Steve Jobs

Innovation distinguishes between a leader and a follower.

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.

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.

The only way to do great work is to love what you do.

Your time is limited, so don’t waste it living someone else’s life.

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.

It’s important that you learn to be an entrepreneur or an investor…. Not a saver!

I wasn’t satisfied just to earn a good living. I was looking to make a statement.

U.S. President Theodore Roosevelt has been described as founder of the Bull Moose Party, the man who led his troops up San Juan Hill in the Spanish-American War, a big game hunter, family man, civic servant and a host of other things.

Life is about growing and evolving. I feel like my life has been in stages, and the stages I went through when I was younger allowed me to grow into the man I am today.

You can’t live principals you can’t understand.

There is no need to be afraid of having faults, because knowing we have them can help us to improve.

Just the fact that some geniuses were laughed at does not imply that all who are laughed at are geniuses. They laughed at Columbus, they laughed at Fulton, they laughed at the Wright brothers. But they also laughed at Bozo the Clown.

As you start your journey, the first thing you should do is throw away that store-bought map and begin to draw your own.

You are remembered for the rules you break.

Expect the best. Prepare for the worst. Capitalize on what comes.

When you are tough on yourself, life is going to be infinitely easier on you.

Do what you have to do until you can do what you want to do.

Make failure your teacher, not your undertaker.

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.

Have some fire. Be unstoppable. Be a force of nature. Be better than anyone here. And don’t give a damn what anyone thinks.