Steve Jobs

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 own inner voice. And most important, have the courage to follow your heart and intuition.

When you’re young, you look at television and think, There’s a conspiracy. The networks have conspired to dumb us down. But when you get a little older, you realize that’s not true. The networks are in business to give people exactly what they want. That’s a far more depressing thought. Conspiracy is optimistic! You can shoot the bastards!

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.

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.

The people who are crazy enough to think they can change the world, are the ones who do.

If you haven’t found it yet keep looking.

Every human has four endowments- self awareness, conscience, independent will and creative imagination. These give us the ultimate human freedom… The power to choose, to respond, to change.

If you are going to dream, dream big.

When a true genius appears in this world, you may know him by this sign, that the dunces are all in confederacy against him.

The greater danger for most of us is not that our aim is too high and we miss it, but that it is too low and we hit it.

Each businessperson must find a style, that voice that grows clearer and louder with each success and failure. Observing your own and your competitors’ successes and failures makes your inner business voice more sure and vivid.

You can make positive deposits in your own economy every day by reading and listening to powerful, positive, life-changing content and by associating with encouraging and hope-building people.

A fine quotation is a diamond on the finger of a man of wit, and a pebble in the hand of a fool.

One thing a lot of people don’t know about me is that I’m a driver… I love driving.. I’m driven.

To focus on technique is like cramming your way through school. You sometimes get by, perhaps even get good grades, but if you don’t pay the price day in and day out, you’ll never achieve true mastery of the subjects you study or develop an educated mind.

There is no security on this earth; there is only opportunity.

Some people do really find fault like there’s a reward for it.

It’s better to hang out with people better than you. Pick out associates whose behavior is better than yours and you’ll drift in that direction.

People rarely succeed unless they have fun in what they are doing.

Failure is a bruise, not a tattoo.

What separates the winners from the losers is how a person reacts to each new twist of fate.