#philosophy
Steve Jobs’s Philosophy of Life.
“Being the richest person in the cemetery doesn’t matter… Going to bed at night saying you’ve done something wonderful—that’s what matters.”
“Be a yardstick of quality. Some people aren’t used to an environment where excellence is expected.”
“You’ve got to find what you love. And that’s as true for work as it is for relationships.”
“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.”
“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.”
“Everything should be made as simple as possible, but not simpler.”
“Design is not just what it looks like and feels like. Design is how it works.”
“If you live each day as if it was your last, someday you’ll most certainly be right.”
“A maxim I live by? ‘You can’t connect the dots looking forward; you can only connect them looking backward.’”
“My favorite things in life don’t cost any money. It’s clear that the most precious resource we all have is time.”
“My job is not to make life easier for people. My job is to make them better.”
“We’re here to put a dent in the universe. Otherwise, why else even be here?”
“It doesn’t make sense to hire smart people and then tell them what to do. We hire smart people so they can tell us what to do.”
“There’s no such thing as a successful person who never made a mistake. There are only successful people who made mistakes but then changed their plans based on those very mistakes. I’m one of those guys.”
“Stay hungry. Stay foolish.”
“Don’t work 12 hours a day, work with your head.”
“Focus and simplicity—this is my mantra. Simplicity is harder to achieve than complexity: You have to work hard to get your thinking clean and make something simple.”
“Technology is nothing. What’s important and what’s really right is believing in people. Give them tools, and they’ll do wonderful things with them.”
“I would trade all of my technology for an afternoon with Socrates.”
“I want to leave my mark in this life, one that will echo far across the universe!”
– Steve Jobs
