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STEVE JOBS

Country	United States
Born	Tuesday, 30 November -0001
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Quotes	16

Steve jobs was an American businessman and inventor. He is often regarded as the pioneer of personal computer evolution. He was co-founder, chairman, and chief executive officer of Apple Inc.

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Your time is limited, so don't waste it living someone else's life. Don't be trapped by dogma - which is living with the results of other people's thinking. Don't let the noise of others' opinions drown out your own inner voice. And most important, have the courage to follow your heart and intuition.	Uncategorized
Your time is limited, so don't waste it living someone else's life.	Uncategorized
First the doctor told me the good news: I was going to have a disease named after me.	Uncategorized
Innovation distinguishes between a leader and a follower.	Uncategorized
Be a yardstick of quality. Some people aren't used to an environment where excellence is expected.	Uncategorized
The system is that there is no system. That doesn’t mean we don’t have process. Apple is a very disciplined company, and we have great processes. But that’s not what it’s about. Process makes you more efficient.	Uncategorized
When we create stuff, we do it because we listen to the customer, get their inputs and also throw in what we’d like to see, too. We cook up new products. You never really know if people will love them as much as you do.	Uncategorized
Quality is more important than quantity. One home run is much better than two doubles.	Uncategorized
At Apple we come at everything asking, How easy is this going to be for the user? How great it is going to be for the user?... Everybody says, Oh, the user is the most important thing, but nobody else really does it.	Uncategorized
My model of business is the Beatles. They were four guys who kept each other’s kind of negative tendencies in check...That’s how I see business: great things in business are never done by one person, they’re done by a team of people.	Uncategorized
There is a classic thing in business, which is the second-product syndrome. Often companies that have a really successful first product don’t quite understand why that product was so successful. And so with the second product, their ambitions grow...[and] they fail.	Uncategorized
What happened was, the designers came up with this really great idea... and the engineers go, Nah, we can’t do that, That’s impossible... the manufacturing people...go We can’t build that! And it gets a lot worse...And I said No, no, we’re doing	Uncategorized
Sure what we do has to make commercial sense, but it’s never the starting point. We start with the product and the user experience.	Uncategorized
People think focus means saying yes to the thing you’ve got to focus on. But that’s not what it means at all. It means saying no to the hundred other good ideas...	Uncategorized
You need a very product-oriented culture… Lots of companies have great engineers and smart people...there needs to be some gravitational force that pulls it all together.	Uncategorized
“Your time is limited, so don’t waste it living someone else’s life. Don’t be trapped by dogma — which is living with the results of other people’s thinking. Don’t let the noise of others’ opinions drown out your own inner voice. And most importantly, have the courage to follow your heart and intuition. They somehow already know what you truly want to become. Everything else is secondary.”	Uncategorized