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American business magnate, industrial designer, investor, and media proprietor

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You know, Dr. Edwin Land was a troublemaker. He dropped out of Harvard and founded Polaroid.
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Much of what I stumbled into by following my curiosity and intuition turned out to be priceless later on.
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It’s hard for them to tell you what they want when they’ve never seen anything remotely like it. Take desktop video editing. I never got one request from someone who wanted to edit movies on his computer. Yet now that people see it, they say, ‘Oh my God, that’s great!’.
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Apple is built on refugees from other companies. These are the extremely bright individual contributors who were troublemakers at other companies.
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Innovation comes from people meeting up in the hallways or calling each other at 10:30 at night with a new idea, or because they realized something that shoots holes in how we’ve been thinking about a problem.
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Simple can be harder than complex: You have to work hard to get your thinking clean to make it simple. But it’s worth it in the end because once you get there, you can move mountains.
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Every once in a while a revolutionary product comes along that changes everything. It’s very fortunate if you can work on just one of these in your career. … Apple’s been very fortunate in that it’s introduced a few of these.
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I’m convinced that about half of what separates the successful entrepreneurs from the non-successful ones is pure perseverance.
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“Oh wow. Oh wow. Oh wow.”
– Steve Jobs (Jobs’ biological sister Mona Simpson reported these being Jobs last words before he died.)

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I think it’s brought the world a lot closer together, and will continue to do that. There are downsides to everything; there are unintended consequences to everything. The most corrosive piece of technology that I’ve ever seen is called television – but then, again, television, at its best, is magnificent.
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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.
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In the annals of innovation, new ideas are only part of the equation. Execution is just as important.
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Time on this earth is limited, don’t live someone else’s life, live by your vision.
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I’m an optimist in the sense that I believe humans are noble and honorable, and some of them are really smart. I have a very optimistic view of individuals.
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Innovation is not about saying yes to everything. It’s about saying NO to all but the most crucial features.
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Let’s go invent tomorrow instead of worrying about what happened yesterday.

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Creation is messy. You want genius, you get madness; two sides of the same coin.
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Follow your heart and your intuition. They somehow already know what you truly want to become. Everything else is secondary.
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If you keep your eye on the profit, you’re going to skimp on the product. But if you focus on making really great products, then the profits will follow.
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Your time is limited, so don’t waste it living someone else’s life.
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Sometimes when you innovate, you make mistakes. It is best to admit them quickly, and get on with improving your other innovations.
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Design is not just what it looks like and feels like. Design is how it works.
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Everything is important- that success is in the details.
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The only way to do great work is to love what you do. If you haven’t found it yet, keep looking. Don’t settle.
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The heaviness of being successful was replaced by the lightness of being a beginner again.
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Creativity is just connecting things.
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The people who are crazy enough to think they can change the world are the ones who do.
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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.
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Sometimes life’s going to hit you in the head with a brick. Don’t lose faith. I’m convinced that the only thing that kept me going was that I loved what I did.
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Details matter, it’s worth waiting to get it right.
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Great things in business are never done by one person. They’re done by a team of people.
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The only way to do great work is to love what you do.
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Stay hungry, stay foolish.
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Innovation distinguishes between a leader and a follower.
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Being the richest man in the cemetery doesn’t matter to me. Going to bed at night saying we’ve done something wonderful, that’s what matters to me.
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My job is not to be easy on people. My job is to make them better.
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I think death is the most wonderful invention of life. It purges the system of these old models that are obsolete.
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One way to remember who you are is to remember who your heroes are.
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The only way to do great work is to love what you do. If you haven’t found it yet, keep looking. Don’t settle.
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Why join the navy if you can be a pirate?
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Good Artists Copy, Great Artists Steal.
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Have the courage to follow your heart and intuition. They somehow already know what you truly want to become. Everything else is secondary.
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Don’t let the noise of others’ opinions drown out your own inner voice.
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It’s more fun to be a pirate than to join the navy.
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Your time is limited, so don’t waste it living someone else’s life. 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… Stay hungry. Stay foolish.
– Steve Jobs, Stanford University, 2005

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If you live each day as it was your last, someday you’ll most certainly be right.
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I would trade all of my technology for an afternoon with Socrates.
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