What we want to do is make a leapfrog product that is way smarter than any mobile device has ever been, and super-easy to use. This is what iPhone is. OK? So, we're going to reinvent the phone.

I am a slow walker, but I never walk back.

Fear is a double-edged weapon: it can force you to do something or prevent you from doing something.

I have a great respect for incremental improvement, and I've done that sort of thing in my life, but I've always been attracted to the more revolutionary changes. I don't know why. Because they're harder. They're much more stressful emotionally. And you usually go through a period where everybody tells you that you've completely failed.

Plato is dear to me, but dearer still is truth.

Courage is what it takes to stand up and speak; courage is also what it takes to sit down and listen. 

Life is like riding a bicycle. To keep your balance, you must keep moving.

If you have a particular faith or religion, that is good. But you can survive without it.

We make a living by what we get, but we make a life by what we give. 

I mean, you have to be able - you have to have made the commitment within yourself to do whatever it takes to get the job done and to try to inspire other people to do it, because obviously the first rule is you can't do it by yourself.

It took me a long time to realize that you have to have a bit of an interlanguage with actress. You have to give them something that they can act with.

There was a time when we could find jokers only in circus. Now we can find them everywhere.