When you’re in a startup, the first ten people will determine whether the company succeeds or not. Steve Jobs More Quotes by Steve Jobs More Quotes From Steve Jobs Believe things will work out. How was I ever to know that the girl who broke my heart in university would lead to my soulmate? How was I to know that the ‘dream job’ I was rejected from out of college would lead me to a year of entrepreneurship and adventure in Spain? How was I to know that taking a miserable job back in the states would be just the push I needed to vow to never do something I wasn’t passionate about again? Everything works out. I mean everything. As long as you believe it will. When you do, you will find the silver lining. That will take you to the next level. Steve Jobs soulmategirldream The most powerful person in the world is the story teller. Steve Jobs visionpowerfulworld the people who are crazy enough to think they can change the world are the ones who do. Steve Jobs motivationalinspirationallife Whatever you do, you must never let the voice in your head control the brain in your heart. Steve Jobs voicebrainheart Have the courage to follow your heart and intuition. Steve Jobs stanford-universityheartgraduation Don't just live a life; build one. Steve Jobs just-live 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. Steve Jobs creativityartistinspirational In the first 30 years of your life, you make your habits. For the last 30 years of your life, your habits make you. Steve Jobs lastsyearsfirsts 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. Steve Jobs best-jobwallbeautiful When you grow up, you tend to get told that the world is the way it is, and your life is just to live your life inside the world. Try not to bash into the walls too much. Try to have a nice family life. Have fun, save a little money. That's a very limited life. Life can be much broader, once you discover one simple fact, and that is everything around that you call life was made up by people who were no smarter than you. And you can change it. You can influence it. You can build your own things that other people can use. Once you learn that, you'll never be the same again. Steve Jobs wallgrowing-upfun If you want to hire great people and have them stay, you have to be run by ideas, not hierarchy. The best ideas have to win. Steve Jobs winningrunningideas Do your best at every job. Don't sleep! Success generates more success so be hungry for it. Hire good people with a passion for excellence. Steve Jobs passionsleepjobs If you haven't found it yet, keep looking. Don't settle. As with all matters of the heart, you'll know when you find it. And, like any great relationship, it just gets better and better as the years roll on. Steve Jobs graduationinspirationallife 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. Because almost everything - all external expectations, all pride, all fear of embarrassment or failure - these things just fall away in the face of death, leaving only what is truly important. Steve Jobs failurefearlife Everything around you that you call life was made up by people that were no smarter than you and you can change it, you can influence it, you can build your own things that other people can use. Steve Jobs best-jobleadershippeople When you first start off trying to solve a problem, the first solutions you come up with are very complex, and most people stop there. But if you keep going, and live with the problem and peel more layers of the onion off, you can often times arrive at some very elegant and simple solutions. Steve Jobs persistencesimpleinspirational None of us are as creative as all of us. Steve Jobs creativitycreative You know we're constantly taking. We don't make most of the food we eat, we don't grow it, anyway. We wear clothes other people make, we speak a language other people developed, we use a mathematics other people evolved and spent their lives building. I mean we're constantly taking things. It's a wonderful ecstatic feeling to create something and put it into the pool of human experience and knowledge. Steve Jobs sciencemeanknowledge 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 artistmemorableinspiring My favorite things in life don't cost any money. It's really clear that the most precious resource we all have is time. Steve Jobs moneytimeinspirational
