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Steve Jobs

Biography

Type: Businessman , Co-founder, Chairman, and CEO of Apple Inc.

Born: February 24, 1955

Died: October 5, 2011

Steve Jobs was born on February 24, 1955, in the city of San Francisco. His biological mother was either an unwed graduate student named Joanne Simpson, and his biological father was a political science or mathematics professor, a native Syrian named Abdulfattah John Jandali. Steve Jobs was best known as the co-founder, chairman, and chief executive officer (CEO) of Apple Inc.; CEO and largest shareholder of Pixar Animation Studios; a member of The Walt Disney Company's board of directors following its acquisition of Pixar; and founder, chairman, and CEO of NeXT Inc. Jobs is widely recognized as a pioneer of the microcomputer revolution of the 1970s, along with Apple co-founder Steve Wozniak. Shortly after his death, Jobs's official biographer, Walter Isaacson, described him as the "creative entrepreneur whose passion for perfection and ferocious drive revolutionized six industries: personal computers, animated movies, music, phones, tablet computing, and digital publishing.

Steve Jobs Quotes

Simple can be harder than complex: You have to work hard to get your thinking clean
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.

Those who are crazy enough to think they can change the world usually do.. Steve Jobs
Those who are crazy enough to think they can change the world usually do.

My model for business is The Beatles. They were four guys who kept each other kind
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.

The thing that bound us together at Apple was the ability to make things that were
The thing that bound us together at Apple was the ability to make things that were going to change the world. That was very important.

You have to be burning with an idea, or a problem, or a wrong that you
You have to be burning with an idea, or a problem, or a wrong that you want to right. If you're not passionate enough from the start, you'll never stick it out.

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

Don’t let the noise of others’ opinions drown out your own inner voice. [Stanford University commencement
Don’t let the noise of others’ opinions drown out your own inner voice."

[Stanford University commencement speech, 2005]

If you live each day as it was your last, someday you'll most certainly be right.
If you live each day as it was your last, someday you'll most certainly be right

I have looked in the mirror every morning and asked myself: If today were the last
I have looked in the mirror every morning and asked myself: "If today were the last day of my life, would I want to do what I am about to do today?" And whenever the answer has been "No" for too many days in a row, I know I need to change something.

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

Stay hungry. Stay foolish.. Steve Jobs
Stay hungry. Stay foolish.

You can't connect the dots looking forward; you can only connect them looking backwards. So you
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.

And the only way to do great work is to love what you do.... Don't settle.
And the only way to do great work is to love what you do.... Don't settle

I think the world’s a better place because Bill realized that his goal isn’t to be
I think the world’s a better place because Bill realized that his goal isn’t to be the richest guy in the cemetery, right?

Remembering that you are going to die is the best way I know to avoid the
Remembering that you are going to die is the best way I know to avoid the trap of thinking you have something to lose.

One more thing.... Steve Jobs
One more thing...

There’s a temptation in our networked age to think that ideas can be developed by email
There’s a temptation in our networked age to think that ideas can be developed by email and iChat. That’s crazy. Creativity comes from spontaneous meetings, from random discussions. You run into someone, you ask what they’re doing, you say ‘wow,’ and soon you’re cooking up all sorts of ideas.

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

Do you want to spend the rest of your life selling sugared water or do you
Do you want to spend the rest of your life selling sugared water or do you want a chance to change the world?

We’re always talking about following your passion. But we’re all part of the flow of history…
We’re always talking about following your passion. But we’re all part of the flow of history… you’ve got to put something back into the flow of history that’s going to help your community…People will say, this person didn’t just have a passion, he cared about making something that other people could benefit from.

It places value on experience versus intellectual understanding. I saw a lot of people contemplating things
It places value on experience versus intellectual understanding. I saw a lot of people contemplating things but it didn't seem to lead to too many places. I got very interested in people who had discovered something more significant than an intellectual, abstract understanding.

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