Steve jobs quotes - part1

On Passion

"People say you have to have lot of passion for what you doing and it is totally true and the reason is because it is so hard that, if you don't, any rational person would give up.

It is really hard and you have to do it over a sustain period of time. So if you don't love it, if you are not having fun doing it, you don't really love it, you are going to give up and that's what happening with most people.

Actually if you really look it, at the ones that ended us being successful on the eyes of society and the ones didn't, often times it's the ones that successful, loved what they did, so like they push a year when it got really tough. And ones that didn't love it, QUIT, because they're sane. Right, who would want put up stuff if you don't love it. So it's lot of hard work and it is lot of worrying constantly and if you don't love it, you're gonna fail. So you gonna love it and have passion"

On team building

"Greatest people are self-managing, they don't need to be managed. Once they know what to do, they're going to figure out how to do it. They don't need to be managed at all.

What they need is a common vision and that's what leadership is. What leadership is having a vision, being able to articulate that so the people around you can understand it and giving a consensus on common vision.

We wanted people that were insanely great at what they did. But weren't necessarily those seasoned professionals. But who has on at the tips of there fingers, in there passion, the latest understanding where technology was and what we could do with that technology and wanted to bring them, lots of people.

So the nearest thing that happens is when you get a core group of 10 great people, it becomes self policing as they who let into their group. So I consider the most important job of someone like myself is recruiting.

We went through that stage in Apple where we .. Oh! we're going to be a big company, let's have professional management. We went and hired a bunch of professional management, it didn't work at all. Most of them are bozos, they knew how to management, but they didn't knew how to do anything and so if you're a great person, why do you want to work for someone, you can't learn anything from.

And you know what's interesting? you know who're the best managers are? they're the great individual contributors, who never ever want to be a manager, but decide they have to be a manager, because no one else is going to being able to do job as them"

On money

"It's very interesting, I was worth over a million when I was 23 and over 10 million dollars when I was 24 and over 100 million dollar when I was 25. And it wasn't that important, because I never did it for money.

I think money is wonderful thing because it enables you to do things, enables you to invest in ideas that don't have short term pay backs like that, but specially at that point in life it was not the most important thing. The most important thing was the company, the people, the products we were making, what we are going to enable people do with these products. So I don' think about it a great deal.

I never sold any stock, just really believed that the company will do very well over the long term"