Creativity is just connecting things.
Why join the navy if you can be a pirate?
I've been rejected, but I am still in love.
The people who are crazy enough to think they can change the world are the ones who do.
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.
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.
Details matter, it's worth waiting to get it right.
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.
Stay hungry. Stay foolish.
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.
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.
Have the courage to follow your heart and intuition. They somehow already know what you truly want to become. Everything else is secondary.
You have to be burning with an idea, or a problem, or a wrong that you want to right. If you're not passionate enough from the start, you'll never stick it out.
If you live each day as it was your last, someday you'll most certainly be right
Don’t let the noise of others’ opinions drown out your own inner voice."
[Stanford University commencement speech, 2005]
Your time is limited, so don't waste it living someone else's life.
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.
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.