The majority of the most inspiring quotes of Steve Jobs taken from his speech to students at Stanford, in 2005, when he said to the graduates of the famous phrase: "You have very little time to live a stranger life. "
However, the famous pioneer was a lot of other remarkable statements, which periodically appear in popular magazines. Ten of the best sayings, taken from the book by George Bima "Steve Jobs. First-person »(« I, Steve: Steve Jobs in His Own Words »), express the principles of the cult of personality, his attitude towards work, life and death.
1. Computer - this is the most wonderful instrument invented by man. It's like a bicycle for the mind. (Film "Memory and Imagination", 1990).
2. In the end, I do not buy a lot of things, because I find them ridiculous. (The Independent, 2005)
3. I think that the death - this is the best invention of life. It cleanses the system from obsolete models. (Playboy, 1985)
4.Lyudi think that it is necessary to agree with everything, something to work on, but in fact it is not. Must be able to choose carefully and to abandon hundreds of great ideas. Many things that we have not done, I am proud of not less than those that have been created. Often innovation is the ability to say "no" a thousand things. (World Conference Apple, 1997)
5. I want to be the richest man in the cemetery. I want to go to bed, telling myself that today we have a really cool thing. (CNNMoney / Fortune, 1993)
6. My job - not to facilitate people's lives. My job - to make them better. (CNNMoney / Fortune, 2008)
7. If you want to live your life creatively, as a true artist, you do not often look back. Prepare to take everything you have ever done and all of who you are, and just throw it. (Playboy, 1985)
8. Innovation distinguishes a leader from followers. ( "Innovation Secrets of Steve Jobs", 2001)
9. My business model - it's The Beatles. Each member of the group of four complementary to the other, and as a whole they were more than just a sum of its parts. That's how I see business: great things are never done alone, they always create a team. ( «60 Minutes», 2003)
10. I'd trade all my technology for the evening in the company of Socrates. (Newsweek, 2001)
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