Steve Jobs Quotes About Values

Quotes about: Values

• The most powerful person in the world is the story teller.
  The storyteller sets the vision, values and agenda
  of an entire generation that is to come.

  Steve Jobs

  Powerful, Vision, World

• One way to drive fear out of a relationship is to realize that your partner's values are the same as yours, that what you care about is exactly what they care about. In my opinion, that drives fear out and makes for a great partnership, whether it's a corporate partnership or a marriage.

  Steve Jobs

  Care, Way, Opinion

• Marketing is about values. It's a complicated and noisy world, and we're not going to get a chance to get people to remember much about us. No company is. So we have to be really clear about what we want them to know about us.

  Steve Jobs

  People, Marketing, World

• I thought deeply about this. I ended up concluding that the worst thing that could possibly happen as we get big and as we get a little more influence in the world is if we change our core values and start letting it slide, I can't do that. I'd rather quit.

  Steve Jobs

  World, Littles, Slides

• I'm not dismissing the value of higher education; I'm simply saying it comes at the expense of experience.

  Steve Jobs

  Inspirational, Leadership, Higher Education

• The best way to create value in the 21st century is to connect Creativity with Technology

  Steve Jobs

  Creativity, Technology, Way

• The problem with the Internet startup craze isn't that too many people are starting companies; it's that too many people aren't sticking with it. That's somewhat understandable, because there are many moments that are filled with despair and agony, when you have to fire people and cancel things and deal with very difficult situations. That's when you find out who you are and what your values are.

  Steve Jobs

  Business, Difficult Situations, Agony

  Steve Jobs (0101). “Motivating Thoughts of Steve Jobs”, p.69, Prabhat Prakashan

• I naively chose a college that was almost as expensive as Stanford, and all of my working-class parents savings were being spent on my college tuition. After six months I couldn't see the value in it. I had no idea what I wanted to do with my life and no idea how college was going to help me figure it out.

  Steve Jobs

  College, Class, Ideas

  Commencement Address at Stanford University, delivered 12 June 2005, Palo Alto, CA

• So when these people sell out, even though they get fabulously rich, they're gypping themselves out of one of the potentially most rewarding experiences of their unfolding lives. Without it, they may never know their values or how to keep their newfound wealth in perspective.

  Steve Jobs

  Business, People, Perspective

  Steve Jobs (0101). “Motivating Thoughts of Steve Jobs”, p.68, Prabhat Prakashan

• It places value on experience versus intellectual understanding. I saw a lot of people contemplating things but it didn't seem to lead to too many places. I got very interested in people who had discovered something more significant than an intellectual, abstract understanding.

  Steve Jobs

  People, Understanding, Intellectual

• John Sculley ruined Apple and he ruined it by bringing a set of values to the top of Apple which were corrupt and corrupted some of the top people who were there, drove out some of the ones who were not corruptible, and brought in more corrupt ones and paid themselves collectively tens of millions of dollars and cared more about their own glory and wealth than they did about what built Apple in the first place which was making great computers for people to use.

  Steve Jobs

  Apples, People, Firsts

  Excerpts from an Oral History Interview with Daniel Morrow: "The Growth of Apple Computer", americanhistory.si.edu. April 20, 1995.

• By honoring the lives of those we admire, we make our own values known.

  Steve Jobs

  Admire, Known, Values

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