Quotes From Steve Jobs

Like almost everyone else, I am mourning the loss of Steve Jobs. What a remarkable man. And I do have to say, as young man, he was adorable! I listened to a lot of talk shows last night that recapped his life and career. Two of the more interesting points were that he was a real tech genius who wanted to create more than he wanted to make money, and that he dropped out of college, because he knew (like Bill Gates) that he had to be involved in this product, this movement NOW, not a minute or year later. Can you imagine having that kind of feeling or knowledge that NOW is the time to do something. If you don't grab on to it NOW, you are going to lost that moment? What a visionary.

There was a great CNN article today that captured some of Jobs' best quotes. Here are some of them:

"Stay Hungry, Stay Foolish"

"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. And like any great relationship, it just gets better and better as the years roll on."

"We don't get a chance to do that many things, and every one should be really excellent. Because this is our life"

"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 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."

"Design is not just what it looks like. Design is how it works."

"I want to put a ding in the universe."

"Being the richest man in the cemetery doesn't matter to me. Going to bed at night saying we have done something wonderful, that is what matters to me."

"My model for business is the Beatles. They were four guys who kept each other's negative tendencies in check; they balanced each other. And the total was greater than the sum of the parts."

"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 so it can be simple. But it's worth it in the end. Once you get there, you can move mountains."

"I'm convinced that about half of what separates the successful entrepreneurs from the unsuccessful ones is pure perseverance."

RIP Steve Jobs. We will miss you.