People think focus means saying yes to the thing you've got to focus on. But that's not what it means at all. It means saying no to the hundred other good ideas that there are.
SJ
Steve JobsApple Worldwide Developers Conference (1997)
About Steve Jobs
Cofounder of Apple and Pixar who reshaped personal computing, phones and animation. (1955-2011)
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 habits and discipline
- Plans are only good intentions unless they immediately degenerate into hard work.Peter Drucker
- Time is the scarcest resource, and unless it is managed nothing else can be managed.Peter Drucker
- There is surely nothing quite so useless as doing with great efficiency what should not be done at all.Peter Drucker
- Before everything else, getting ready is the secret of success.Henry Ford
- Nothing is particularly hard if you subdivide it into small jobs.Henry Ford
- A person should set his goals as early as he can and devote all his energy and talent to getting there.Walt Disney
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