Different Jobs Quotes:

We don't get a chance to do that many things, and every one should be really excellent. Because this is our life. Life is brief, and then you die, you know? So this is what we've chosen to do with our life.

- Steve Jobs

topic: Life, Success, Innovation, Different Jobs, Damn Good

Don't be trapped by dogma — which is living with the results of other people's thinking.

- Steve Jobs

source: Commencement Address at Stanford University, delivered 12 June 2005, Palo Alto, CA

topic: Inspirational, Life, Graduation, Job Growth, Inner Life

Have the courage to follow your heart and intuition.

- Steve Jobs

topic: Heart, Follow Your Heart, Intuition, Inner Voice, Business Life

Good artists copy, great artists steal.

- Pablo Picasso

topic: Creativity, Artist, Design, Copycats, Good Design

Your time is limited, so don't waste it living someone else's life.

- Steve Jobs

source: Commencement Address at Stanford University, delivered 12 June 2005, Palo Alto, CA

topic: Inspirational, Life, Motivational, Interesting Life, Inner Voice

But innovation comes from people meeting up in the hallways or calling each other at 10:30 at night with a new idea, or because they realized something that shoots holes in how we've been thinking about a problem.

- Steve Jobs

topic: Inspirational, Night, Thinking, Innovation And Business, Innovation And Leadership

Things don't have to change the world to be important.

- Steve Jobs

topic: Inspirational, Change, Wisdom, Inspiring Change, Different Jobs

When you're a carpenter making a beautiful chest of drawers, you're not going to use a piece of plywood on the back, even though it faces the wall and nobody will ever see it. You'll know it's there, so you're going to use a beautiful piece of wood on the back.

- Steve Jobs

topic: Beautiful, Wall, Pieces, Carpenter, Different Jobs

You can't just ask customers what they want and then try to give that to them. By the time you get it built, they'll want something new.

- Steve Jobs

topic: Inspirational, Inspiring, Educational, Trying Something New, Innovation And Business

Design is not just what it looks like and feels like. Design is how it works.

- Steve Jobs

topic: Inspiring, Business, Memorable, Veneer, Inspiring Business

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.

- Steve Jobs

topic: Inspirational, Yoga, Passion, Innovation And Business, Innovation And Leadership

Your work is going to fill a large part of your life, and the only way to be truly satisfied is to do what you believe is great work. And the only way to do great work is to love what you do. If you haven't found it yet, keep looking. Don't settle. As with all matters of the heart, you'll know when you find it.

- Steve Jobs

source: Commencement Address at Stanford University, delivered 12 June 2005, Palo Alto, CA

topic: Love, Inspirational, Life, Daily Work, Way In Life

Innovation distinguishes between a leader and a follower.

- Steve Jobs

topic: Inspirational, Life, Motivational, Best Success, Social Innovation

Creativity is just connecting things. When you ask creative people how they did something, they feel a little guilty because they didn't really do it, they just saw something. It seemed obvious to them after a while. That's because they were able to connect experiences they've had and synthesize new things.

- Steve Jobs

topic: Inspirational, Creativity, People, Unique Experiences, Creative People

That's been one of my mantras - focus and simplicity. Simple can be harder than complex: You have to work hard to get your thinking clean to make it simple. But it's worth it in the end because once you get there, you can move mountains.

- Steve Jobs

topic: Inspiring, Moving, Inspiration, Inspiring Change, Design Work

Details matter, it's worth waiting to get it right.

- Steve Jobs

topic: Inspirational, Waiting, Matter, Worth Waiting For, Different Jobs

So when a good idea comes, you know, part of my job is to move it around, just see what different people think, get people talking about it, argue with people about it, get ideas moving among that group of 100 people, get different people together to explore different aspects of it quietly, and, you know – just explore things.

- Steve Jobs

topic: Jobs, Moving, Thinking, Different Jobs

My job is to not be easy on people. My job is to make them better. My job is to pull things together from different parts of the company and clear the ways and get the resources for the key projects. And to take these great people we have and to push them and make them even better, coming up with more aggressive visions of how it could be.

- Steve Jobs

source: Steve Jobs (0101). “Motivating Thoughts of Steve Jobs”, p.53, Prabhat Prakashan

topic: Jobs, Keys, People, Different Jobs

Picasso had a saying - 'good artists copy, great artists steal' - and we have always been shameless about stealing great ideas.

- Walter Isaacson

source: Walter Isaacson (2011). “Walter Isaacson Great Innovators e-book boxed set: Steve Jobs, Benjamin Franklin, Einstein”, p.147, Simon and Schuster

topic: Inspirational, Artist, Ideas, Different Jobs, Great Artist

Let's go invent tomorrow instead of worrying about what happened yesterday.

- Steve Jobs

topic: Inspiration, Yesterday, Worry, Different Jobs

Part of what made the Macintosh great was that the people working on it were musicians and poets and artists and zoologists and historians who also happened to be the best computer scientists in the world.

- Steve Jobs

topic: Philosophical, Artist, People, Different Jobs, Macintosh

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

- Steve Jobs

topic: Inspiration, Important, Deciding What You Want, Different Jobs, Deciding What To Do

I would trade all of my technology for an afternoon with Socrates.

- Steve Jobs

topic: Inspirational, Education, Technology, Late Afternoon, Different Jobs

Believe that things will work out... follow your intuition and curiosity... trust your heart even when it leads you off the well-worn path... You have to trust that the dots will somehow connect in your future... The only way to do great work is to love what you do. If you haven't found it yet, keep looking. Don't settle. As with all matters of the heart, you'll know when you find it... Have the courage to follow your heart and intuition. They somehow already know what you truly want to become. Everything else is secondary.

- Steve Jobs

topic: Inspirational, Believe, Heart, Way In Life, Innovation And Business

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.

- Steve Jobs

topic: Inspirational, Business, Educational, Job Satisfaction, Inspirational Customer Service

Insanity: doing the same thing over and over again and expecting different results.

- Albert Einstein

source: Albert Einstein (2010). “The Ultimate Quotable Einstein”, p.474, Princeton University Press

topic: Inspirational, Life, Motivational, Anon, Insanity And Genius

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. The heaviness of being successful was replaced by the lightness of being a beginner again, less sure about everything. It freed me to enter one of the most creative periods of my life.

- Steve Jobs

topic: Inspirational, Success, Creativity, Stanford University, Lightness

For you to sleep well at night, the aesthetic, the quality, has to be carried all the way through.

- Steve Jobs

topic: Sleep, Night, Innovation, Different Jobs, Sleep Well

Don't settle, as with all matters of the heart you'll know when you find it

- Steve Jobs

source: Commencement Address at Stanford University, delivered 12 June 2005, Palo Alto, CA

topic: Change, Work, Life Changing, Way In Life, Innovation And Business

Focus and simplicity...once you get there, you can move mountains.

- Steve Jobs

topic: Life Lesson, Moving, Simple, Complex Systems, Success Mantra

If you haven't found it yet, keep looking. Don't settle. As with all matters of the heart, you'll know when you find it. And, like any great relationship, it just gets better and better as the years roll on.

- Steve Jobs

topic: Inspirational, Life, Graduation, Way In Life, Innovation And Business

It's more fun to be a pirate than to join the Navy.

- Steve Jobs

source: "Odyssey: Pepsi to Apple - A Journey of Adventure, Ideas, and the Future" by John Sculley and John A. Byrne, (p. 157), 1987.

topic: Memorable, Best Job, Pirate, Better Jobs, Loving What You Do

If you want to live your life in a creative way, as an artist, you have to not look back too much. You have to be willing to take whatever you've done and whoever you were and throw them away.

- Steve Jobs

topic: Memorable, Artist, Creative, Different Jobs

My model for business is The Beatles. They were four guys who kept each other kind of negative tendencies in check. They balanced each other and the total was greater than the sum of the parts. That's how I see business: great things in business are never done by one person, they're done by a team of people.

- Steve Jobs

source: "60 Minutes", www.cbsnews.com. 2003.

topic: Teamwork, People, Guy, Innovation And Business, Innovation And Leadership

We have always been shameless about stealing great ideas.

- Steve Jobs

topic: Ideas, Shameless, Stealing, Different Jobs, Great Artist

When you ask creative people how they did something, they feel a little guilty because they didn't really do it, they just saw something.

- Steve Jobs

topic: Creativity, People, Creative, Unique Experiences, Creative People

Kids deserve the right to think that they can change the world.

- Lois Lowry

topic: Kids, Thinking, Favorite Words, Different Jobs, Peg

Here’s to the crazy ones. The misfits. The rebels. The troublemakers. The round pegs in the square holes. The ones who see things differently.

- Walter Isaacson

source: Walter Isaacson (2011). “Walter Isaacson Great Innovators e-book boxed set: Steve Jobs, Benjamin Franklin, Einstein”, p.415, Simon and Schuster

topic: Change, Success, Meaningful, Beauty Of Life, Life Changing Inspirational

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

- Steve Jobs

source: Commencement Address at Stanford University, delivered 12 June 2005, Palo Alto, CA

topic: Love, Inspirational, Life, Inner Voice, Job Growth

Here's to the crazy ones, the misfits, the rebels, the troublemakers, the round pegs in the square holes... the ones who see things differently - they're not fond of rules... You can quote them, disagree with them, glorify or vilify them, but the only thing you can't do is ignore them because they change things... they push the human race forward, and while some may see them as the crazy ones, we see genius, because the ones who are crazy enough to think that they can change the world, are the ones who do.

- Steve Jobs

topic: Inspirational, Motivational, Crazy, Inspirational Change, Beauty Of Life

Quality is more important than quantity. One home run is much better than two doubles.

- Steve Jobs

topic: Inspirational, Running, Home, Better Jobs, Shocking

the people who are crazy enough to think they can change the world are the ones who do.

- Steve Jobs

topic: Inspirational, Life, Change, Making A Difference In The World, Innovation Inspiration

In 1989, I started the National Association of Business Women. We incorporated microfinance and different job training for women. We did a survey, with USAID, that found women lacked training, credit and information.

- Joyce Banda

topic: Jobs, Training, Different, Microfinance, Different Jobs