My Favorite Steve Jobs Quotes

Steve Jobs touched many people with his passion and creativity for making beautiful things, and his legacy lives on through his company and the many motivational thoughts he shared with the world.

Some of my favorite Steve Jobs quotes are:

1. “The people who are crazy enough to think they can change the world are the ones who do.”

2. “Getting fired from Apple was the best thing that could have ever happened to me. The heaviness of being successful was replaced by the lightness of being a beginner again. It freed me to enter one of the most creative periods of my life.”

3. “I’m as proud of many of the things we haven’t done as the things we have done. Innovation is saying no to a thousand things.”

4. “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. 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.”

5. “My model for business is The Beatles: They were four guys that kept each others’ negative tendencies in check; they balanced each other. And the total was greater than the sum of the parts.”

6. “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.”

7. “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.”

8. “I’m convinced that about half of what separates successful entrepreneurs from the non-successful ones is pure perseverance.”

9. “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.”

10. “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.”

11. “Have the courage to follow your heart and intuition. They somehow know what you truly want to become.”

12. “Sometimes life is going to hit you in the head with a brick. Don’t lose faith.”