About Steve Jobs

Cofounder of Apple and Pixar who reshaped personal computing, phones and animation. (1955-2011)

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More from Steve Jobs

• Your time is limited, so don't waste it living someone else's life.Stanford University commencement address (2005)
• 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.Stanford University commencement address (2005)
• 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.Stanford University commencement address (2005)
• Sometimes life hits you in the head with a brick. Don't lose faith.Stanford University commencement address (2005)
• Have the courage to follow your heart and intuition. They somehow already know what you truly want to become.Stanford University commencement address (2005)
• Design is not just what it looks like and feels like. Design is how it works.Interview, The New York Times Magazine (2003)

More quotes on purpose

• The test of our progress is not whether we add more to the abundance of those who have much; it is whether we provide enough for those who have too little.Franklin D. Roosevelt
• It isn't enough to talk about peace. One must believe in it. And it isn't enough to believe in it. One must work at it.Eleanor Roosevelt
• Life was meant to be lived, and curiosity must be kept alive. One must never, for whatever reason, turn his back on life.Eleanor Roosevelt
• The purpose of life... is to live it, to taste experience to the utmost, to reach out eagerly and without fear for newer and richer experience.Eleanor Roosevelt
• I have never felt that anything really mattered but the satisfaction of knowing that you stood for the things in which you believed and had done the very best you could.Eleanor Roosevelt
• Ask not what your country can do for you, ask what you can do for your country.John F. Kennedy

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