The only way to be truly satisfied is to do what you believe is great work
Your work is going to fill a large part of your life, and the only way to be truly satisfied is to do what you believe is great work. And 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. As with all matters of the heart, you'll know when you find it.
Your time is limited, so don't waste it living someone else's life.
If you haven't found it yet, keep looking.
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.
You're already naked. There is no reason not to follow your heart.
You can't connect the dots looking forward; you can only connect them looking backwards.
That's been one of my mantras - focus and simplicity. 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.
Being the richest man in the cemetery doesn't matter to me.
Simple can be harder than complex. You have to work hard to get your thinking clean to make it simple.
Again, you can't connect the dots looking forward; you can only connect them looking backwards. So you have to trust that the dots will somehow connect in your future. 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.
Focus and simplicity...once you get there, you can move mountains.
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.
Remembering that I’ll be dead soon is the most important tool I’ve ever encountered to help make the big choices in life. Remembering that you are going to die is the best way I know to avoid the trap of thinking you have something to lose.
You have to trust in something--your gut, destiny, life, karma, whatever.
Don't settle, as with all matters of the heart you'll know when you find it
Choose a job you love, and you will never have to work a day in your life.
When you ask creative people how they did something, they feel a little guilty because they didn't really do it, they just saw something.
It's really hard to design products by focus groups. A lot of times, people don't know what they want until you show it to them.
I didn't see it then, but it turned out that getting fired from Apple 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 again, less sure about everything. It freed me to enter one of the most creative periods of my life.
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