25 Wise, Inspiring Steve Job Quotes That’ll Make You Want To Change by FitSmallBusiness.com

Remembering that you are going to die

is the best way I know to avoid the

trap of thinking you have something to

lose. You are already naked.

There is no reason not to follow your

heart.

I think if you do something and it turns out pretty good, then you should go do

something else wonderful, not

dwell on it for too long. Just figure out

what’s next.

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.

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.

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, karma, whatever. This approach

has never let me down, and it has made all the

difference in my life.

No one wants to die. Even people who want to go to heaven don’t want to die to get there. And yet

death is the destination we all share. No one has ever escaped it. And that is as it should be, because Death is very likely the single best invention of Life. It is Life’s change agent. It clears out the old to make

way for the new. Right now the new is you, but someday not too

long from now, you will gradually become the old and be cleared

away. Sorry to be so dramatic, but it is quite true.

If you don’t love something, you’re not going to go the extra mile, work the extra

weekend, challenge the status quo as much.

You’ve baked a really lovely

cake, but then you’ve used dog shit for frosting.

The heaviness of being successful was

replaced by the lightness of being a

beginner again — less sure about

everything. It freed me to enter one of the most creative periods

of my life.

If you keep your eye on the profit, you’re

going to skimp on the product. But if you

focus on making really great

products, then the profits will follow.

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. They somehow already

know what you truly want to become. Everything else is secondary.

I’m convinced that about half of what

separates the successful

entrepreneurs from the non-successful

ones is pure perseverance.

Deciding what not to do is as important as

deciding what to do.

But innovation comes from people meeting up

in the hallways or calling each other at 10:30 at night with a new idea, or because

they realized something that shoots holes in how

we’ve been thinking about a problem.

If you really look closely, most

overnight successes took a

long time.

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.

Design is not just what it looks like

and feels like. Design is how it

works.

Here’s to the crazy ones — the misfits, the rebels, the troublemakers, the

round pegs in the square holes. The ones who see things differently — they’re not fond of rules. You can quote them, disagree with them,

glorify or vilify them, but the only thing you can’t do is ignore them because they change things. They

push the human race forward, and while some may see them as the

crazy ones, we see genius, because the ones who are crazy enough to

think that they can change the world, are the ones who do.

Things don’t have to change the world to be

important.

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. But it’s worth

it in the end because once you get there, you can move mountains.

Details matter, it’s

worth waiting to get it right.

Sometimes life is going to hit

you in the head with a brick.

Don’t lose faith.

We’re here to put a dent in the universe.

Otherwise why else even

be here?

Let’s go invent tomorrow instead of worrying

about what happened yesterday.

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