No one wants to die. Even people who want to go to heaven don’t want to die to get there

Remembering that you are going to die is the best way I know to avoid the trap of thinking you have something to lose. You are already naked.

Almost everything, all external expectations, all pride, all fear of embarrassment or failure, these things just fall away in the face of death, leaving only what is truly important.

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.

Don’t let the noise of other’s opinions drown out your own inner voice.

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.

And most important, have the courage to follow your heart and intuition. They somehow already know what you truly want to become. Everything else is secondary.

It’s more fun to be a pirate than to join the Navy.

Now, as you graduate to begin anew, I wish that for you, ‘Stay hungry, stay foolish’.

People judge you on your performance, so focus on the outcome. Be a yardstick of quality. Some people aren’t used to an environment where excellence is expected.

You have to trust in something, your gut, destiny, life, karma, whatever.

We were really working fourteen-to-eighteen-hour days, seven days a week. For like, two years, three years. That was our life. But we loved it, we were young, and we could do it.

People who know what they’re talking about don’t need PowerPoint

One way to remember who you are is to remember who your heroes are.

Don’t take it all too seriously. If you want to live your life in a creative way, as an artist, you have to not look back too much. You have to be willing to take whatever you’ve done and whoever you were and throw them away.

Believing that the dots will connect down the road will give you the confidence to follow your heart.

On the blue box: That was what we learned: was that us, too, we didn’t know much. We could build a little thing that could control a giant thing and that was an incredible lesson.

We are very careful about what features we add because we can’t take them away.

The most precious thing that we all have with us is time

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

I don’t care about being right. I care about success and doing the right thing.

I always advise people – Don’t wait! Do something when you are young, when you have nothing to lose, and keep that in mind.

I always advise people – Don’t wait! Do something when you are young, when you have nothing to lose, and keep that in mind.

That’s why we started Apple, we said you know, we have absolutely nothing to lose. I was 20 years old at the time, Woz was 24-25, so we have nothing to lose. We have no families, no children, no houses. Woz had an old car. I had a Volkswagen van, I mean, all we were going to lose is our cars and the shirts off our back.