12 Memorable Quotes by Steve Jobs That May Change Your Life

Steve Jobs was an entrepreneur, a dreamer and an artist among many things. He had the rare combination of an engineering mind, an artist’s vision and the instincts of a behavioural scientist. Put it all together, and you get a man willing to dedicate a great part of his life to pure product development to advance countless lives. The result gets you more than three world-changing product categories, and arguably his most important product of all, the company that he founded, Apple.

So in memory of this human being who stood at the cusp of Claude Shannon’s age of information and rode the waves of computation and networking since the ’80s, let’s share some of Steve’s rad-est quotes from the archives!

That’s really-hard-focus because you end up incurring a huge opportunity cost in sticking to doing what you’re doing. Quote below.

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This light-footedness probably helped him evolve from designing a product such as the Macintosh to heralding something entirely new like the iPod.

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And his example was an all-time classic of creative collaboration.

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It was the product. Products by product guys for product people, which happens to be anyone who appreciates a better experience and an easier lifestyle — i.e. everyone.

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Or in other words, he looked at a crazy number of variations, permutations and combination to arrive at a solution in possibility space that really was uniquely simple, yet as effective as any other alternative. This is harder than adding many things into your solution to solve your product problem.

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Reaching the core of the issue. Almost like debugging but broader conceptually. Do you know who also thought this way? Claude Shannon.

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Just seeing things better and finding the connections between the seemingly unrelated. Do you know who also thought this way… Claude Shannon.

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On following your passions — enough said.

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And this moves on to doing your best work on things that you love…

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Here’s how Steve put it.

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That’s probably what he meant in this excerpt of his brilliant speech at Stanford.

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Good quotes make an impression and may even impact an entire life. This may have come full circle in the case of Jobs.

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We hope you found something that resonated with you from the little bits of wisdom shared by this great man. We sure did.

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