Steve Jobs was the legendary man and visionary behind the massive computer and technology company that is Apple. Serving as the chairman and CEO for some time, Jobs took Apple from a failing and nearly bankrupt computer company to the powerhouse that it is today. Jobs’ vision of the company was incredible and he helped bring the iMac, iTunes, iPod, iPhone, and iPad to life. Just drop by any tech conference and you will see the majority of journalists with Macbooks and iPhones. In 2011, Apple became the most valuable publicly traded company in the entire world.
In addition with his involvement with Apple, Jobs also worked as the CEO and majority shareholder of Pixar in 2006, and is credited as an executive producer for Toy Story. Born in 1955, Jobs had an extremely successful business career and had an estimated net worth of over $8 billion dollars. In 2003 Jobs was diagnosed with pancreatic cancer.
After a long battle with cancer, Jobs eventually died from his cancer on October 5th, 2011. Jobs was a master innovator, businessman, and an exceptional marketer who was able to take his vision and ideas and make them into a worldwide reality. We are going to take a look at some of Jobs’ most influential and inspiring quotes to date; quotes that have inspired countless people to push forward and strive for the best.
5. “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.”
4. “Your time is limited, so don’t waste it living someone else’s life. Don’t be trapped by dogma – which is living with the results of other people’s thinking. Don’t let the noise of others’ opinions drown out your own inner voice. And most important, have the courage to follow your heart and intuition.”
3. “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. You have to trust in something – your gut, destiny, life, karma, whatever. This approach has never let me down, and it has made all the difference in my life.”
2. “For the past 33 years, 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.”
1. “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. Because almost everything – all external expectations, all pride, all fear of embarrassment or failure – these things just fall away in the face of death, leaving only what is truly important.”
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