Steve Jobs

Technology is nothing. What's important is that you have a faith in people, that they're basically good and smart, and if you give them tools, they'll do wonderful things with them.

Great things in business are never done by one person. They're done by a team of people.

My favorite things in life don't cost any money. It's really clear that the most precious resource we all have is time.

The only thing you have in life is time. Balloons burst, people get sick, people die, everything has an end. You have to conquer your fear and go beyond your fear.

Picasso had a saying: 'Good artists copy, great artists steal.' We have always been shameless about stealing great ideas.

Deciding what not to do is as important as deciding what to do.

That's been one of my mantras — focus and simplicity. Simple can be harder than complex.

Sometimes life hits you in the head with a brick. Don't lose faith.

I was lucky. I found what I loved to do early in life.

You've got to find what you love.

Connecting the dots. You can't connect them looking forward; you can only connect them looking backwards.

Again, 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.

I didn't see it then, but it turned out that getting fired from Apple was the best thing that could have ever happened to me.

Much of what I stumbled into by following my curiosity and intuition turned out to be priceless later on.

I'm the only person in the world who could kill it.

On the back cover of their final issue was a photograph of an early morning country road, the kind you might find yourself hitchhiking on if you were so adventurous. Beneath it were the words: 'Stay Hungry. Stay Foolish.'

We’re here to put a dent in the universe. Otherwise, why else even be here?

The Macintosh is the only computer with personality.

Real artists ship.

It takes 30 years to build a reputation and 30 seconds to ruin it.