# Steve Jobs's most famous quotes (and the ones that aren't his)

From the 2005 Stanford speech to the 'bicycle for our minds' and 'design is how it works': Steve Jobs's lines with their source, plus the famous ones he borrowed, like 'Stay hungry, stay foolish'.

- 1 vote · 14 items
- Apr 15, 2022 · Diego Azevedo Cardoso
- https://even.best/en/l/4651/steve-jobs-s-most-famous-quotes-and-the-ones-that-aren-t-his

## Top 14

1. **Death is very likely the single best invention of Life.** (1 · ▲1 ▼0) — Stanford address, 2005, a year after his cancer diagnosis.
2. **You can't connect the dots looking forward; you can only connect them looking backwards.** (0 · ▲0 ▼0) — Stanford commencement address, 12 June 2005.
3. **Your time is limited, so don't waste it living someone else's life.** (0 · ▲0 ▼0) — Stanford address, 2005.
4. **Sometimes life hits you in the head with a brick. Don't lose faith.** (0 · ▲0 ▼0) — Stanford address, 2005, on being fired from Apple in 1985.
5. **Real artists ship.** (0 · ▲0 ▼0) — Motto during the Macintosh's development, recounted in the book West of Eden.
6. **It's more fun to be a pirate than to join the Navy.** (0 · ▲0 ▼0) — At a Macintosh team retreat, September 1982.
7. **Do you want to spend the rest of your life selling sugared water or do you want a chance to change the world?** (0 · ▲0 ▼0) — Persuading John Sculley, then president of Pepsi, to join Apple, 1983.
8. **It's the equivalent of a bicycle for our minds.** (0 · ▲0 ▼0) — Documentary Memory and Imagination, 1991.
9. **Being the richest man in the cemetery doesn't matter to me.** (0 · ▲0 ▼0) — The Wall Street Journal, 1993, on Bill Gates's success.
10. **A lot of times, people don't know what they want until you show it to them.** (0 · ▲0 ▼0) — BusinessWeek, 25 May 1998.
11. **It's not just what it looks like and feels like. Design is how it works.** (0 · ▲0 ▼0) — The New York Times Magazine, 30 November 2003.
12. **And one more thing…** (0 · ▲0 ▼0) — The phrase he used to announce surprises at the end of his keynotes.
13. **Stay hungry, stay foolish.** (0 · ▲0 ▼0) — Not his: it comes from the back cover of the Whole Earth Epilog (1974), as he said himself at Stanford.
14. **Good artists copy; great artists steal.** (0 · ▲0 ▼0) — A line he liked to repeat, crediting Picasso; its origin is uncertain (perhaps T. S. Eliot).

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