Jobs Quotes

I’m a big believer in boredom. Boredom allows one to indulge in curiosity and out of curiosity comes everything.

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.

“I am George Bodenheimer,” he said to Jobs. “I run ESPN.” Jobs just looked at him and said nothing other than “Your phone is the dumbest f**king idea I have ever heard,” then turned and walked away.

Sometimes life hits you in the head with a brick. Don’t lose faith. I’m convinced that the only thing that kept me going was that I loved what I did. You’ve got to find what you love ..... 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. .... So keep looking until you find it. Don’t settle.

Never let your ego get so close to your position that when your position goes, your ego goes with it.

Good artists copy, great artists steal

My job is not to be easy on people. My job is to make them better.

I'm as proud of what we don't do as I am of what we do.

If a man is called to be a street sweeper, he should sweep streets even as Michelangelo painted, or Beethoven composed music, or Shakespeare wrote poetry. He should sweep streets so well that all the hosts of heaven and earth will pause to say, Here lived a great street sweeper who did his job well.

You're not just tech innovators, you're job creators.

If a city has a 30% Negro population, then it is logical to assume that Negroes should have at least 30% of the jobs in any particular company, and jobs in all categories rather than only in menial areas.

We believe that people with passion can change the world for the better. And that those people that are crazy enough to think they can change the world, are the ones that actually do.

I've read all your CVs and on paper you all look good, but so does fish and chips.

I've read all your CVs and on paper you all look good, but so does fish and chips.

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

If you think your boss is stupid remember; you wouldn't have a job if he was smarter.

Today is the day that an abstract debate about spreadsheets and numbers turns into stark reality for people's jobs and services.

People who are wise, good, smart, skillful, or hardworking don't need politics, they have jobs.

I make 50 cents for showing up ... and the other 50 cents is based on my performance.

Only in our dreams are we free. The rest of the time we need wages.