Have you ever been inspired by someone or someone’s product? Personally, I have been inspired by Steve Jobs’s famous quotes,  speeches and even his apple products that he had introduced when he was still around. This post is a tribute towards the recent death of Steve Jobs (February 24, 1955 – October 5, 2011). Thanks Steve for travelling the extra mile to make a difference in people lives by creating great product and saying inspirational words for anyone who is on the journey to success.

The following is the list of Steve Jobs famous quotes that have inspired me and I hope you will be inspired by them too:

1. ”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.”

2. “To turn really interesting ideas and fledgling technologies into a company that can continue to innovate for years, it requires a lot of disciplines.”

3. “I want to put a ding in the universe.”

4. ”Do you want to spend the rest of your life selling sugared water or do you want a chance to change the world?”

5. “People think focus means saying yes to the thing you’ve got to focus on. But that’s not what it means at all. It means saying no to the hundred other good ideas that there are. You have to pick carefully.”

6. “Design is not just what it looks like and feels like. Design is how it works.”

7. ‎”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.”

8. ”Innovation distinguishes between a leader and a follower.”

9. “Be a yardstick of quality. Some people aren’t used to an environment where excellence is expected.”

10. “I’m the only person I know that’s lost a quarter of a billion dollars in one year…. It’s very character-building.”

11. “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.”

12. “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.”

13. “We don’t get a chance to do that many things, and every one should be really excellent. Because this is our life. Life is brief, and then you die, you know? And we’ve all chosen to do this with our lives. So it better be damn good. It better be worth it.”

14. “Remembering that you are going to die is the best way I know to avoid the trap of thinking you have something to lose.”

15. “No one wants to die. Even people who want to go to heaven don’t want to die to get there. And yet death is the destination we all share. No one has ever escaped it. And that is as it should be, because Death is very likely the single best invention in Life. It is Life’s change agent. It clears out the old to make way for the new. Right now the new is you, but someday not too long from now, you will gradually become the old and be cleared away. Sorry to be so dramatic, but it is quite true.”

16. Stay hungry… stay foolish.”

17. ”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.”

18. ”That’s been one of my mantras – focus and simplicity. 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.”

19. ”I’m convinced that about half of what separates the successful entrepreneurs from the non-successful ones is pure perseverance.”

Do give a comment if you really do appreciate what Steve Jobs had done for you or have changed your mindset of the world. Cheers

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I have been listening to Tony Robbins‘s audio books for quite some time and have been hearing about this great man named John Wooden. I did not really make any research at that time when I heard about Coach John Wooden until I saw the tweet from Tony that coach John Wooden had just passed away recently.

I went to download and listen to the power talk interview that Tony did with Coach John Wooden many years ago which Tony shared on his blog for his viewer. Coach John Wooden was a legendary UCLA basketball coach as he was not only the most successful college basketball coach in history (winning 10 out of 12 NCCA National Championships, at one point winning 88 games in a row!).

I was amazed by the interview that Tony did with Coach John Wooden and decided to share some quotes with you that I felt is meaningful for anyone who is on the journey to success too.

Coach John Wooden Quotes:

- Success comes from knowing that you did your best to become the best that you are capable of becoming.

- Success is never final, failure is never fatal. It’s courage that counts.

- Don’t let what you cannot do interfere with what you can do.

- Failure is not fatal but failure to change might be.

- It’s the little details that are vital. Little things make big things happen.

- What you are as a person is far more important that what you are as a basketball player.

- You can’t live a perfect day without doing something for someone who will never be able to repay you.

- Talent is God given. Be humble. Fame is man-given. Be grateful. Conceit is self-given. Be careful.

- Be more concerned with your character than your reputation, because your character is what you really are, while your reputation is merely what others think you are.

- Never mistake activity for achievement.

- Don’t measure yourself by what you have accomplished, but by what you should have accomplished with your ability.

- Consider the rights of others before your own feelings, and the feelings of others before your own rights.

- If you don’t have time to do it right, when will you have time to do it over?

- If you’re not making mistakes, then you’re not doing anything. I’m positive that a doer makes mistakes.

- Winning takes talent, to repeat takes character.

Here’s a video sharing on how lovely Coach John Wooden was:

Recently, I have managed to find Tony Robbins Biography through a blog post on another blogger’s blog called From Bottom Up and it leads me to find the video of Tony Robbins Biography on youtube. Therefore, I decided to share this great mentor in life, Tony Robbins Biography with you on this blog post.

Hope you have learned something great from Tony Robbins through this video sharing that I found on youtube.

Cheers
Javier