QUOTE A DAY - Oct. 6, 2011
Greetings fellow quote lovers:In Memorium - A Tribute To Steve JobsSteve Jobs was an orphan. He never finished college because he wanted to change the world without waiting for a diploma.
Everything about the computer world has been affected by this man. But his influence spread way beyond the computer world and into our corporate culture as well as the way we act in every day life.
I am headed to a "peer summit" in a few minutes. I am going in sweats and a polo shirt. Steve Jobs made it acceptable.
This is a trivial anecdote that masks his influence on our society. Here are some collectible gems that Steve Jobs uttered from the span of his career.
RIP Steve Jobs (1955-2011)
Best,
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Email Me*---- Quotes For The Week ----*It's really hard to design products by focus groups. A lot of times, people don't know what they want until you show it to them.
--Steve Jobs, BusinessWeek, May 25, 1998
Do you want to spend the rest of your life selling sugared
water or do you want a chance to change the world?
--Steve Jobs, The line he used to lure John Sculley into
becoming Apple's CEO
That's been one of my mantras - focus and simplicity.
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.
--Steve Jobs, BusinessWeek, May 25, 1998
**--- MYSTERY QUOTE ---**No Mystery TodayYour 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. And 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. As with all matters of the heart, you'll know when you find it. And, like any great relationship, it just gets better and better as the years roll on. So keep looking until you find it.
Don't settle.
--Steve Jobs, Stanford commencement speech, June 2005
See at the bottom for the answer*---- More Quotes for the Week ----*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.
--Steve Jobs, The Wall Street Journal, May 25, 1993
No one wants to die. Even people who want to go to heaven don't want to die to get there. And yet death is the destination we all share. No one has ever escaped it. And that is as it should be, because Death is very likely the single best invention of Life. It is Life's change agent. It clears out the old to make way for the new. Right now the new is you, but someday not too long from now, you will gradually become the old and be cleared away. Sorry to be so dramatic, but it is quite true.
--Steve Jobs, Stanford commencement speech, June 2005
MYSTERY QUOTE AND ANSWER - DID YOU GUESS CORRECTLY?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. And 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. As with all matters of the heart, you'll know when you find it. And, like any great relationship, it just gets better and better as the years roll on. So keep looking until you find it.
Don't settle.
MYSTERY ANSWER: --Steve Jobs, Stanford-June 2005
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