This definitely marks one of the saddest
days of my life. A mentor and a great visionary has left us. He has
inspired the world through his dedication for innovation. He is
considered to be the Thomas Edison of our times. With his death, an era
ends. Compiled below is a list of some of the famous and best quotes
from Steve Job that speaks of his experiences.
He Wasn’t Proud
“Being the richest man in the cemetery
doesn’t matter to me. Going to bed at night saying we have done
something wonderful, that’s what matters to me”.
He Was Intelligent
“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”.
He Was Smart
“Sometimes when you innovate, you make
mistakes. It is best to admit them quickly and get on with improving
your other innovations”.
He Wasn’t Greedy
“I was worth over $ 1,000,000 when I was
23, and over $ 10,000,000 when I was 24, and over $ 100,000,000 when I
was 25, and it wasn’t that important because I never did it for money”.
He Had Class
“We made the buttons on the screen so good you’ll want to lick them”.
He Was Obsessed With Quality Work
“When you’re a carpenter making a
beautiful chest of drawers, you’re not going to use a piece of plywood
on the back, even though it faces the wall and nobody will ever see it.
You’ll know it’s there, so you’re going to use a beautiful piece of wood
on the back. For you to sleep well at night, the aesthetic, the
quality, has to be carried all the way through”.
He Was Experienced
“Creativity is just connecting things.
When you ask creative people how they did something, they feel a little
guilty because they didn’t really do it, they just saw something. It
seemed obvious to them after a while. That’s because they were able to
connect experiences they’ve had and synthesize new things. And the
reason they were able to do that was that they’ve had more experiences
or they have thought more about their experiences than other people”.
He Had the Answers
“When you’re young, you look at
television and think, there’s a conspiracy. The networks have conspired
to dumb us down. But when you get a little older, you realize that’s not
true. The networks are in business to give people exactly what they
want. That’s a far more depressing thought. Conspiracy is optimistic!
You can shoot the bastards! We can have a revolution! But the networks
are really in business to give people what they want. It’s the truth”.
He believed in life
“No one wants to die. Even the people
who want to go to heaven don’t want to die and get there. And yet, death
is the destination we all share. No one has ever escaped it, and that
is how it should be, because death is very likely the single best
invention of life. It’s life’s change agent. It clears out the old to
make way for the new”.
He was the best
“Remembering that I’ll be dead soon is the most important tool I’ve ever encountered to help me make the big choices in life”.
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