10 Inspiring Quotes from Steve Jobs

The world lost a great visionary today. Steve Jobs passed away at the young age ot 56 from pancreatic cancer. As a designer, I owe my creativity to such an innovative genius. To celebrate the life of Steve Jobs, here are 10 inspiring and thought provoking quotes attributed to the man who brought us technology that transformed our lives.

Job quality was important to Steve Jobs as indicated in this quote:
Be a yardstick of quality. Some people aren't used to an environment where excellence is expected.

Steve Jobs discusses why it's important to find a career in which you have a passion for:
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, and don't settle. As with all matters of the heart, you'll know when you find it.

Another reason it was apparent Steve Jobs loved what he did:
I was worth over $1,000,000 when I was 23, and over $10,000,000 when I was 24, and over $100,000,000 when I was 25, and it wasn't that important because I never did it for the money.

It's true that Steve Jobs was a great innovator, and he understood why sometimes our creative ideas might fail as evident in this quote:
Sometimes when you innovate, you make mistakes. It is best to admit them quickly, and get on with improving your other innovations.

Another thought provoking quote on innovation:
Innovation distinguishes between a leader and a follower.

Steve Jobs on the creative process:
So when a good idea comes, you know, part of my job is to move it around, just see what different people think, get people talking about it, argue with people about it, get ideas moving among that group of 100 people, get different people together to explore different aspects of it quietly, and, you know - just explore things.

On the importance of loving and believing in what you are creating:
I think the key thing is that we're not all terrified at the same time. I mean, we do put our heart and soul into these things.

Steve Jobs on what the word design meant to him:
In most people's vocabularies, design means veneer. It's interior decorating. It's the fabric of the curtains of the sofa. But to me, nothing could be further from the meaning of design. Design is the fundamental soul of a human-made creation that ends up expressing itself in successive outer layers of the product or service.

The following quote summarizes exactly what Steve Jobs did ... change the world:
Do you want to spend the rest of your life selling sugared water or do you want a chance to change the world?

Steve, you left the world with some of the most exciting technologies around. We honor you with this last quote:
Click. Boom. Amazing!

Sources:
www.apple.com
http://www.usatoday.com/tech/news/story/2011-09-22/steve-jobs-dies/50672498/1?csp=34news
www.brainyquote.com
www.macstories.net