40+ Quotes By Steve Jobs For New Entrepreneurs

Steve Jobs Quotes:  If you are setting your first step towards building something meaningful and successful, take an inspirational push from the late American businessman and former CEO of Apple, Steve Jobs. His quotes are perfect to take life lessons about business, relationships, work ethics and life in general. Steve Jobs’ quotes inspire new entrepreneurs to embrace perseverance, innovation, and passion. Therefore, let’s take a look at the list of 40+ quotes by Steve Jobs for new entrepreneurs.

List Of 40+ Quotes By Steve Jobs For New Entrepreneurs

1. "Innovation distinguishes between a leader and a follower."

2. "Stay hungry. Stay foolish."

3. "Your work is going to fill a large part of your life, and the only way to be truly satisfied is to do what you believe is great work."

4. "The only way to do great work is to love what you do."

5. "My job is not to be easy on people. My job is to take these great people we have and to push them and make them even better."

6. "It’s not about money. It’s about the people you have, how you’re led, and how much you get it."

7. "I’m convinced that about half of what separates the successful entrepreneurs from the non-successful ones is pure perseverance."

8. "Sometimes life hits you in the head with a brick. Don’t lose faith."

9. "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."

10. "Being the richest man in the cemetery doesn’t matter to me. Going to bed at night saying we’ve done something wonderful, that’s what matters to me."

11. "Creativity is just connecting things."

12. "Your time is limited, so don’t waste it living someone else’s life."

13. "Don’t let the noise of others’ opinions drown out your own inner voice."

14. "You can’t connect the dots looking forward; you can only connect them looking backwards."

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15. "Be a yardstick of quality. Some people aren’t used to an environment where excellence is expected."

16. "People think focus means saying yes to the thing you’ve got to focus on. It means saying no to the hundred other good ideas that there are."

17. "We’re here to put a dent in the universe. Otherwise, why else even be here?"

18. "One person never does great things in business. A team of people does them."

19. "Details matter; it’s worth waiting to get it right."

20. "Get closer than ever to your customers. So close that you tell them what they need well before they realise it themselves."

21. "The products suck! There’s no sex in them anymore!"

22. "For you to sleep well at night, the aesthetic, the quality, has to be carried all the way through."

23. "The doers are the major thinkers. The people who really create the things that change this industry are both the thinker and the doer in one person."

24. "I do not adopt softness towards others because I want to make them better."

25. "If you don’t love it, you’re going to fail."

26. "You can build your own things that other people can use. And once you learn that, you’ll never be the same again."

27. "The most precious thing that we all have with us is time."

28. "Don’t get hung up on who owns the idea. Pick the best one, and let’s go."

29. "We do no market research. We don’t hire consultants. We just want to make great products."

30. "The people who have really made the contributions have been the thinkers and the doers."

31. "I think all of us need to be on guard against arrogance, which knocks at the door whenever you’re successful."

32. "The Lisa people wanted to do something great. And the Mac people want to do something insanely great. The difference shows."

33. "Once you discover one simple fact, and that is everything around you that you call life, was made up by people who were no smarter than you."

34. "I always advise people – Don’t wait! Do something when you are young, when you have nothing to lose, and keep that in mind."

35. "You get your wind back, remember the finish line, and keep going."

36. "At Apple, people are putting in 18-hour days."

37. "If you’ve got a family and you’re in the early days of a company, I can’t imagine how one could do it. It’s pretty much an eighteen-hour day job, seven days a week, for a while."

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38. "Unless you have a lot of passion about this, you’re not going to survive."

39. "You’re going to give it up."

40. "My business model is The Beatles. Four guys kept each other’s kind of negative tendencies in check. They balanced each other, and the total was greater than the sum of the parts."

41. "Design is not just what it looks like and feels like. Design is how it works."

42. "What a computer is to me is the most remarkable tool that we have ever come up with. It’s the equivalent of a bicycle for our minds."

43. "Sometimes when you innovate, you make mistakes. It is best to admit them quickly and get on with improving your other innovations."

44. "People who are crazy enough to think they can change the world are the ones who do."

45. "The only way to do great work is to love what you do. If you haven’t found it yet, keep looking. Don’t settle."

Steve Jobs' words are not simply inspirational quotes; they are the guiding life lessons that have established the way technology meets human life. His quotes highlight the value of passion, simplicity, and determination in times of obstacles. Regardless of whether you are a would-be entrepreneur, a creative professional, or simply someone looking for motivation to face the challenges of life, Steve Jobs' words act as a bright ray of sunshine for everyone, especially new entrepreneurs.