You have to be burning with “an idea, or a problem, or a wrong that you want to right.” If you’re not passionate enough from the start, you’ll never stick it out.
STEVE JOBSThat’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. But it’s worth it in the end because once you get there, you can move mountains.
More Steve Jobs Quotes
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Let’s go invent tomorrow.
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Without passion, any rational person would give up!
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The day I was born songs were on records, phones were tied down, computers needed rooms and the web was fiction. Change the world. You can.
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Great things in business are never done by one person, they’re done by a team of people.
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You can’t win on innovation unless you have a way to communicate it to customers.
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Without death there would be very little progress.
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If you don’t cannibalize yourself, someone else will.
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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.
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If you keep your eye on the profit, you’re going to skimp on the product. But if you focus on making really great products, then the profits will follow.
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We don’t settle for anything less than excellence.
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Intuition is a very powerful thing, more powerful than intellect.
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Strategy is figuring out what not to do.
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The hardest thing when you think about focusing. You think focusing is about saying “Yes.” No. Focusing is about saying “No.” And when you say “No,” you piss off people.
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I’m convinced that about half of what separates successful entrepreneurs from the non-successful ones is pure perseverance.
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The real art is knowing what to leave out, not what to put in.
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