Do your best at every job. Don’t sleep! Success generates more success so be hungry for it. Hire good people with a passion for excellence.
If you keep your eye on the profit, you’re going to skimp on the product. But if you focus on making really great products, then the profits will follow.
Have the courage to follow your heart and intuition.
Whatever you do, you must never let the voice in your head control the brain in your heart.
If you want to live your life in a creative way, as an artist, you have to not look back too much. You have to be willing to take whatever you’ve done and whoever you were and throw them away.
Quality is more important than quantity. One home run is much better than two doubles.
Stay Hungry. Stay Foolish. And I have always wished that for myself. And now, as you graduate to begin anew, I wish that for you.
Apple’s market share is bigger than BMW’s or Mercedes’s or Porsche’s in the automotive market. What’s wrong with being BMW or Mercedes?
If you don’t cannibalize yourself, someone else will.
When you ask creative people how they did something, they feel a little guilty because they didn’t really do it, they just saw something.
Shake off this erroneous notion that life is there and you’re just gonna live in it, versus embrace it, change it, improve it, make your mark upon it.
The greatest artists like Dylan, Picasso and Newton risked failure. And if we want to be great, we’ve got to risk it too.
I began to realize that an intuitive understanding and consciousness was more significant than abstract thinking and intellectual logical analysis. Intuition is a very powerful thing, more powerful than intellect, in my opinion. That’s had a big impact on my work.
Manage the top line: your strategy, your people, and your products, and the bottom line will follow.
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.
I think the biggest innovations of the 21st century will be at the intersection of biology and technology. A new era is beginning.
I want to put a ding in the universe.
No one wants to die. Even people who want to go to heaven don’t want to die to get there.
It takes a lot of hard work to make something simple.
Pixar is the most technically advanced creative company; Apple is the most creatively advanced technical company.