"This is a group of people that is quite talented. You've got a lot of CEOs, I mean Larry Ellison, Bill Campbell, Ed Willard - you've got a lot of high-powered people on this board - so there is some very strong people on this board and they have really gelled - which is nice."SJ
"Steve says that each company should do the absolute best thing that they can do, every time, and I think he has shown it once again today." - Eric Schmidt, Google CEO, MacWorld, 2007
"It’s pretty unbelievable, and I think when you'll have a chance to get your hand on it, you’ll agree, we have reinvented the phone." - Steve Jobs, MacWorld, 2007
"We’re going to use the best pointing device in the world. We’re going to use a pointing device that we’re all born with — we're born with ten of them. We’re going to use our fingers. We’re going to touch this with our fingers." - Steve Jobs, MacWorld, 2007
"And what happens if you think of a great idea six months from now? You can’t run around and add a button to these things-they’re already shipped ! So what do you do? It doesn’t work because the buttons and the controls can’t change." — Steve Jobs, MacWorld, 2007
"Apple made him a multi-millionaire, Pixar made him a billionaire. [...] And despite all that, he still can't choose a mobile phone. [...] His problem, he says, is that he can't find things that satisfy him." — The Independant, 2005
"I saw my first computer when I was twelve. It was at the NASA -we have a local NASA center nearby. It was a terminal, which was connected to a big computer somewhere. And I got a timesharing account on it. I was fascinated by this thing." — Steve Jobs, 1990
"Toy Story has really exceeded our expectations. It's about a hundred and eighty millions right now, it's a mystic box office. It's being released internationally as we speak, and we're coming out with some CD-ROMS based on Toy Story - they're dynamite." — Steve Jobs, 1996
"Vision for Apple was: What incredible benefits can we give to the customer? Where can we take the customer ? Not starting with 'let's sit down with the engineers, and figure out what awesome technology we have and how we're gonna market that.'" — Steve Jobs, WWDC, 1997
"There are thousands of people out there who use it now, but there aren't millions. If we can get that out there, I think it's gonna change a lot." — Steve Jobs, WWDC, 1997
"To build a great company, you need more than a great product. You have to pay attention to all the different areas and be as aggressive with them as with your product. Otherwise, you'll spend half your time fixing things that break." — Steve Jobs, 1989
"You know who Alexander's tutor was for about 14 years ? Aristotle. I read this and become immensely jealous - I think I would have enjoyed that, a great deal - and through the miracle of a printed page, I can at least read what Aristotle wrote." -Steve Jobs, about media, 1985
"We want a company where really bright people can come and be handed a lot of responsibility early on. If we have an exciting place to work, we can get the best and the brightest to come work here." — Steve Jobs, 1989
"People get far more excited about doing something as well as it can be done than about doing something adequately. If they are working in an environment where excellence is expected, then they will do excellent work without anything but self-motivation." — Steve Jobs, 1989
"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. They somehow already know what you truly want to become. Everything else is secondary." - Steve Jobs
"We entered the year with an incredible app called iMovie 2.[It] is far ahead of anything else, for consumer video editing. We have millions and millions of people out there making their movie on their Macs, it is so easy to use you don't have to read a manual." -Steve Jobs, 2001
"We're called Microsoft. And our part of Macintosh is five new programs that are bright, intuitive, outgoing, understanding and born to perform." — Microsoft Ad for the Macintosh, MacWorld Magazine, 1987
"If we hadn't made blues boxes, there wouldn't have been no Apple. Because we wouldn't have not only the confidence that we could build something and make it work [...] but we also had the sense of magic that we could influence the world." —Steve Jobs, 1994
"You’ve got to be a really good talent scout because no matter how smart you are, you need a team of great people. You’ve got to figure out how to size people up fairly quickly, make decisions without knowing people too well" - Steve Jobs, D5 conference, 2007