Steve Jobs Words/Quotes on Simplicity Love and Jesus

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Focusing is about saying no.

We believe that customers are smart and want objects which are well thought through.

I end up not buying a lot of things, because I find them ridiculous.

Look at the design of a lot of consumer products – they’re really complicated surfaces. We tried to make something much more holistic and simple.

The way we’re running the company, the product design, the advertising, it all comes down to this: Let’s make it simple. Really simple.

Simple can be harder than complex: You have to work hard to get your thinking clean to make it simple. But it’s worth it in the end because once you get there, you can move mountains.

We’re always thinking about new markets we could enter, but it’s only by saying no that you can concentrate on the things that are really important.

When you first start off trying to solve a problem, the first solutions you come up with are very complex, and most people stop there. But if you keep going, and live with the problem and peel more layers of the onion off, you can oftentimes arrive at some very elegant and simple solutions. Most people just don’t put in the time or energy to get there.

My favorite things in life don’t cost any money. 

Well, my favorite things in life are books, sushi and… My favorite things in life don’t cost any money. It’s really clear that the most precious resource we all have is time. As it is, I pay a price by not having much of a personal life. I don’t have the time to pursue love affairs or to tour small towns in Italy and sit in cafés and eat tomato-and-mozzarella salad.

What I found when I got here was a zillion and one products. It was amazing. And I started to ask people, now why would I recommend a 3400 over a 4400? When should somebody jump up to a 6500, but not a 7300? And after three weeks, I couldn’t figure this out. If I couldn’t figure this out… how could our customers figure this out?

Apple is a $30 billion company, yet we’ve got less than 30 major products. I don’t know if that’s ever been done before. Certainly the great consumer electronics companies of the past had thousands of products. We tend to focus much more. People think focus means saying yes to the thing you’ve got to focus on. But that’s not what it means at all. It means saying no to the hundred other good ideas that there are. You have to pick carefully.

I have a very simple life. I have my family and I have Apple and Pixar. And I don’t do much else.

We try to focus and do very few things well. And focusing is hard because focusing doesn’t mean saying yes, it means saying no. So we decide not to do a lot of things so we can focus on a handful of things and do them well.

Just get rid of the crappy stuff and focus on the good stuff.

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Steve Jobs Quotes on Love

you don’t love it, if you’re not having fun doing it, you don’t really love it, you’re going to give up.

That was one of the things that came out most clearly from this whole experience [with cancer]. I realized that I love my life. I really do. I’ve got the greatest family in the world, and I’ve got my work. And that’s pretty much all I do. I don’t socialize much or go to conferences. I love my family, and I love running Apple, and I love Pixar. And I get to do that. I’m very lucky.

People say you have to have a lot of passion for what you’re doing and it’s totally true. And the reason is because it’s so hard that if you don’t, any rational person would give up. It’s really hard. And you have to do it over a sustained period of time.

I’ve been rejected, but I was still in love. 

If you really look at the ones that ended up, you know, being “successful” in the eyes of society and the ones that didn’t, oftentimes, it’s the ones who were successful and loved what they did so they could persevere, you know, when it got really tough. And the ones that didn’t love it quit because they’re sane, right? Who would want to put up with this stuff if you don’t love it?

I was lucky, I found what I loved to do early in life. Woz and I started Apple in my parents’ garage when I was 20.

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Steve Jobs Beliefs on Jesus and Religion

When you die, it doesn’t just all disappear.

Ever since I’ve had cancer, I’ve been thinking about it more. And I find myself believing a bit more. I kind of – maybe it’s ’cause I want to believe in an afterlife. That when you die, it doesn’t just all disappear. The wisdom you’ve accumulated. Somehow it lives on, but sometimes I think it’s just like an on-off switch. Click and you’re gone. And that’s why I don’t like putting on-off switches on Apple devices.

I believe life is an intelligent thing, that things aren’t random.

I think different religions are different doors to the same house. Sometimes I think the house exists, and sometimes I don’t. It’s a great mystery.

Sometimes I believe in God, sometimes I don’t. I think it’s 50-50 maybe.

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