Top 10 Best Steve Jobs Quotes

Steve Jobs was a corporate executive, computer designer and the co-founder of Apple computers. He remains a great inspiration in the tech world. He had a vision for quality and affordable computers, and he successfully built one of the largest industries in this century.He was born on 24th February 1955 in California. He was born to Abdulfattah Jandali and Joanne Schieble, who were unwed then, they then decided to put up the young Steve for adoption. A machinist Paul job, who was married to Clara Jobs, adopted him. Steve and his new family, transferred to Mountain View, an area just south of what is today popularly known as Silicon Valley.Steve showed interest in gadgetry and electronics at a very tender age. He was a friend of a neighbor, who owned a garage workshop and was also working with HP, (Hewlett-Packard) company. Job would later, enroll in HP, giving him an opportunity to interact with engineers and at the age of 12, he interacted with a computer.When Job was in high school, he was lucky as he got an opportunity to attend lectures at HP plant. It is during this time that Jobs was seen as brave when he approached, William Hewlett, the then HP president to offer him some computer parts, for his class project. The CEO was impressed, and he gave him the parts.In 1972 after graduating from high school, he attended Reed College for 2 years; he later dropped out of school to visit India for one semester. In 1975, Steve joined Homebrew Computer Club, where he met Steve Wozniak, technical whiz, who was then trying to build a small computer. Steve was so fascinated and in 1976, they formed Apple Computer Company. The name Apple was from a summer that Job spent picking apples. The two raised startup worth, $1300. Job and Wozniak identified the huge gap in the market. During that time, computers were mainframes. Because of their sizes, they could fill a whole room. In 1977, Apple introduced Apple II, when they recorded an impressive sales figure of $2.7 million. Within 3 years, the company’s sales grew to $200 million; this was a history record in the corporate world.Jobs life at Apple was full of twisting turns, up and downs. On 5th October 2011, Job passed on while being surrounded by his close family members.

Best 10 Steve Jobs Quote

1. “Your time is limited, don’t waste it living someone else’s life. Don’t be trapped by dogma, which is living the result of other people’s thinking. Don’t let the noise of other opinions drown your own inner voice. And most important, have the courage to follow your heart and intuition, they somehow already know what you truly want to become. Everything else is secondary.” Steve Jobs

2. That’s been one of my mantras — focus and simplicity. Simple can be harder than complex; you have to work hard to get your thinking clean to make it simple.” Steve Jobs

3. “That’s been one of my mantras — focus and simplicity. Simple can be harder than complex; you have to work hard to get your thinking clean to make it simple.” Steve Jobs

4. We don’t get a chance to do that many things, and every one should be really excellent. Because this is our life. Life is brief, and then you die, you know? And we’ve all chosen to do this with our lives. So it better be damn good. It better be worth it.” Steve Jobs

5. 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 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.” Steve Jibs

6. “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.” Steve Jobs

7. “You can’t connect the dots looking forward; you can only connect them looking backwards. So you have to trust that the dots will somehow connect in your future. You have to trust in something — your gut, destiny, life, and karma, whatever. This approach has never let me down, and it has made all the difference in my life.” Steve Jobs

8. “Your work is going to fill a large part of your life, and the only way to be truly satisfied is to do what you believe is great work. And the only way to do great work is to love what you do” Steve Jobs

9. “Being the richest man in the cemetery doesn’t matter to me … going to bed at night saying we’ve done something wonderful… that’s what matters to me.” Steve Jobs

10. “For the past 33 years, I have looked in the mirror every morning and asked myself: ‘If today were the last day of my life, would I want to do what I am about to do today?’ And whenever the answer has been ‘No’ for too many days in a row, I know I need to change something.” Steve Jobs