13 Steve Jobs Lines On Money
1. "Well, they’re just yardsticks, you know." (Steve Jobs) Click to tweet
2. "Bottom line is, i didn’t return to apple to make a fortune. I’ve been very lucky in my life and already have one." (Steve Jobs) Click to tweet
3. "It makes me feel old, sometimes, when i speak at a campus and i find that what students are most in awe of is the fact that i’m a millionaire." (Steve Jobs) Click to tweet
4. "You should never start a company with the goal of getting rich. Your goal should be making something you believe in and making a company that will last." (Steve Jobs) Click to tweet
5. "I think money is a wonderful thing because it enables you to do things, it enables you to invest in ideas that don’t have a short-term payback and things like that." (Steve Jobs) Click to tweet
6. "It’s very interesting, i was worth about over a million dollars when i was 23 and over 10 million when i was 24 and over a hundred million when i was 25 and it wasn’t that important because i never did it for the money." (Steve Jobs) Click to tweet
7. "When i was 25, my net worth was $100 million or so. I decided then that i wasn’t going to let it ruin my life. There’s no way you could ever spend it all, and i don’t view wealth as something that validates my intelligence." (Steve Jobs) Click to tweet
8. "Well, they’re just yardsticks, you know. The neatest thing was, by 1979, i was able to walk into classrooms that had 15 apple computers and see the kids using them. And those are the kinds of things that are really the milestones." (Steve Jobs) Click to tweet
9. "None of those people care about the money. I mean, a lot of them made a lot of money, but they don’t really care. Their lifestyles haven’t particularly changed. It was the chance to actually try something, to fail, to succeed, to grow." (Steve Jobs) Click to tweet
10. "But especially at that point in my life it was not the most important thing, the most important thing was the company, the people, the products we were making, what we were going to enable people to do with these products so i didn’t think about it a great deal, and i never sold any stock, just really believe that the company would do very well over the long term." (Steve Jobs) Click to tweet
11. "I’m not going to let it ruin my life. Isn’t it kind of funny? You know, my main reaction to this money thing is that it’s humorous, all the attention to it, because it’s hardly the most insightful or valuable thing that’s happened to me in the past ten years." (Steve Jobs) Click to tweet
12. "I still don’t understand it. It’s a large responsibility to have more than you can spend in your lifetime, and i feel i have to spend it. If you die, you certainly don’t want to leave a large amount to your children. It will just ruin their lives. And if you die without kids, it will all go to the government. Almost everyone would think that he could invest the money back into humanity in a much more astute way than the government could. The challenges are to figure out how to live with it and to reinvest it back into the world, which means either giving it away or using it to express your concerns or values." (Steve Jobs) Click to tweet
13. "It was giant! We did about $200,000 when our business was in the garage, in 1976. In 1977, about $7,000,000 in business. I mean, it was phenomenal! And in 1978, we did $17,000,000. In 1979, we did $47,000,000. That’s when we all really sensed that this was just going through the rafters. In 1980, we did $117,000,000. In 1981, we did $335,000,000. In 1982, we did $583,000,000. In 1983, we did $985,000,000, i think. This year, it will be a billion and a half." (Steve Jobs) Click to tweet
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