11 Success, Creativity and Inspirational lessons I learned from Steve Jobs
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About Steve Jobs
Steve Jobs was the CEO and Founder of Apple, Founder of Pixar and Chairman and CEO of NeXT.
He is considered to be the father of the modern-day computer technology and someone who had a great passion for what he did.
Steve Jobs inspired and continue to inspire many people to follow their passion and do something they truly believe in.
Here are some of the lessons we can all pick from Steve Jobs. If any of them relates to what you believe in remember to share. You can also leave a comment with your favorite quote at the end.
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11 Most Motivational, Inspirational and Success Rules by Steve Jobs
Your life is limited. Follow your heart and Intuition.
“Remembering that I’ll be dead soon is the most important tool I’ve ever encountered to help me make the big choices in life. Because, almost everything — all external expectations, all pride, all fear of embarrassment or failure — these things just fall away in the face of death, leaving only what is truly important. 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 are already naked. There is no reason not to follow your heart. Stay hungry. Stay foolish.”
“Your time is limited, so don’t waste it living someone else’s life. Don’t be trapped by dogma—which is living with the results of other people’s thinking. Don’t let the noise of others’ opinions drown out your own inner voice. And most important, have the courage to follow your heart and intuition.”
Make and sell Quality Products; don’t sell Crap.
“When you’re a carpenter making a beautiful chest of drawers, you’re not going to use a piece of plywood on the back, even though it faces the wall and nobody will see it. You’ll know it’s there, so you’re going to use a beautiful piece of wood on the back. For you to sleep well at night, the aesthetic, the quality, has to be carried all the way through.”
“Quality is more important than quantity. One home run is much better than two doubles.”
Have passion in what you do
“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.”
Shun Focus groups. Do what is really important to you.
“When you grow up you tend to get told the world is the way it is and your life is just to live your life in the world. Try not to bash into the walls too much. Try to have a nice family, have fun, save a little money. “That’s a very limited life. Life can be much broader once you discover one simple fact: Everything around you that you call life was made up by people that were no smarter than you and you can change it, you can influence it, and you can build your own things that other people can use. “Once you learn that, you’ll never be the same again.”
Build a great team and brutally honest
“I’m brutally honest, because the price of admission to being in the room with me is I get to tell you-you’re full of shit if you’re full of shit, and you get to say to me I’m full of shit, and we have some rip-roaring fights. And that keeps the B players, the bozos, from leading the organization, only the A players survive. And the people who do survive, say, ‘Yeah, he was rough.’ They say things even worse than ‘He cut in line in front of me,’ but they say, ‘This was the greatest ride I’ve ever had, and I would not give it up for anything.”
“My job is to not be easy on people. It is to make them better. My job is to pull things together from different parts of the company and clear the ways and get the resources for the key projects. And to take these great people we have and to push them and make them even better, coming up with more aggressive visions of how it could be.”
Do the right thing, first time every time
“We had a fundamental belief that doing it right the first time was going to be easier than having to go back and fix it. And I cannot say strongly enough that the repercussions of that attitude are staggering. I’ve seen them again and again throughout my business life.”
“See, one of the things you have to remember is that we started off with a very idealistic perspective-that doing something with the highest quality, doing it right the first time, would really be cheaper than having to go back and do it again. Ideas like that.”
Have a strong belief in yourself and trust your Karma
“For the past 33 years, I have looked in the mirror every morning and asked myself: ‘If today were the last day of my life, would I want to do what I am about to do today?’ And whenever the answer has been ‘No’ for too many days in a row, I know I need to change something.”
“You can’t connect the dots looking forward; you can only connect them looking backward. 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.”
Money is important but should not be the goal in life
“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.”
“Bottom line is, I didn’t return to Apple to make a fortune. I’ve been very lucky in my life and already have one. When I was 25, my net worth was $100 million or so. I decided then that I wasn’t going to let it ruin my life. There’s no way you could ever spend it all, and I don’t view wealth as something that validates my intelligence.”
Have perseverance
“I’m convinced that about half of what separates successful entrepreneurs from the non-successful ones is pure perseverance.”
Simplify things
“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.”
Use your time well, you don’t have forever
“No one wants to die. Even people who want to go to heaven don’t want to die to get there. And yet, death is the destination we all share. No one has ever escaped it, and that is how it should be because death is very likely the single best invention of life. It’s life’s change agent. It clears out the old to make way for the new.”
Bonus Quote from Steve Jobs
My all-time best quote from Steve jobs is about changing the universe and creating my own future.
“Here’s to the crazy ones, the misfits, the rebels, the troublemakers, the round pegs in the square holes… the ones who see things differently — they’re not fond of rules… You can quote them, disagree with them, glorify or vilify them, but the only thing you can’t do is ignore them because they change things… they push the human race forward, and while some may see them as the crazy ones, we see genius, because the ones who are crazy enough to think that they can change the world, are the ones who do.”
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Conclusion
Make a decision today to do better, to be more and to have more success. Stop tolerating everything in your life. Have goals, rituals and an unstoppable desire to make it.
My giveaway: If it was easy, everyone would be doing it. And if you want something bad enough you will get it. No idea will work until you do the work.
To succeed you will have to pay the price.
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