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Best STEVE JOBS Quotes to Inspire and Motivate You

Steve Jobs is quoted not because he offered business slogans, but because he articulated recurring tensions in creative work: focus versus distraction, craftsmanship versus compromise, and intuition versus convention. His ideas repeatedly return to the challenge of making difficult choices, eliminating the unnecessary, and creating products around human experience rather than technical possibility. Many of his most enduring quotes are really decision-making frameworks disguised as observations, which is why they remain useful far beyond the technology industry. Readers turn to Jobs not for management formulas but for a way of thinking that treats clarity, simplicity, and relentless refinement as competitive advantages whenever meaningful work must be created.

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It takes around five years to create a commercial product that takes advantage of a technology window.

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I've always found it best not to compromise and just keep chipping away.

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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.

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The only way to do great work is to love what you do

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Don't let the noise of others' opinions drown out your own inner voice.

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

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So keep looking. Don't settle

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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.

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Technology windows open, and eventually they close.

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Warehouses are bad because you tend to put things in them.

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The biggest thing that's changed is that I take a longer-term view on people.

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A lot of times you don't know what your competitive advantage is when you launch a new product.

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have the courage to follow your heart and intuition. They somehow already know what you truly want to become. Everything else is secondary.

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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.

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I'm convinced that the only thing that kept me going was that I loved what I did

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Remember that man lives only in the present, in this fleeting instant; all the rest of his life is either past and gone, or not yet revealed.

  • Marcus Aurelius

We want to own either all or a portion of businesses that enjoy good economics that are fundamental and enduring.

  • Warren Buffet

The art of living is more like wrestling than dancing.

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"Remember that this body will soon lie in the earth without life, without value, useless as a rotten log."

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One must travel, to learn. Every day, now, old Scriptural phrases that never possessed any significance for me before, take to themselves a meaning.

  • Mark Twain

"Diotima observes that people strive for immortal fame through virtuous deeds."

  • Plato

“Wishing to be friends is quick work, but friendship is a slow ripening fruit.”

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The opposite of anger is not calmness, its empathy.

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For all our failings, despite our limitations and fallibilities, we humans are capable of greatness.

  • Carl Sagan

Man’s goodness is a flame that can be hidden but never extinguished.

  • Nelson Mandela

My best skill was that I was coachable. I was a sponge and aggressive to learn.

  • Michael Jordan

Give into the power of the teacher the fewest possible coercive measures, so that the only source of the pupil's respect for the teacher is the human and intellectual qualities of the latter.

  • Albert Einstein
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