11 Steve Jobs Quotations On Perseverance

1. "You get your wind back, remember the finish line, and keep going." (Steve Jobs) Click to tweet

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2. "At apple, people are putting in 18-hour days." (Steve Jobs) Click to tweet

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3. "On the macintosh: it was as though we knew that once it was out of our hands, it wouldn’t be ours anymore." (Steve Jobs) Click to tweet

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4. "You’ve got to have an idea, or a problem or a wrong that you want to right that you’re passionate about, otherwise you’re not going to have the perseverance to stick it through. I think that’s half the battle right there." (Steve Jobs) Click to tweet

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5. "I don’t think i’ve ever worked so hard on something, but working on macintosh was the neatest experience of my life. Almost everyone who worked on it will say that. None of us wanted to release it at the end." (Steve Jobs) Click to tweet

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6. "Pixar has been a marathon, not a sprint. There are times when you run a marathon and you wonder, why am i doing this? But you take a drink of water, and around the next bend, you get your wind back, remember the finish line, and keep going." (Steve Jobs) Click to tweet

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7. "I’m convinced that about half of what separates the successful entrepreneurs from the non-successful ones is pure perseverance. It is so hard. You put so much of your life into this thing. There are such rough moments in time that i think most people give up. I don’t blame them. It’s really tough and it consumes your life." (Steve Jobs) Click to tweet

8. "If you’ve got a family and you’re in the early days of a company, i can’t imagine how one could do it. I’m sure it’s been done but it’s rough. It’s pretty much an eighteen hour day job, seven days a week for awhile. Unless you have a lot of passion about this, you’re not going to survive. You’re going to give it up." (Steve Jobs) Click to tweet

9. "I’ve read something that bill gates said about six months ago. He said, ‘i worked really, really hard in my 20s.’ and i know what he means because i worked really, really hard in my 20s too. Literally, you know, 7 days a week, a lot of hours every day. And it actually is a wonderful thing to do, because you can get a lot done. But you can’t do it forever, and you don’t want to do it forever, and you have to come up with ways of figuring out what the most important things are and working with other people even more." (Steve Jobs) Click to tweet

10. "On the macintosh: when we finally presented it at the shareholders’ meeting, everyone in the auditorium gave it a five-minute ovation. What was incredible to me was that i could see the mac team in the first few rows. It was as though none of us could believe we’d actually finished it. Everyone started crying." (Steve Jobs) Click to tweet

11. "As it was clear that the sixties were over, it was also clear that a lot of the people who had gone through the sixties ended up not really accomplishing what they set out to accomplish, and because they had thrown their discipline to the wind, they didn’t have much to fall back on." (Steve Jobs) Click to tweet