Steve Jobs不但是創立蘋果公司的成功企業家，更曾經說過無數經典的至理名言，當中有部分非常有意思，內容包括了他對失敗的看法，自律的重要性，對人生的感悟，他的創新思維及哲學的確值得我們細味。

 

 

 

 

01

Innovation distinguishes between a leader and a follower.
領袖和跟風者的區別就在於創新。

 

02

Stay hungry, stay foolish.
求知若飢，虛心若愚。

 

03

Design is not just what it looks like. Design is how it works.
設計不只是外形。設計是怎樣令它運作。

 

04

Do you want to spend the rest of your life selling sugared water or do you want a chance to change the world?
你想一輩子賣糖水抑或要一個改變世界的機會？

 

05

Your time is limited, so don’t waste it living someone else’s life.
你的時間有限，不要浪費時間活在別人的生活中。

 

06

This is not a one-man show.
這不是個人騷。

 

07

Your work is going to fill a large part of your life, and the only way to be truly satisfied is to do what you believe is great work.
成就一番偉業的唯一途徑就是熱愛自己的事業。

 

08

I’m the only person I know that’s lost a quarter of a billion dollars in one year… It’s very character-building.
我所知我是唯一一個在一年中失去2.5億美元的人……這對我的性格成長很有幫助。

 

09

If today were the last day of my life, would I want to do what I am about to do today?
如果今天是我生命中最後一天，我還會想做今天要做的事嗎？

 

10

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.
沒有人想死。即使想上天堂，也想活著上去。但死亡仍是我們共同的終點。

 

11

We think basically you watch television to turn your brain off, and you work on your computer when you want to turn your brain on.
我們認為看電視的時候，人的大腦基本停止工作，打開電腦的時候，大腦才開始運轉。

 

12

I’ll always stay connected with Apple. I Hope that throughout my life I’ll sort of have the thread of my life and the thread of Apple weave in and out of each other, like the tapestry.
我一直與蘋果聯繫著，希望我一生的生活與蘋果的發展交織在一起，就像掛氈一樣。

 

13

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.
對我來說，成為墳墓中最有錢的人毫無意義…… 晚上睡覺時能說我們做過很棒的事才重要。

 

14

And the only way to do great work is to love what you do.
做一件偉大工作的唯一方法就是愛你所做的事情。

 

15

I’m convinced that the only thing that kept me going was that I loved what I did.
我確信令我能一直走下去的唯一東西，是我愛我所做的事情。

 

16

You can’t connect the dots looking forward; you can only connect them looking backwards.
你無法預先把點點滴滴串連起來；只有在未來回顧時，你才會明白那些點點滴滴是如何串在一起。

 

17

When you first start off trying to solve a problem, the first solutions you come up with are very complex, and most people stop there. But if you keep going, and live with the problem and peel more layers of the onion off, you can often times arrive at some very elegant and simple solutions.
當你開始嘗試解決一個問題，解決方法往往是非常複雜，而大多數人都在那裡停下來。但如果你堅持下去，和問題一同生活，及像剝洋蔥般一層一層的拆解，你通常最後能夠得到一個優秀而簡單的答案。

 

18

Have the courage to follow to your heart and intuition. They somehow already know what you truly want to become.
人類需要擁有追隨自己內心與直覺的勇氣，你的內心與直覺多少已經知道你真正想要成為甚麼樣的人。

 

19

We’re just enthusiastic about what we do.
我們只是對所做的事情充滿熱忱。