Steve Jobs Quotes

The most powerful person in the world is the story teller. The storyteller sets the vision, values and agenda of an entire generation that is to come.
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Agenda Generation Person Powerful Story Value Vision World
It takes a lot of hard work to make something simple.
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Business Hard Work Minimalism One Liner Simplicity
If you are working on something exciting that you really care about, you don’t have to be pushed. The vision pulls you.
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Business Care Entrepreneur Excitement Vision Work
Let’s go invent tomorrow instead of worrying about what happened yesterday.
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Business Future Happen Inspirational Invention Past Worry
You can tell a lot about a person by who his or her heroes are.
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Hero Person Role Model Story
I sat in a garage and invented the future.
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Entrepreneur Future Garage Invention One Liner Success
It’s better to be a pirate than to join the Navy.
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Army Navy Pirate
The mark of an innovative company is not only that it comes up with new ideas first, but also that it knows how to leapfrog when it finds itself behind.
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Business Company Finding Ideas Innovation
You have to trust that the dots will somehow connect in your future.
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Business Connect Trust
None of us are as creative as all of us.
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Business Creation Deep Inspirational One Liner
Without passion, any rational person would give up!
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Give Up Inspirational Passion Person
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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Business Design Focus Group People Product Time
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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Business Focus Money Product Profit
Innovation distinguishes between a leader and a follower.
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Business Distinguish Follower Innovation Leadership
People don’t know what they want until you show it to them. That’s why I never rely on marketing research. Our task is to read things that are not yet on the page.
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Business Market People Reading Research Task
I don’t think of my life as a career. I do stuff. I respond to stuff. That’s not a career – it’s a life!
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Career Entrepreneur Inspirational Life Stuff Thinking
I’m as proud of what we don’t do as I am of what we do.
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Business Confidence Entrepreneur Hard Work Proud
You can’t look at the competition and say you’re going to do it better. You have to look at the competition and say you’re going to do it differently.
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Business Competition Success
Stay hungry, stay foolish.
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Entrepreneur Foolish Hungry Inspirational One Liner Stay
Creativity comes from spontaneous meetings, from random discussions.
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Business Creative Discussion Leadership Meet
We have always been shameless about stealing great ideas.
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Business Guilty Ideas Regret Shame Steal
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.
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Bed Entrepreneur Inspirational Man Night Rich Satisfaction Wonderful
I’m convinced that about half of what separates successful entrepreneurs from the non-successful ones is pure perseverance.
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Convinced Entrepreneur Perseverance Separate Success
I want to put a ding in the universe.
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Universe Want
If you’re afraid of failing you won’t get very far.
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Afraid Business Failure Inspirational Risk
Learn continually – there’s always “one more thing” to learn!
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Business Inspirational Knowledge Learning
If you define the problem correctly, you almost have the solution.
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Business Inspirational Problem Solution

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