In today’s episode, I break down the short book I, Steve: Steve Jobs in His Own Words.
Explore my favorite ideas and quotes from Steve Jobs drawn from more than three decades of interviews, public statements, and media coverage:
Steve Jobs' Credos
It's not done until it ships.
— Steve Jobs from Folklore.org, January 1983
The journey is the reward.
— Steve Jobs from Folklore.org, January 1983
Real artists ship.
— Steve Jobs from Folklore.org, January 1984
It's more fun to be a pirate than to join the Navy.
— Steve Jobs in Odyssey: Pepsi to Applie, 1987
The organization is clean, simple to understand, and very accountable. Everything just got simpler. That's been one of my mantras: focus and simplicity.
— Steve Jobs for Businessweek.com, May 25, 1998
Steve Jobs’ Quotes
Apple has a core set of talents, and those talents are: We do, I think, very good hardware design. We do very good industrial design. We write very good system and application software. And we're really good at packaging that all together into a product. We're the only people left in the computer industry that do that.
— Steve Jobs in Rolling Stone, December 25, 2003
All we are is our ideas, our people. That's what keeps us going to work in the morning, to hang around these great bright people. I've always thoughts that recruiting is the heart and soul of what we do.
— Steven Jobs at D5 Conference: All Things Digital, May 30, 2007
It's not just recruiting. After recruiting, it's then building an environment that makes people feel they are surrounded by equally talented people and that their work is bigger than they are. The feeling that the work will have tremendous influence and is part of a strong, clear vision — all of those things.
— Steve Jobs for In the Company of Giants, 1997
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