue to open their wallets.”