Being the richest man in the
Cemetery doesn’t matter to me.
Going to bed at night saying we’ve
Done something wonderful…
That’s what matters to me.
Remembering that you are going to die is the best
Way I know to avoid the trap of thinking that you
Have something to lose. You are already naked.
There is no reason not to follow your heart.’
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.”
“Do you want to spend the rest of your life
Selling sugared water or do you want a
Chance to change the world?”
It’s more fun to be a pirate
Than to join the navy.”
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 inner voice.
And most important, have the courage to
Follow your heart and intuition. They somehow
Already know what you truly want to become.
Everything else is secondary.”
“You know my main reaction to this money
Thing is that it’s humorous, all the attention to it,
Because it’s hardly the most insightful or
Valuable thing that happened to me
In the past ten years.”
“Innovation distinguishes between
A leader and a follower.”
My favorite things in life
Don’t cost any money.
It’s really clear that the
Most precious resource
We all have is time.
I want to put a
Ding in the Universe.”
“Because the ones who are
Crazy enough to think that
They can change the world,
Are the ones who do.”
We don’t get a chance to do that many things,
And every one should be really excellent.
Because this is our life. Life is brief, and then
You die, you know? And we’ve all chosen to do
This with our lives. So it better be damn good.
It better be worth it.
“If today were the last day of my life,
Would I want to do what I’m 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.
“Quality is more important than quantity.
One home run is much better than two doubles.”
“The only way to 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.”
Design is the funny word.
Some people think design means
Howit looks , But of course, if you dig
deeper ,It’s really how it works.
You have to have a lot of
Passion for what you are
Doing because it is so hard…
If you don’t , any rational
Person would give up.
And no, we don’t
Know where it will lead.
We just know there’s
Something much bigger
Than any of us here.”
“No one wants to die.
Even people who want to
Go to heaven don’t want
To die to get there.
And yet death is the
Destination we all share.”
You cannot just ask customers what they want
And then try to give that to them.
By the time you get it built,
They will want something new.
And we’ve chosen to do this
With our lives. So it better be damn good.
It be better be worth it”.
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.
They somehow already know
What you truly want to become.
Everything else is secondary.”
”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? ‘No’ for too many days in a row,
I know I need to change something.”
I’m going to destroy android,
Because it’s a stolen product.
I’m willing to go
Thermonuclear war on this.”
Sometimes when you innovate,
You make mistakes.
It is the best to admit
Them quickly, and
Get on with improving
Your other innovations.
We used to dream about the stuff.
Now we get to built it. It is pretty great.
“I’m convinced that
About half of what
Separates the successful
Entrepreneurs from the
Non-successful ones is
Pure Preservence.”
Sometimes life hits you in
The head with a brick.
Don’t lose faith..
“Everyone here has the sense that
Right now is one of those moments
When we are influencing the future.”
“…But the really great person will keep on
Going and find the key, underlying
Principle of the problem.
And come up with a beautiful elegant
Solution that works.”
“I was worth over $1,000,000 when I was 23,
And over $10,000,000 when I was 24,
And over $100,000,000 when I was 25,
And it wasn’t that important because
I never did it for the money.”
“Be a yardstick of quality.
Some people aren’t used to
An Environment where
Excellence is expected”.
I am as proud of what we don’t do
As I am of what we do.
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 the 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.
That’s been one of my mantras – focus and simplicity.
Simple can be harder than complex: You have to
Work hard to get your thinking clean to make it simple.
But it’s worth it in the end because once you get there,
You can move mountains.
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.
“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.
Remembering that you are going to die
Is the best way I know to avoid the trap
Of thinking you have something to lose.
You are already naked. There is no reason
Not to follow your heart.”
The people who are crazy enough to
Think they can change the world,
Are the ones who do.
Here’s to the crazy ones, the misfits, the rebels,
the trouble makers, the round peg in the square holes…
the ones who see things differently—
they are not fond of rules… you can quote them
disagree with them,
glorify or verify them, but the only thing
you can’t do is ignore them because
they change things…
they push the human race forward, and while
some may see them as crazy ones,
we see genius, because the ones who are
crazy enough to think that they can
change the world, are the ones who do”.