2. We made the buttons on the
screen look so good you’ll want
to lick them.” On Mac OS X,
Jan 24, 2000.
3.
“It will go down in history as a
turning point for the music
industry. This is landmark stuff.
I can’t overestimate it!” On the
iTunes Music Store, as told to
Fortune, May 12, 2003.
4.
“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.” Quoted in The Wall
Street Journal, May 25, 1993.
5. “A lot of companies have
chosen to downsize, and
maybe that was the right thing
for them. We chose a different
path. Our belief was that if we
kept putting great products in
front of customers, they would
continue to open their wallets. “
6.
“I wish him the best, I really do. I
just think he and Microsoft are a
bit narrow. He’d be a broader guy
if he had dropped acid once or
gone off to an ashram when he
was younger.” On Bill Gates,
quoted in The New York Times,
Jan. 12, 1997.
7. “It’s more fun to be a pirate
than to join the navy.” On
life, 1982, quoted in Odyssey:
Pepsi to Apple, 1987.
8.
“I'm the only person I know
that's lost a quarter of a billion
dollars in one year.... It's very
character-building.” Apple
Confidential, 2.0
9.
“Sometimes life is going to hit
you in the head with a brick.
Don't lose faith.”
10.
“I’m an optimist in the sense that I believe
humans are noble and honorable, and some of
them are really smart. I have a very optimistic
view of individuals. As individuals, people are
inherently good. I have a somewhat more
pessimistic view of people in groups. And I
remain extremely concerned when I see what’s
happening in our country, which is in many
ways the luckiest place in the world. We don’t
seem to be excited about making our country a
better place for our kids.” [Wired, February
1996]
11. “When I was 17, I read a quote that went
something like: “If you live each day as if it
was your last, someday you’ll most
certainly be right.” It made an impression
on me, and since then, 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.” Stanford
commencement speech, June 2005.
12.
“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. 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.” Stanford
commencement speech, June 2005.