Steve Jobs

I thought deeply about this. I ended up concluding that the worst thing that could possibly happen as we get big and as we get a little more influence in the world is if we change our core values and start letting it slide, I can’t do that. I’d rather quit.

Steve Jobs

I was worth about over a million dollars when I was twenty-three and over ten million dollars when I was twenty-four, and over a hundred million dollars when I was twenty-five and it wasn’t that important because I never did it for the money.

Steve Jobs

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

Steve Jobs

I’m an optimist in the sense that I believe humans are noble and honorable, and some of them are really smart. I have a very optimistic view of individuals.

Steve Jobs

I’m not dismissing the value of higher education; I’m simply saying it comes at the expense of experience.

Steve Jobs

I’m one of the few people who understands how producing technology requires intuition and creativity, and how producing something artistic takes real discipline.

Steve Jobs

I’m the only person I know that’s lost a quarter of a billion dollars in one year. It’s very character-building.

Steve Jobs

If a user is having a problem, it’s our problem.

Steve Jobs

If you wanna hire great people and have them stay working for you, you have to be run by ideas, not hierarchy. The best ideas have to win, otherwise good people don’t stay.

Steve Jobs

If you want to live your life in a creative way, as an artist, you have to not look back too much. You have to be willing to take whatever you’ve done and whoever you were and throw them away.

Steve Jobs