\"We\'ve never worried about numbers. In the market place, Apple is trying to focus the spotlight on products, because products really make a difference. [...] Ad campaigns are necessary for competition; IBM\'s ads are everywhere. But good PR educates people; that\'s all it is. You can\'t con people in this business. The products speak for themselves.\" \r\n-- Playboy interview, 1985\r\n (credit:Getty)
(02 of08)
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\"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.\"\r\n-- BusinessWeek interview, May 1998\r\n\r\n (credit:Getty)
(03 of08)
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\"The most compelling reason for most people to buy a computer for the home will be to link it into a nationwide communications network. We\'re just in the beginning stages of what will be a truly remarkable breakthrough for most people--as remarkable as the telephone.\"\r\n-- Playboy interview, 1985 (credit:Getty)
(04 of08)
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\"We\'ve kept our marriage secret for over a decade.\"\r\n-- Jobs\' answer to Kara Swisher asking about the \"greatest misunderstanding\" in Jobs\' relationship with Bill Gates. (May 2007) (credit:Getty)
(05 of08)
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\"It\'s really hard to design products by focus groups. A lot of times, people don\'t know what they want until you show it to them.\"\r\n-- BusinessWeek interview, May 1998\r\n (credit:Getty)
(06 of08)
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\"[Y]ou 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. You have to trust in something -- your gut, destiny, life, karma, whatever. This approach has never let me down, and it has made all the difference in my life.\"\r\n-- Stanford University commencement address, June 2005.\r\n (credit:Getty)
(07 of08)
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\"My sex life is pretty good these days, Walt. How\'s yours?\" \r\n-- Jobs\'s response to a question from Walt Mossberg about how Jobs feels about Google and if he feels \"betrayed.\" (June, 2010)\r\n\r\n(Jobs also added, \"Well they decided to compete with us. We didn\'t go into the search business.\") (credit:Getty)
(08 of08)
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\"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. Because 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. ... Stay hungry. Stay foolish.\"\r\n-- Stanford University commencement address, June 2005.\r\n\r\n (credit:Getty)