Steve Jobs Biography Quotes

As Osborne famously declared, "Adequacy is sufficient. All else is superfluous." Jobs found that approach to be morally appalling, and he spent days making fun of Osborne. "This guy just doesn't get it," Jobs repeatedly railed as he wandered the Apple corridors. "He's not making art, he's making shit. ~ Walter Isaacson

It's not the consumers' job to figure out what they want ~ Steve Jobs

I've been rejected, but I am still in love. ~ Steve Jobs

The Christian Church has put a spiritual hierarchy on jobs. Ministers and missionaries are on top, then perhaps doctors and nurses come next, and so on to the bottom, where artists appear. Artists of whatever kind have to compromise everything to entertain. Art is fluffy froth that is no good in the Kingdom of God. What nonsense. ~ Steve Taylor

I wish developing great products was as easy as writing a check. If that was the case, Microsoft would have great products. ~ Steve Jobs

Alejandro Jodorowsky is one of the supreme nut jobs in movie history, and of course I mean that in the nicest way. ~ Steve Erickson

One of my beliefs very strongly is that any democracy depends on a free, healthy press. ~ Steve Jobs

What I loved about bike racing was that it was not a mainstream sport. My heroes were self-made. There were no coaches, no training centers, and only a handful of sponsors. Training rides were not totally devoted to bike talk. I got to know a lot of riders this way, not just as good sprinters or good climbers, but as people who had ideas different from mine, jobs different from mine, and dreams different from mine. ~ Steve Tesich

Technology is nothing. What's important is that you have a faith in people, that they're basically good and smart, and if you give them tools, they'll do wonderful things with them. ~ Steve Jobs

You cannot mandate productivity, you must provide the tools to let people become their best. ~ Steve Jobs

We truly could have used the later Jobs in earlier years at Apple, is what I feel. ~ Steve Wozniak

The people who built Silicon Valley were engineers. They learned business, they learned a lot of different things, but they had a real belief that humans, if they worked hard with other creative, smart people, could solve most of humankind's problems. I believe that very much. ~ Steve Jobs

Look at someone like Steve Jobs. His look wasn't very special - black turtleneck and jeans - but he had style. He looked the same, and you knew it was him when you saw him. Plus, he was a very smart person, which is also very attractive. His style was simple, not distracting, and very strong. ~ Carine Roitfeld

The only problem with Microsoft is they just have no taste. They have absolutely no taste. And I don't mean that in a small way, I mean that in a big way, in the sense that they don't think of original ideas, and they don't bring much culture into their products. ~ Steve Jobs

Because believing that the dots will connect down the road will give you the confidence to follow your heart even when it leads you off the well worn path. ~ Steve Jobs

You know, my main reaction to this money thing is that it's humorous, all the attention to it, because it's hardly the most insightful or valuable thing that's happened to me. ~ Steve Jobs

Breakthrough is how to distinguish a leader and who followed ~ Steve Jobs

The Steve Jobs who founded Apple as an anarchic company promoting the message of freedom, whose first projects with Stephen Wozniak were pirate boxes and computers with open schematics, would be taken aback by the future that Apple is forging. Today there is no tech company that looks more like the Big Brother from Apple's iconic 1984 commercial than Apple itself, a testament to how quickly power can corrupt. ~ Mike Daisey

I'm truly saddened to learn of Steve Jobs' death. The world rarely sees someone who has had the profound impact Steve has had, the effects of which will be felt for many generations to come. For those of us lucky enough to get to work with him, it's been an insanely great honor. I will miss Steve immensely. ~ Bill Gates

So the fact that the first movie about Steve Jobs was made by a guy who was completely entrepreneurial and outside the film industry, I think is very appropriate. ~ Joshua Michael Stern

If you ask who are the customers of education, the customers of education are the society at large, the employers who hire people, things like that. But ultimately I think the customers are the parents. Not even the students but the parents. The problem that we have in this country is that the customers went away. The customers stopped paying attention to their schools, for the most part. ~ Steve Jobs

When we hire someone, even if they are going to be in marketing, I will have them talk to the design folks and the engineers. ~ Steve Jobs

Steve Jobs and Apple taught us that profit is not the ultimate goal, but rather a consequence of something greater. ~ Clayton Christensen

Steve Jobs, if he had lived, was gonna design an iCar. I think cars have an extraordinary opportunity for cool design. ~ Mickey Drexler

For many people, changing course is also a sign of weakness, tantamount to admitting that you don't know what you are doing. This strikes me as particularly bizarre - personally, I think the person who can't change his or her mind is dangerous. Steve Jobs was known for changing his mind instantly in the light of new facts, and I don't know anyone who thought he was weak. ~ Ed Catmull

I don't need a hard disk in my computer if I can get to the server faster ... carrying around these non-connected computers is byzantine by comparison. ~ Steve Jobs

I had designed -in high school designed hundreds and hundreds of computers over and over and over, so I developed these skills without ever thinking I'd do it in life as job. ~ Steve Wozniak

We made the buttons on the screen look so good you'll want to lick them. ~ Steve Jobs

Part of what made the Macintosh great was that the people working on it were musicians, poets, and artists, and zoologists, and historians. They also happened to be the best computer scientists in the world. But if it hadn't been computer science, these people would have been doing amazing things in other fields. ~ Steve Jobs

You should never go to a meeting or make a telephone call without a clear idea of what you are trying to achieve. ~ Steve Jobs

This is more than just having a vision. You can see the difference in the often-cited way in which Steve Jobs brought in John Sculley to take over Apple. At the time, Sculley was destined to be the head of Pepsico. The clincher came when Jobs asked him, "How many more years of your life do you want to spend making colored water when you can have an opportunity to come here and change the world?" ~ Warren G. Bennis

You know, you keep on innovating, you keep on making better stuff. And if you always want the latest and greatest, then you have to buy a new iPod at least once a year. ~ Steve Jobs

I was actually a fruitarian at that point in time. I ate only fruit. Now I'm a garbage can like everyone else. And we were about three months late in filing a fictitious business name so I threatened to call the company Apple Computer unless someone suggested a more interesting name by five o'clock that day. Hoping to stimulate creativity. And it stuck. And that's why we're called Apple. ~ Steve Jobs

Everyone here has the sense that right now is one of those moments when we are influencing the future. ~ Steve Jobs

School was pretty hard for me at the beginning. ~ Steve Jobs

The most precious resource we have is time. ~ Steve Jobs

Focusing is all about saying no ~ Steve Jobs

I thought Steve Jobs was amazing. He was such a great businessman. Someone that has just been really continually successful with their brand and hasn't gone away, Madonna is incredible. We've all kind of listened to her for years and seen her grow up and change, and she's never strayed away from who she is. ~ Tabatha Coffey

It's not about pop culture, and it's not about fooling people, and it's not about convincing people that they want something they don't. We figure out what we want. And I think we're pretty good at having the right discipline to think through whether a lot of other people are going to want it, too. That's what we get paid to do. ~ Steve Jobs