Steve Jobs
Steve Jobs
Steven Paul "Steve" Jobswas an American information technology entrepreneur and inventor. He was the co-founder, chairman, and chief executive officerof Apple Inc.; CEO and majority shareholder of Pixar Animation Studios; a member of The Walt Disney Company's board of directors following its acquisition of Pixar; and founder, chairman, and CEO of NeXT Inc. Jobs is widely recognized as a pioneer of the microcomputer revolution of the 1970s and 1980s, along with Apple co-founder Steve Wozniak. Shortly after his death, Jobs's...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionBusinessman
Date of Birth24 February 1955
CountryUnited States of America
Make it like a sunflower.
Creativity is just connecting things.
Here’s to the crazy ones. The misfits. The rebels. The trouble-makers…..
But it's a disservice to constantly put things in this radical new light - that it's going to change everything. Things don't have to change the world to be important.
Listen to me. We're here to make a dent in the universe. Otherwise why even be here?
Every once in a while a revolutionary product comes along that changes everything. It's very fortunate if you can work on just one of these in your career. Apple's been very fortunate in that it's introduced a few of these.
I think death is the most wonderful invention of life. It purges the system of these old models that are obsolete.
Guess who surprised themselves and changed their minds.
If I knew in 1986 how much it was going to cost to keep Pixar going, I doubt if I would have bought the company.
Pixar is seen by a lot of folks as an overnight success, but if you really look closely, most overnight successes took a long time.
I'm the only person I know that's lost a quarter of a billion dollars in one year. It's very character-building.
You should never go to a meeting or make a telephone call without a clear idea of what you are trying to achieve.
Simplicity is the ultimate sophistication. It takes a lot of hard work to make something simple, to truly understand the underlying challenges and come up with elegant solutions. [...] It's not just minimalism or the absence of clutter. It involves digging through the depth of complexity. To be truly simple, you have to go really deep. [...] You have to deeply understand the essence of a product in order to be able to get rid of the parts that are not essential.
We try to use the talents we do have to express our deep feelings, to show our appreciation of all the contributions that came before us, and to add something to that flow. That's what's driven me.