{"id":47407,"date":"2023-10-20T15:53:34","date_gmt":"2023-10-20T15:53:34","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/startupsmart.test\/2023\/10\/20\/steve-jobs-in-his-own-words-20-of-his-best-quotes-startupsmart\/"},"modified":"2023-10-20T15:53:34","modified_gmt":"2023-10-20T15:53:34","slug":"steve-jobs-in-his-own-words-20-of-his-best-quotes-startupsmart","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.startupsmart.com.au\/uncategorized\/steve-jobs-in-his-own-words-20-of-his-best-quotes-startupsmart\/","title":{"rendered":"Steve Jobs in his own words: 20 of his best quotes – StartupSmart"},"content":{"rendered":"
\"Steve<\/div>\n

It really shouldn\u2019t have been such a shock. Steve Jobs was diagnosed with pancreatic cancer, a notoriously harsh version of the disease, in 2004, and whispers of his impending demise have circulated ever since.<\/p>\n

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But such is Jobs\u2019 impact been on the worlds of business, technology and innovation, his loss, at the age of 56<\/a>, is a blow to the legions of entrepreneurs who have, directly or indirectly, been aided by his vision.<\/p>\n

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As we pointed out when Jobs stepped down as Apple CEO<\/a> in August, start-ups can glean a great deal from his focus on customers, talented staff and learning from failure.<\/p>\n

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Jan Dawson, chief telecoms analyst at Ovum, says: \u201cSteve Jobs was an iconic figure, and one whose impact on the technology industry and the world at large are hard to measure.\u201d<\/p>\n

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\u201cIn just the last four years, he has reinvented the smartphone and the tablet computer, and previously he had also changed the music industry dramatically with the introduction of the iPod and iTunes.\u201d<\/p>\n

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\u201cHis death will be felt deeply at Apple, the company he founded and recently led for 14 years, but also throughout the industry.\u201d<\/p>\n

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Plenty of other pundits will have their say in the coming days. But what about the man himself? We\u2019ve pulled together 20 of his most insightful quotes on life, death and everything in-between.<\/p>\n

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On technology<\/h2>\n


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\u201cIt takes these very simple-minded instructions \u2013 \u2018Go fetch a number, add it to this number, put the result there, perceive if it\u2019s greater than this other number\u2019 \u2013 but executes them at a rate of, let\u2019s say, 1,000,000 per second. At 1,000,000 per second, the results appear to be magic.\u201d<\/p>\n

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Playboy, 1985.<\/em><\/p>\n


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\u201cI think it\u2019s brought the world a lot closer together, and will continue to do that. There are downsides to everything; there are unintended consequences to everything.\u201d<\/p>\n

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\u201cThe most corrosive piece of technology that I\u2019ve ever seen is called television \u2014 but then, again, television, at its best, is magnificent.\u201d<\/p>\n

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Rolling Stone, 2003.<\/em><\/p>\n


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\u201cEvery once in a while a revolutionary product comes along that changes everything\u2026 One is very fortunate if you get to work on just one of these in your career. Apple\u2019s been very fortunate it\u2019s been able to introduce a few of these into the world.\u201d<\/p>\n

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Announcement of the iPhone, 2007.<\/em><\/p>\n

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\u201cWe think when people look back some number of years from now, they\u2019ll see this as a major event in personal computation devices. What\u2019s been really great for me is how quickly people have got it.\u201d<\/p>\n

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\u201cYou know, I\u2019ve gotten a few thousand emails from people I\u2019ve never talked to before just telling me how much they think this product is going to change their lives and what they do. People are getting it very quickly.\u201d<\/p>\n

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Apple event for iPhone 4.0 software, 2010.<\/em><\/p>\n


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On innovation<\/h2>\n


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\u201cDesign is a funny word. Some people think design means how it looks. But of course, if you dig deeper, it\u2019s really how it works.\u201d<\/p>\n

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\u201cThe design of the Mac wasn\u2019t what it looked like, although that was part of it. Primarily, it was how it worked. To design something really well, you have to get it.\u201d<\/p>\n

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\u201cIt takes a passionate commitment to really thoroughly understand something, chew it up, not just quickly swallow it. Most people don\u2019t take the time to do that.\u201d<\/p>\n

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\u201cCreativity is just connecting things. When you ask creative people how they did something, they feel a little guilty because they didn\u2019t really do it, they just saw something. It seemed obvious to them after a while.\u201d<\/p>\n

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\u201cThat\u2019s because they were able to connect experiences they\u2019ve had and synthesize new things. And the reason they were able to do that was that they\u2019ve had more experiences or they have thought more about their experiences than other people.<\/p>\n

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\u201cUnfortunately, that\u2019s too rare a commodity. A lot of people in our industry haven\u2019t had very diverse experiences.\u201d<\/p>\n

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\u201cSo they don\u2019t have enough dots to connect, and they end up with very linear solutions without a broad perspective on the problem. The broader one\u2019s understanding of the human experience, the better design we will have.\u201d<\/p>\n

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Wired, 1996.<\/em><\/p>\n


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\u201cWe made the buttons on the screen look so good you\u2019ll want to lick them.\u201d<\/p>\n

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Fortune, 2000.<\/em><\/p>\n

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On money<\/h2>\n


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\u201cBeing the richest man in the cemetery doesn\u2019t matter to me\u2026 Going to bed at night saying we\u2019ve done something wonderful\u2026 that\u2019s what matters to me.\u201d<\/p>\n

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The Wall Street Journal, 1993.<\/em><\/p>\n


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\u201cInnovation has nothing to do with how many R&D dollars you have. When Apple came up with the Mac, IBM was spending at least 100 times more on R&D.\u201d<\/p>\n

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\u201cIt\u2019s not about money. It\u2019s about the people you have, how you\u2019re led, and how much you get it.\u201d<\/p>\n

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Fortune, 1998.<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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