Thread by @TheHustle, Steve Jobs passed away 9 years ago at the age of 56 [...]

Steve Jobs passed away 9 years ago at the age of 56 after a battle with pancreatic cancer.

Although he's gone, his legacy continues to inspire generations, including myself.

So I put together my favorite 56 quotes from the legendary genius that is Steve Jobs.

Here they are

1/56 “Have the courage to follow your heart and intuition. They somehow already know what you truly want to become. Everything else is secondary.”

2/56 “Creativity is just connecting things.”

3/56 “Don’t let the noise of others’ opinions drown out your own inner voice.”

4/56 "The only way to do great work is to love what you do. If you haven’t found it yet, keep looking. And don’t settle. As with all matters of the heart, you’ll know when you find it."

5/56 “Your time is limited, so don’t waste it living someone else’s life.”

6/56 “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.”

7/56 “Stay hungry. Stay foolish.”

8/56 "Innovation distinguishes between a leader and a follower."

9/56 "Be a yardstick of quality. Some people aren't used to an environment where excellence is expected."

10/56 "You can't just ask customers what they want and then try to give that to them. By the time you get it built, they'll want something new."

11/56 "Things don't have to change the world to be important."

12/56 "My favorite things in life don’t cost any money. It’s really clear that the most precious resource we all have is time."

13/56 "We’re just enthusiastic about what we do."

14/56 "I’m convinced that about half of what separates successful entrepreneurs from the non-successful ones is pure perseverance."

15/56 "The people who are crazy enough to think they can change the world are the ones who do."

16/56 "Let’s go invent tomorrow rather than worrying about what happened yesterday."

17/56 "I don’t care about being right. I care about success and doing the right thing."

18/56 "You have to believe that the dots will somehow connect in your future."

19/56 "Details matter, it’s worth waiting to get it right."

20/56 "Get closer than ever to your customers. So close that you tell them what they need well before they realize it themselves."

21/56 "I do not adopt softness towards others because I want to make them better."

22/56 "If you don’t love it, you’re going to fail."

23/56 "There is a tremendous amount of craftsmanship between a great idea and a great product."

25/56 "One way to remember who you are is to remember who your heroes are."

26/56 "People who know what they’re talking about don’t need PowerPoint."

27/56 "You have to trust in something, your gut, destiny, life, karma, whatever."

28/56 "Don’t let the noise of other’s opinions drown out your own inner voice."

29/56 "It’s more fun to be a pirate than to join the Navy."

30/56 "If you act like you can do something, then it will work."

31/56 "If you are willing to work hard and ask lots of questions, you can learn business pretty fast."

32/56 The best ideas have to win.

33/56 "We used to dream about this stuff. Now we get to build it. It’s pretty great."

34/56 "If you are working on something exciting that you really care about, you don’t have to be pushed. The vision pulls you."

35/56 "I think all of us need to be on guard against arrogance which knocks at the door whenever you’re successful."

36/56 "I think the things you most regret in life are things you didn’t do. What you really regret was never asking that girl to dance."

37/56 "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."

38/56 "Quality is more important than quantity. One home run is much better than two doubles."

39/56 "The people who are crazy enough to think they can change the world are the ones who do."

40/56 "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."

41/56 "What is Apple, after all? Apple is about people who think ‘outside the box,’ people who want to use computers to help them change the world, to help them create things that make a difference, and not just to get a job done."

42/56 "I think if you do something and it turns out pretty good, then you should go do something else wonderful, not dwell on it for too long. Just figure out what’s next."

43/56 "My model for business is The Beatles: They were four guys that kept each others’ negative tendencies in check; they balanced each other. And the total was greater than the sum of the parts."

44/56 "The doers are the major thinkers. The people that really create the things that change this industry are both the thinker and doer in one person."

45/56 "Ultimately, it comes down to taste. It comes down to trying to expose yourself to the best things that humans have done and then try to bring those things into what you’re doing."

46/56 "Have the courage to follow your heart and intuition. They somehow know what you truly want to become."

47/56 "I’m as proud of many of the things we haven’t done as the things we have done. Innovation is saying no to a thousand things."

48/56 “You have to be burning with an idea, or a problem, or a wrong that you want to right. If you’re not passionate enough from the start, you’ll never stick it out.”

49/56 "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."

50/56 "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."

51/56 "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. We worked hard, and in 10 years, Apple had grown from just the two of us in a garage into a $2 billion company with over 4000 employees."

52/56 "I’ve always been attracted to the more revolutionary changes. I don’t know why. Because they’re harder. They’re much more stressful emotionally. And you usually go through a period where everybody tells you that you’ve completely failed."

53/56 "That’s why we started Apple, we said you know, we have absolutely nothing to lose. I was 20 years old at the time, Woz was 24-25, so we have nothing to lose."

54/56 "Don’t take it all too seriously. If you want to live your life in a creative way, as an artist, you have to not look back too much. You have to be willing to take whatever you’ve done and whoever you were and throw them away."

55/56 "The only thing you have in your life is time. If you invest that time in yourself to have great experiences that are going to enrich you, then you can’t possibly lose."

56/56 “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.”

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