Steve Jobs Quotes

If your goal is to change the world, you can't start by doing things the same old way because it sells better.

Almost all new ideas have a certain aspect of foolishness when they are first produced.

Part of the beauty of Silicon Valley is that people generally encourage you to think crazy. It's the hypothesis that there's nothing sacred that can't be changed.

As our case is new, we must think and act anew.

Changing the game is a mindset.

Big ideas we tend to like are the ones that seem impossible or crazy.

Entrepreneurs almost always have to step out of existing institutions that embody old ways of doing things to build their vision.

Since I was in my early twenties, at ABC, I was always only interested in things that were not already being done.

If the idea is really new and unique and big, other people will all think it is bad and is going to fail.

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 'crazy' is a compliment. I think you make money with people who are crazy.

Leadership requires that we challenge the conventional wisdom.

Being a game changer to me means changing the way other people see things.

I have some ideas for things nobody's done before, and some are ideas bigger than me that I might be able to pull off, maybe.

It's core to Amazon's culture that we want to innovate and think big, and it's great to be at a place like that.

The best entrepreneurs know when to ignore sage advice.

I've always challenged myself and the people who work with me to take new approaches to traditional business challenges, to push the envelope and constantly ask whether our sacred cows are still producing great milk.

If you want to think new thoughts that are different, then do what creative people do - get the problem reasonably clear and then refuse to look at any answers until you've thought the problem through carefully how you would do it, how you could slightly change the problem to be the correct one.

You know that clicker? It's going to change the world more than any other thing.

I love creative people.

I've always been controversial because I offer new ideas. For me to be controversial, I think this is positive.

There's always opposition when you do something big. I do many things that are controversial. When people see it, they love it!

No one can possibly achieve any real and lasting success or 'get rich' in business by being a conformist.

Creativity often consists of merely turning up what is already there. Did you know that right and left shoes were thought up only a little more than a century ago?

What really excites me in a project is when it goes in a way you haven't been before.