How can you get fired from the company you started? Steve Jobs More Quotes by Steve Jobs More Quotes From Steve Jobs The problem with the Internet startup craze isn't that too many people are starting companies; it's that too many people aren't sticking with it. That's somewhat understandable, because there are many moments that are filled with despair and agony, when you have to fire people and cancel things and deal with very difficult situations. That's when you find out who you are and what your values are. Steve Jobs difficult-situationsagonybusiness A lot of people in our industry haven't had very diverse experiences. So they don't have enough dots to connect, and they end up with very linear solutions without a broad perspective on the problem. The broader one's understanding of the human experience, the better design we will have. Steve Jobs perspectiveinspiringpeople And we've all chosen to do this with our lives. So it better be damn good. It better be worth it. Steve Jobs chosendamninspirational Focusing is about saying No. Steve Jobs swimmingpowerinspirational I don't want to fail, of course. But even though I didn't know how bad things really were, I still had a lot to think about before I said yes. I had to consider the implications for Pixar, for my family, for my reputation. I decided that I didn't really care, because this is what I want to do. If I try my best and fail, well, I've tried my best. Steve Jobs caretryingthinking It gave a tremendous level of self-confidence, that through exploration and learning one could understand seemingly very complex things in one's environment. Steve Jobs self-confidenceenvironmentlevels I'm convinced that about half of what separates the successful entrepreneurs from the non-successful ones is pure perseverance... Unless you have a lot of passion about this, you're not going to survive. You're going to give it up. So you've got to have an idea, or a problem or a wrong that you want to right that you're passionate about otherwise you're not going to have the perseverance to stick it through. Steve Jobs perseverancepassionsuccessful So when a good idea comes, you know, part of my job is to move it around, just see what different people think, get people talking about it, argue with people about it, get ideas moving among that group of 100 people, get different people together to explore different aspects of it quietly, and, you know – just explore things. Steve Jobs jobslifemoving I think the biggest innovations of the 21st century will be at the intersection of biology and technology. A new era is beginning. Steve Jobs innovationtechnologythinking It comes from saying no to 1,000 things to make sure we don't get on the wrong track or try to do too much. Steve Jobs best-jobtracklife You'll see more and more perfection of that - computer as servant. But the next thing is going to be computer as a guide or agent. Steve Jobs agentsnextperfection The only problem with Microsoft is they just have no taste. They have absolutely no taste. And I don't mean that in a small way, I mean that in a big way, in the sense that they don't think of original ideas, and they don't bring much culture into their products. Steve Jobs technologyinspirationalmean Great engineers are a huge multiplier. Steve Jobs engineershuge You've got to start with the customer experience and work backwards to the technology. You can't start with the technology and try to figure out where you're going to sell it. Steve Jobs technologyfigurestrying Ultimately, it comes down to taste. It comes down to trying to expose yourself to the best things that humans have done and then try to bring those things into what you're doing. Picasso had a saying: good artists copy, great artists steal. And we have always been shameless about stealing great ideas, and I think part of what made the Macintosh great was that the people working on it were musicians and poets and artists and zoologists and historians who also happened to be the best computer scientists in the world. Steve Jobs memorableinspiringthinking You've got to find what you love. And that is as true for your work as it is for your lovers. Steve Jobs stanford-universitybest-jobinspirational I think this is the start of something really big. Sometimes that first step is the hardest one, and we've just taken it. Steve Jobs takenfirststhinking You know, my main reaction to this money thing is that it's humorous, all the attention to it, because it's hardly the most insightful or valuable thing that's happened to me. Steve Jobs insightfulmoneyhumorous I think we're having fun. I think our customers really like our products. And we're always trying to do better. Steve Jobs successfuninspirational Pixar is the most technically advanced creative company; Apple is the most creatively advanced technical company. Steve Jobs applestechnologycreative
