Have you ever been inspired by someone or someone’s product? Personally, I have been inspired by Steve Jobs’s famous quotes,  speeches and even his apple products that he had introduced when he was still around. This post is a tribute towards the recent death of Steve Jobs (February 24, 1955 – October 5, 2011). Thanks Steve for travelling the extra mile to make a difference in people lives by creating great product and saying inspirational words for anyone who is on the journey to success.

The following is the list of Steve Jobs famous quotes that have inspired me and I hope you will be inspired by them too:

1. “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.”

2. “To turn really interesting ideas and fledgling technologies into a company that can continue to innovate for years, it requires a lot of disciplines.”

3. “I want to put a ding in the universe.”

4. “Do you want to spend the rest of your life selling sugared water or do you want a chance to change the world?”

5. “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.”

6. “Design is not just what it looks like and feels like. Design is how it works.”

7. ‎”Being the richest man in the cemetery doesn’t matter to me … Going to bed at night saying we’ve done something wonderful … that’s what matters to me.”

8. “Innovation distinguishes between a leader and a follower.”

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

10. “I’m the only person I know that’s lost a quarter of a billion dollars in one year…. It’s very character-building.”

11. “If you haven’t found it yet, keep looking. Don’t settle. As with all matters of the heart, you’ll know when you find it. And, like any great relationship, it just gets better and better as the years roll on.”

12. “When I was 17, I read a quote that went something like: “If you live each day as if it was your last, someday you’ll most certainly be right.” It made an impression on me, and since then, for the past 33 years, I have looked in the mirror every morning and asked myself: “If today were the last day of my life, would I want to do what I am about to do today?” And whenever the answer has been “No” for too many days in a row, I know I need to change something.”

13. “We don’t get a chance to do that many things, and every one should be really excellent. Because this is our life. Life is brief, and then you die, you know? And we’ve all chosen to do this with our lives. So it better be damn good. It better be worth it.”

14. “Remembering that you are going to die is the best way I know to avoid the trap of thinking you have something to lose.”

15. “No one wants to die. Even people who want to go to heaven don’t want to die to get there. And yet death is the destination we all share. No one has ever escaped it. And that is as it should be, because Death is very likely the single best invention in Life. It is Life’s change agent. It clears out the old to make way for the new. Right now the new is you, but someday not too long from now, you will gradually become the old and be cleared away. Sorry to be so dramatic, but it is quite true.”

16. Stay hungry… stay foolish.”

17. “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.”

18. “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. But it’s worth it in the end because once you get there, you can move mountains.”

19. “I’m convinced that about half of what separates the successful entrepreneurs from the non-successful ones is pure perseverance.”

Do give a comment if you really do appreciate what Steve Jobs had done for you or have changed your mindset of the world. Cheers