Steve Jobs Quotes

Obviously everyone wants to be successful, but I want to be looked back on as being very innovative, very trusted and ethical and ultimately making a big difference in the world.

When your work speaks, you don't need to speak at all.

Results matter! They matter to your credibility.

Success is not a function of the size of your title but the richness of your contribution.

Only great people can make great products.

The first Apple was just a culmination of my whole life.

Results transform the world, and a great dream creates results. That's what this thing we call 'business' is really all about.

Every day, you're only as good as your last show.

I have always admired the innovation and impact Apple products and services have on people's lives and hope in some small way I can help contribute to the company's continued success and leadership in changing the world.

You're only as good as your last performance.

One word that seems to connect both leaders and employees is: 'outcomes.' Built into that word is the implicit and explicit understanding and agreement that effective actions lead to good outcomes; ineffective actions lead to poor outcomes.

In this industry, you are as good as your last hit.

Always let your work talk for yourself. No matter how much you give interviews or how much you are written about, it is always the performance which counts.

He's a big player, and the big players score the big goals and make the big contributions in the big games. That's what determines a great player. That's what Steven Gerrard is.

Labels are irrelevant. It's the results.

In all these years, I've understood one thing: that it's only your work that should do all the talking.

I don't think Apple would be making the computers, the iPhone, being the top electronics company it is, if Steve Jobs didn't have some regrets over mistakes he made and learned to overcome them.

The main thing for me - as a leader, anyway, is that you perform well. That's most of the battle.

I let my work speak for me.

You're only as good as your last kick.

You can get a lot done when you don't care about credit. My name was not on Medicaid expansion, but it never would have happened without the work that I did. The best leaders are the ones that want results, not credit.

I think what is important is that my work speaks for itself.

We truly could have used the later Jobs in earlier years at Apple, is what I feel.

Forget about style; worry about results.

I would say a good leader brings results. A great leader writes a new story, it's different. Obviously a new story has to incorporate a lot of results. But a story is a chapter in the life of a company that people want to write and want to remember.