Steve Jobs Quotes

I feel every day that everything I create - everything I do - I want it to be a risk. I think when you take the big swings - and I've done plenty of big swings that I was told were never going to work - those are always the things that break through.

In life, a lot of great ideas sound insane or absurd at first.

Oculus is a company that often does things differently. But we don't want to do things so differently that we start to get into trouble.

I think when you take the big swings - and I've done plenty of big swings that I was told were never going to work - those are always the things that break through.

More or less, I am always saying, 'Let's do what has not been done.'

I think you make impacts by taking risks.

If you're not failing every now and again, it's a sign you're not doing anything very innovative.

Most entrepreneurial ideas will sound crazy, stupid and uneconomic, and then they'll turn out to be right.

One of the great things about young entrepreneurs is that they don't know that something can't be done. So they try something that's so audacious and usually end up pulling it off.

You don't achieve anything by playing it safe.

Failing passionately is a success in its own right.

When you're an underdog, you're forced to try things you would never otherwise have attempted.

The best entrepreneurs know when to ignore sage advice.

When I've tried to reinvent the wheel, I get bashed for not doing the familiar things.

Do what you haven't done is the key, I think.

There's always a risk if you don't do things the way you've done things before.

I am really not interested or excited by repeating former successes.

My job is to have new ideas and take risks every day, so I'm always looking forward to the next thing being done or making the next thing that I haven't yet gotten to. That's sort of the constant in my life.

It's only when you risk failure that you discover things. When you play it safe, you're not expressing the utmost of your human experience.

What I try to do as an actor is constantly find that, find ways to risk, find opportunities to fall on my face if it's going to be worth it, and then maybe I'll surprise myself.

What is there to be afraid of? The worst thing that can happen is you fail. So what? I failed at a lot of things. My first record was horrible.

Changing the game is a mindset.

All progress has resulted from people who took unpopular positions.

In Silicon Valley, if you spend a lot of time thinking about the obstacles, you'll talk yourself out of everything, because the more you look at it, the less logical something sounds, since no one has done it yet.

I'm always drawn to writing things that feel like uncharted territory.