Steve Jobs was a relentless entrepreneur.

Both an innovator and a visionary, he was also a fable during his life, which is a rarity. And with a cyberspace worth estimated to be more than $10 billion when he died in 2011, he was no stranger to making a concern successful.

He was likewise quite opinionated. Never one to pull punches, his candid thoughts on business organisation, art, entrepreneurship, and how to make the nearly of life are straightforward but often surprisingly wise.

Here are a few Steve Jobs quotes sure to inspire, motivate, and entertain:

  1. "Your piece of work is going to make full a big role of your life, and the simply way to be truly satisfied is to do what y'all believe is slap-up work. And the only style to practise keen work is to love what you do. If you haven't establish information technology yet, keep looking. Don't settle. As with all matters of the centre, y'all'll know when you find it."
  2. "You can't connect the dots looking forward; you lot tin can only connect them looking astern. And so you have to trust that the dots will somehow connect in your hereafter."
  3. "Innovation distinguishes between a leader and a follower."
  4. "When you're a carpenter making a beautiful chest of drawers, you're not going to use a slice of plywood on the back, even though it faces the wall and nobody volition see information technology. You lot'll know it's there, so you're going to use a beautiful piece of wood on the dorsum. For you to sleep well at night, the artful, the quality, has to be carried all the fashion through."
  5. "My model for business organisation is the Beatles: They were four guys that kept each other'south negative tendencies in check; they counterbalanced each other. And the total was greater than the sum of the parts."
  6. "Remembering that you lot are going to dice is the all-time fashion I know to avoid the trap of thinking you lot take something to lose. You are already naked. There is no reason not to follow your heart."
  7. "When y'all first first off trying to solve a problem, the first solutions you come up upwards with are very complex, and well-nigh people stop there. But if you go along going, and live with the problem and peel more layers of the onion off, you can often arrive at some very elegant and simple solutions. Virtually people just don't put in the fourth dimension or energy to get there. We believe that customers are smart, and want objects which are well thought through."
  8. "I think if y'all do something and information technology turns out pretty practiced, and so you should become do something else wonderful, not dwell on it for besides long. Just figure out what'south next."
  9. "Take the courage to follow your heart and intuition. They somehow already know what you truly want to become."
  10. "I'm convinced that about half of what separates the successful entrepreneurs from the not-successful ones is pure perseverance. Information technology is so hard. You lot put so much of your life into this matter. There are such rough moments in fourth dimension that I think most people surrender. I don't arraign them. Information technology's really tough and information technology consumes your life. If yous've got a family and you're in the early days of a visitor, I can't imagine how one could practice it. I'chiliad sure it's been washed, but it's rough. It'south pretty much an 18-hr day chore, vii days a calendar week for a while. Unless you have a lot of passion about this, you're not going to survive."
  11. "Sometimes life is going to hit you in the caput with a brick. Don't lose faith."
  12. "Getting fired from Apple tree was the best thing that could have ever happened to me. The heaviness of being successful was replaced by the lightness of being a beginner over again. It freed me to enter one of the nearly creative periods of my life."
  13. "Sometimes when you innovate, you make mistakes. It is best to admit them apace, and become on with improving your other innovations."
  14. "When you lot grow up you tend to go told the world is the way it is and ... to alive your life inside the world. Try not to bash into the walls too much. Try to take a nice family, accept fun, relieve a fiddling money. That'due south a very express life. Life tin exist much broader once you discover one elementary fact: Everything effectually you that you phone call life was made upwardly by people that were no smarter than you and you tin can alter it, you tin can influence it, y'all tin can build your own things that other people tin use. Once you larn that, you'll never be the aforementioned again." (my emphasis)
  15. "Don't permit the dissonance of others' opinions drown out your ain inner phonation."
  16. [to a chore applicant] "Nosotros are inventing the future. Think almost surfing on the front end edge of a wave. Information technology's really exhilarating. At present think about dog-paddling at the tail end of that moving ridge. It wouldn't be anywhere near as much fun. Come up down here and make a paring in the universe."
  17. "It's really hard to design products by focus groups. A lot of times, people don't know what they desire until you evidence information technology to them."
  18. "We don't get a chance to do that many things, and every one should be actually fantabulous. Considering this is our life. Life is cursory, and and then yous die, yous know? And we've all chosen to do this with our lives. Then it amend be damn expert. It ameliorate exist worth information technology."
  19. "That's been ane of my mantras -- focus and simplicity. Simple tin can be harder than complex; you take to work difficult to go your thinking clean to arrive simple."
  20. "If yous want to live your life in a creative mode, as an artist, you have to not await back besides much. Yous have to exist willing to take whatever you lot've washed and whoever y'all were and throw them abroad."
  21. "Creativity is simply connecting things. When you ask artistic people how they did something, they feel a little guilty because they didn't actually do information technology, they just saw something. It seemed obvious to them after a while."
  22. "Design is not just what information technology looks like and feels like. Design is how it works."
  23. "Hither'due south to the crazy ones, the misfits, the rebels, the troublemakers, the round pegs in the square holes ... The ones who meet things differently -- they're non fond of rules ... You tin quote them, disagree with them, glorify or vilify them, but the simply thing yous tin't do is ignore them because they change things ... They push button the human being race forrad, and while some may see them as the crazy ones, we meet genius, because the ones who are crazy enough to call back that they tin can change the world are the ones who practise."
  24. "It'south better to be a pirate than to join the navy."
  25. "My favorite things in life don't cost any coin. It's really articulate that the well-nigh precious resource we all have is fourth dimension."
  26. "I've always been attracted to the more than revolutionary changes. I don't know why. Considering they're harder. They're much more stressful emotionally. And yous ordinarily become through a catamenia where everybody tells you lot that you've completely failed."
  27. "I'm equally proud of many of the things we haven't done as the things nosotros take done. Innovation is maxim no to a 1000 things."
  28. "Being the richest man in the cemetery doesn't matter to me. Going to bed at night proverb we've done something wonderful ... that'southward what matters to me."
  29. "For the past 33 years, I have looked in the mirror every morning and asked myself: 'If today were the final day of my life, would I want to do what I am about to do today?' And whenever the answer has been no for too many days in a row, I know I need to change something."
  30. "Things don't take to change the earth to be important."
  31. "Technology is nothing. What's important is that y'all accept a faith in people, that they're basically practiced and smart, and if you give them tools, they'll do wonderful things with them."
  32. "I think role of what made the Macintosh great was that the people working on it were musicians and poets and artists and zoologists and historians who also happened to be the best calculator scientists in the world."
  33. "Stay hungry. Stay foolish."