The most important decisions you make are not the things you do, but the things you decide not to do.
STEVE JOBSManagement is about persuading people to do things they do not want to do, while leadership is about inspiring people to do things they never thought they could.
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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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It’s better to be a pirate than to join the Navy.
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You can’t just ask customers what they want and then try to give that to them. By the time you get it built, they’ll want something new.
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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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A brand is simply trust.
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It’s not a faith in technology. It’s faith in people.
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Sometimes life is going to hit you in the head with a brick. Don’t lose faith.
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The only way to be truly satisfied is to do what you believe is great work
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You can tell a lot about a person by who his or her heroes are.
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Pursue your dreams and see the opportunities in life’s setbacks.
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Most people never pick up the phone and call. Most people never ask, and that’s what separates the people who do things from the people who just dream about them.
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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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Let’s go invent tomorrow.
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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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Have the courage to follow your heart and intuition. They somehow already know what you truly want to become. Everything else is secondary.
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You have to trust in something–your gut, destiny, life, karma, whatever.
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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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If you define the problem correctly, you almost have the solution.
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Details matter, it’s worth waiting to get it right.
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Deciding what not to do is as important as deciding what to do.
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Quality is more important than quantity. One home run is much better than two doubles.
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I would trade all of my technology for an afternoon with Socrates.
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The best way to create value in the 21st century is to connect Creativity with Technology.
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Stay hungry, stay foolish.
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I want to put a ding in the universe.
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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.
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