“Your work is going to fill a large part of your life, and the only way to be truly satisfied is to do what you believe is great work. Innovation is saying no to a thousand things.”ĩ. “I’m as proud of many of the things we haven’t done as the things we have done. A lot of times, people don't know what they want until you show it to them.” Steve Jobs Quotes on WorkĨ. “It's really hard to design products by focus groups. It freed me to enter one of the most creative periods of my life.”ħ. The heaviness of being successful was replaced by the lightness of being a beginner again. “Getting fired from Apple was the best thing that could have ever happened to me. There is no reason not to follow your heart.”Ħ.
“Remembering that you are going to die is the best way I know to avoid the trap of thinking you have something to lose. And you usually go through a period where everybody tells you that you’ve completely failed.”ĥ. “I’ve always been attracted to the more revolutionary changes. As with all matters of the heart, you’ll know when you find it.”Ĥ. If you haven’t found it yet, keep looking. And the only way to do great work is to love what you do. “For the past 33 years, I have looked in the mirror every morning and asked myself: ‘If today were the last day of my life, would I want to do what I am about to do today?’ And whenever the answer has been ‘No’ for too many days in a row, I know I need to change something.”ģ. “The people who are crazy enough to think they can change the world are the ones who do.”Ģ. Here are 25 of Steve Jobs’ most popular quotes on life, leadership, and doing really good work.ġ. He touched many with his passion and creativity for making beautiful things, and his legacy lives on through his company and the many motivational thoughts he shared with the world.
Whether you found him polarizing or prophetic, Apple’s late co-founder, Steve Jobs, was certainly eloquent.