“I didn’t know I was going to run so fast”

Cum? Așa, cu brațele larg deschise, câștigând relaxat competiția, bătându-te cu pumnul în piept înainte de linia de final? Și obținând totodată un nou record mondial (9.69 secunde)?

“That’s the way to go so fast: relax and just focus.”

My favourite Steve Jobs quotes

10. “Why join the navy if you can be a pirate?”

9. “I didn’t see it then, but it turned out that getting fired from Apple was the best thing that could have ever happened to me. The heaviness of being successful was replaced by the lightness of being a beginner again, less sure about everything. It freed me to enter one of the most creative periods of my life.” – Stanford University commencement address, June 12, 2005

8. “I think if we manage the top line, the bottom line will follow.”

7. “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.”

6. “My girlfriend always laughs during sex – no matter what she’s reading.”

5. “Be a yardstick of quality. Some people aren’t used to an environment where excellence is expected.”

4. “.. 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.”

3. On fixing Apple: “The products suck! There’s no sex in them anymore!” - BusinessWeek, July 1997

2. “Do you want to spend the rest of your life selling sugared water or do you want a chance to change the world?” – The line he used to lure John Sculley as Apple’s CEO, according to Odyssey: Pepsi to Apple, by John Sculley and John Byrne

1.“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 other’s 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.”