Don’t let the noise of others’ opinions drown out your own inner voice."

[Stanford University commencement speech, 2005]

Sometimes life's going to hit you in the head with a brick. Don't lose faith. I'm convinced that the only thing that kept me going was that I loved what I did.

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

The heaviness of being successful was replaced by the lightness of being a beginner again.

Finally Jobs proposed Apple Computer. “I was on one of my fruitarian diets,” he explained. “I had just come back from the apple farm. It sounded fun, spirited, and not intimidating. Apple took the edge off the word ‘computer.’ Plus, it would get us ahead of Atari in the phone book

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