Jobs Thruth

Here are a few of the quotes from Steve Jobs that make me relate to him on a startup point of view.

1.“Sometimes when you innovate, you make mistakes. It is best to admit them quickly, and get on with improving your other innovations.”  -via
2. “You can’t just ask customers what they want and then try to give that to them. By the time you get it built, they’ll want something new.”– Inc. Magazine
3. “So we went to Atari and said, ‘Hey, we’ve got this amazing thing, even built with some of your parts, and what do you think about funding us? Or we’ll give it to you. We just want to do it. Pay our salary, we’ll come work for you.’ And they said, ‘No.’ So then we went to Hewlett-Packard, and they said, ‘Hey, we don’t need you. You haven’t got through college yet.” – Classic Gaming
4.“I’m convinced that about half of what separates the successful entrepreneurs from the non-successful ones is pure perseverance.” -All Things Digital 5
5. “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.” – Businessweek

6. “The problem with the Internet startup craze isn’t that too many people are starting companies; it’s that too many people aren’t sticking with it. That’s somewhat understandable, because there are many moments that are filled with despair and agony, when you have to fire people and cancel things and deal with very difficult situations. That’s when you find out who you are and what your values are.

7. To write a novel, you have to read a novel––one that reads like a mystery to most people. They’re not going to learn slash q-z any more than they’re going to learn Morse code. That is what Macintosh is all about.” Playboy


Because he came from the garage startup scenario I think he really understood entrepreneurship and what it takes to get to success. Let's just try to emulate what he did.