Steve Jobs on non-conformists

Here's to the crazy ones, the misfits, the rebels, the troublemakers, the round pegs in square holes... the ones who see things differently - they're not fond of rules, and they have no respect for the status quo.  You can quote them, disagree with them, glorify or vilify them.  About the only thing you can't do is ignore them.  Because they change things.

~ Steve Jobs

Steve Jobs on work and passion

The only way to do great work is to love what you do.

~ Steve Jobs

Steve Jobs on asking for help

I've never found anyone who said no or hung up the phone when I called.  I just asked.  And when people ask me, I try to be as responsive to pay that debt of gratitude back.  Most people never pick up the phone and call.  Most people never ask.  And that's what separates sometimes, the people who do things from the people who just dream about them. 

~ Steve Jobs, "Just Ask"

Steve Jobs on vision

You can't connect the dots looking forward; you can only connect them looking backwards. 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.

~ Steve Jobs

Dan Pallotta on Steve Jobs and philanthropy

Last year Change.org wrote of Steve Jobs, "It's high time the minimalist CEO became a magnanimous philanthropist."

I've got news for you. He has been. What's important is how we use our time on this earth, not how conspicuously we give our money away. What's important is the energy and courage we are willing to expend reversing entropy, battling cynicism, suffering and challenging mediocre minds, staring down those who would trample our dreams, taking a stand for magic, and advancing the potential of the human race.

On these scores, the world has no greater philanthropist than Steve Jobs. If ever a man contributed to humanity, here he is. And he has done it while battling cancer.

~ Dan Pallotta, "Steve Jobs, World's Greatest Philanthropist," Harvard Business Review, September 2, 2011

Steve Jobs on "how to live before you die"

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. They somehow already know what you truly want to become. Everything else is secondary. 

~ Steve Jobs, Commencement speech given at Stanford University, "How to Live Before You Die," June, 2005