Best of Steve Jobs
the best insights, interviews and quites from Steve Jobs in one place
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Best of Steve Jobs
Creativity is just connecting things. When you ask creative people how they did something, they feel a little guilty because they didn’t really do it, they just saw something. It seemed obvious to them after a while. That’s because they were able to connect experiences they’ve had and synthesize new things. And the reason they were able to do that... See more
Steve Jobs • Steve Jobs on Creativity
Jobs: So far, that’s more of a conceptual market than a real market. The primary reasons to buy a computer for your home now are that you want to do some business work at home or you want to run educational software for yourself or your children. If you can’t justify buying a computer for one of those two reasons, the only other possible reason is... See more
Steve Jobs • Playboy Interview: Steve Jobs
Did Steve jobs ever say, "Hey, I want to make a $100 million company?" That was never in discussion. He said, "I want to make insanely great products. Then I want to get really good at marketing because I want everybody in the world to have an Apple device, and the way to do that is to get really good at marketing."
Patrick O'Shaughnessy • Passion & Pain
If you want to reap the benefits of Simplicity, think big—but don’t act that way. As Steve Jobs proved, one of the most effective ways to become a big business is to maintain the culture of a small business
Ken Segall • Insanely Simple: The Obsession That Drives Apple's Success
The greatest thing Jobs designed was his business. Apple imagined and executed definite multi-year plans to create new products and distribute them effectively. Forget “minimum viable products”—ever since he started Apple in 1976, Jobs saw that you can change the world through careful planning, not by listening to focus group feedback or copying... See more
Peter Thiel, Blake Masters • Zero to One
Jobs: In the future, it won’t be an act of faith. The hard part of what we’re up against now is that people ask you about specifics and you can’t tell them. A hundred years ago, if somebody had asked Alexander Graham Bell, “What are you going to be able to do with a telephone?” he wouldn’t have been able to tell him the ways the telephone would... See more
Steve Jobs • Playboy Interview: Steve Jobs
Steve Jobs gave one of his best interviews about building products back in 1995.
Anyone who wants to craft amazing products should watch it.
Here are 9 quotes from Jobs that really resonated with me: