科技奇人乔布斯一生传奇的经历作育了他不凡的成就。出生时被遗弃、在被领养中成长、到进大学时接触佛教、21岁从大学辍学，后与友人在车库创办公司。其所创立的苹果公司，对全球消费科技、甚至音乐艺术创作投注了一颗变革性的震撼弹；而苹果的产品，如iPod、iPhone、iPad等对80－90后的年轻人影响更是深远。
乔布斯一生致力于改变这个世界。他常这么说，也经常以此勉励他人。本文摘录了网路上流传的、乔布斯在接受媒体采访、以及公开演讲中的20个激励人心的经典话语，从中，你或许可以了解他成功的一些因素。
1. “I want to put a ding in the universe.”
【意思】我想在宇宙中留下一丝足迹。
2. “We’re here to put a dent in the universe. Otherwise why else even be here?”
【意思】我们活着就是在世界上留下足迹，难道还有其他的原因吗？
3. “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.”
【意思】要记住，死亡是每个人都将面临的命运，所以无需担心将失去什么。世上的东西生带不来、死带不走，所以要有跟随着内心向前走的勇气。
4. “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.”
【意思】带着无数的财产走向坟墓是无意义的。我认为更重要的是，可以在晚上睡前，告诉自己今天做了一件了不起的事。
5. “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.”
【意思】17 岁时，我曾读过一句名言：“假如把每一天都当做是人生的最后一天， 你终将明白人生的真谛。”这句话令我印象深刻。此后的33年， 每天早上我都会对着镜子问自已：“如果今天是生命的最后一天，我还会想去做我今天要做的事吗？”每当内心出现“不”的答案时，我知道就是自己需要改变的时候了。
6. “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.”
【意思】你必须相信一些事情，如勇气、命运、生活以及因果报应等。这些东西从没让我失望过，它们确实让我的生命变得很不一样。
7. “Your time is limited, so don’t waste it living someone else’s life. Don’t be trapped by dogma – which is living with the results of other people’s thinking. Don’t let the noise of other’s opinions drown out your own inner voice. And most important, have the courage to follow your heart and intuition. They somehow already know what you truly want to become. Everything else is secondary.”
【意思】人生短暂，不要浪费时间为他人而活；也不要被条条框框所桎梏，或活在别人的世界里；不要让别人的意见淹没你内心的呼唤。最重要的是，勇敢地跟随着自己的内心和直觉，只有它们才是真实的你，其他的一切都不是主要的。
8. “I would trade all of my technology for an afternoon with Socrates.”
【意思】我将以所拥有的技术，来换取一个和苏格拉底相聚的午后。
9. “Be a yardstick of quality. Some people aren’t used to an environment where excellence is expected.”
【意思】做一位专注完美的人，但要知道有些人是无法适应追求卓越的工作环境。
10. “Innovation distinguishes between a leader and a follower.”
【意思】领袖和追随者最大不同在于有没有创新。
11. “Creativity is just connecting things. When you ask creative people how they did something, they feel a little guilty because they didn’t really do it, they just saw something. It seemed obvious to them after a while.”
【意思】创造力就是能将不同的事物串联在一起。当你问那些有创意的人怎么处理事情时，他们会感到有点罪恶，因为他们并没有真正的发明什么，他们仅是善于观察事物并深知原委而已。
12. “You know, we don’t grow most of the food we eat. We wear clothes other people make. We speak a language that other people developed. We use a mathematics that other people evolved… I mean, we’re constantly taking things. It’s a wonderful, ecstatic feeling to create something that puts it back in the pool of human experience and knowledge.”
【意思】众所周知的，我们不需要种植粮食；也不用自己裁制衣服；我们使用着先人所发明的文字及算术。我想表达的是，人类一直在享受他人发明的成果。如果可以基于人类既有的经验和知识上来创造新的事物，那将是一个美好、欣喜的感受。
13. “I’m convinced that about half of what separates successful entrepreneurs from the non-successful ones is pure perseverance.”
【意思】我坚信，企业家之所以成功或失败，有一半的原因在于成功者是坚持不懈的。
14. “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. It freed me to enter one of the most creative periods of my life.”
【意思】我认为被苹果解雇是件很棒的经验，因为重新开始的轻松取代了成功带来的沉重包袱，这种拥抱自由的感觉，让我迈入人生中最富有创造力的阶段。
15. “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. 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. So keep looking until you find it. Don’t settle.”
【意思】工作将占去生命中大部份的时间，所以要有令人满意的人生，就去从事你觉得伟大的事。而要成就伟大的事业，你必须热爱你的工作。假如你还没有找到你所爱的职业，那就继续找寻，不要停顿下来。跟着你的内心走，当你找到这份工作时一定会知道的。随着时间的流逝，事情也将愈变愈好。所以，不要放弃，一直到你找到为止。
16. “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.”
【意思】假如你已经能将一件事情做得很好，那就应该着手去做别的令人欣喜的事情，但是别专注在同一件事情上太久，要不断寻找下一个挑战。
17. “Stay hungry, stay foolish”
【意思】求知若饥，虚心若愚
18. “Innovation is saying no to a thousand things.”
【意思】勇于说不。
19. “Quality is more important than quantity. One home run is much better than two doubles.”
【意思】品质重于数量，就像一支全垒打远远优于两支二垒安打。
20. “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.”
【意思】焦点团体座谈（focus group）很难设计出好的产品，除非将产品呈现给消费者看，否则大部份的人都不知道自己的需求是什么。**
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