{"id":181,"date":"2011-10-06T18:51:28","date_gmt":"2011-10-06T18:51:28","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/meditationiseasy.com\/blog\/?p=181"},"modified":"2011-10-06T18:51:28","modified_gmt":"2011-10-06T18:51:28","slug":"remembering-steve-jobs","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.meditationiseasy.com\/blog\/contemplation\/remembering-steve-jobs\/","title":{"rendered":"Remembering Steve Jobs…."},"content":{"rendered":"

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It is a sad news for all of us.\u00a0 One of the most intelligent,\u00a0 inspirational, loved, discussed and admired technology leaders of our time – Steve Jobs is no more.<\/p>\n

After battling a long fight with cancer, he breathed his last yesterday. It is the end of an era. A visionary who changed the lives of millions through his remarkable Apple products has gone into the eternal sleep.<\/p>\n

May his soul rest in peace.<\/p>\n

Here are some motivational golden nuggets uttered by this great man during his lifetime :<\/p>\n

\u201cBeing the richest man in the cemetery doesn\u2019t matter to me \u2026 Going to bed at night saying we\u2019ve done something wonderful\u2026 that\u2019s what matters to me.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cBe a yardstick of quality. Some people aren\u2019t used to an environment where excellence is expected.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cI 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\u2019t that important because I never did it for the money.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cThe only problem with Microsoft is they just have no taste. They have absolutely no taste. And I don\u2019t mean that in a small way, I mean that in a big way, in the sense that they don\u2019t think of original ideas, and they don\u2019t bring much culture into their products.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cMy job is to not be easy on people. My job is to make them better.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cWe made the buttons on the screen look so good you\u2019ll want to lick them.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cYou can\u2019t just ask customers what they want and then try to give that to them. By the time you get it built, they\u2019ll want something new.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cDesign is not just what it looks like and feels like. Design is how it works.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cWhy join the navy if you can be a pirate?\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cA lot of companies have chosen to downsize, and maybe that was the right thing for them. We chose a different path. Our belief was that if we kept putting great products in front of customers, they would continue to open their wallets.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cInnovation distinguishes between a leader and a follower.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cPeople think focus means saying yes to the thing you\u2019ve got to focus on. But that\u2019s not what it means at all. It means saying no to the hundred other good ideas that there are. You have to pick carefully.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cWe don\u2019t get a chance to do that many things, and every one should be really excellent. Because this is our life.
\nLife is brief, and then you die, you know?
\nAnd we\u2019ve all chosen to do this with our lives. So it better be damn good. It better be worth it.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cHere\u2019s to the crazy ones, the misfits, the rebels, the troublemakers, the round pegs in the square holes\u2026 the ones who see things differently \u2014 they\u2019re not fond of rules\u2026 You can quote them, disagree with them, glorify or vilify them, but the only thing you can\u2019t do is ignore them because they change things\u2026 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.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cYour time is limited, so don\u2019t waste it living someone else\u2019s life. Don\u2019t be trapped by dogma \u2013 which is living with the results of other people\u2019s thinking. Don\u2019t let the noise of other\u2019s opinions drown out your own inner voice. And most important, have the courage to follow your heart and intuition. They somehow already know what you truly want to become. Everything else is secondary.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cInnovation has nothing to do with how many R&D dollars you have. When Apple came up with the Mac, IBM was spending at least 100 times more on R&D. It\u2019s not about money. It\u2019s about the people you have, how you\u2019re led, and how much you get it.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cI\u2019m convinced that about half of what separates the successful entrepreneurs from the non-successful ones is pure perseverance.\u201d<\/p>\n

“I would trade all of my technology for an afternoon with Socrates.”<\/p>\n

I think this was his best:
\n\u201cI want to put a ding in the universe.\u201d<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Thanks Steve for making our lives better !<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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