Steve Jobs quotes with context

Steve Jobs (1955 to 2011) founded Apple in 1976 with Steve Wozniak and Ronald Wayne. After his return in 1997 he cut most of the product line, and the iMac, iPod and iPhone followed. Many of his lines come from interviews and from his 2005 commencement speech at Stanford.

8 quotes by Steve Jobs

Focus 8

  1. When you know what you want everything else becomes noise.

  2. What you leave out speaks just as much as what you do.

  3. Concentration is the art of saying no.

  4. The first step toward focus is to say no.

  5. Simplicity requires discipline; complexity arises by itself.

  6. Saying no to everything else is saying yes to what matters.

  7. Whoever excludes the unimportant has room for what matters.

  8. The best thing about a clear goal is that everything else becomes unimportant.

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