One of the pioneering Entrepreneur and great innovators of America Steve Jobs did not die rather lived by his creation “Apple”. His life is as inspiring as his own words. Those who are eager to learn from Steve’s experience and vision may follow his words herein:
- “When you start looking at a problem and it seems really simple with all these simple solutions, you do not really understand the complexity of the problem. And, your solutions are way too oversimplified, and they don’t work”.
- “I'll always stay connected with Apple. I hope that throughout my life I'll sort of have the thread of my life and the thread of Apple weave in and out of each other, like a tapestry. There may be a few years when I'm not there, but I'll always come back”. (Playboy, 1985).
- “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". (AppleAdvertisement, 1997) – “Think Different”.
- “And it comes from saying no to 1,000 things to make sure we don't get on the wrong track or try to do too much. We're always thinking about new markets we could enter, but it's only by saying no that you can concentrate on the things that are really important”. (Businessweek, 1998).
- "It's really hard to design products by focus groups. A lot of times, people don't know what they want until you show it to them". (Businessweek, 1998)
- “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 other's opinions drown out your own inner voice. And most important, have the courage to follow your heart and intuition. They somehow already know what you truly want to become. Everything else is secondary." (BusinessWeek, 1998).
- "In most people's vocabularies, design means veneer. It's interior decorating. It's the fabric of the curtains and the sofa. But to me, nothing could be further from the meaning of design. Design is the fundamental soul of a man-made creation that ends up expressing itself in successive outer layers of the product or service". (Fortune, 2000).
- “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. It's adhoc meetings of six people called by someone who thinks he has figured out the coolest new thing ever and who wants to know what other people think of his idea”. (BusinessWeek, 2004).
- “Remembering that I'll be dead soon is the most important tool I've ever encountered to help me make the big choices in life. Because almost everything -- all external expectations, all pride, all fear of embarrassment or failure -- these things just fall away in the face of death, leaving only what is truly important. Remembering that you are going to die is the best way I know to avoid the trap of thinking you have something to lose. You are already naked. There is no reason not to follow your heart”. (StanfordUniversity, 2005)
- “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. You have to trust in something - your gut, destiny, life, karma, whatever. This approach has never let me down, and it has made all the difference in my life”. (StanfordUniversity, 2005)
- “Death...the single best invention of Life. It's life's change agent. It clears out the old to make way for the new”. (StanfordUniversity, 2005)
- “Stay Hungry, Stay Foolish”. (StanfordUniversity, 2005)
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