If you live each day as it was your last, someday you'll most certainly be right Steve Jobs More Quotes by Steve Jobs More Quotes From Steve Jobs 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 perspective inspiring people And we've all chosen to do this with our lives. So it better be damn good. It better be worth it. Steve Jobs chosen damn inspirational Focusing is about saying No. Steve Jobs swimming power inspirational 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 care trying thinking 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-confidence environment levels 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 perseverance passion successful 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 jobs life moving 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 innovation technology thinking 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-job track life 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 agents next perfection 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 technology inspirational mean Great engineers are a huge multiplier. Steve Jobs engineers huge 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 technology figures trying 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 memorable inspiring thinking 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-university best-job inspirational 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 taken firsts thinking 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 insightful money humorous I think we're having fun. I think our customers really like our products. And we're always trying to do better. Steve Jobs success fun inspirational Pixar is the most technically advanced creative company; Apple is the most creatively advanced technical company. Steve Jobs apples technology creative We've gone through the operating system and looked at everything and asked how can we simplify this and make it more powerful at the same time. Steve Jobs operating-systems powerful gone
