I haven't personally gotten around to reading the Steve Jobs biography yet, but I did happen to stumble upon the most highlighted quotes by Amazon Kindle users. Which, by the way, is a pretty insightful resource you can use for just about any book. Check out the top 9 most-highlighted quotes after the jump — maybe one of these could go on your inspiration board.
The most highlighted quotes from "Steve Jobs" by Walter Isaacson on the Amazon Kindle:
9. 1607 Kindle User highlights
"Apple's design mantra would remain the one featured on its first brochure: 'Simplicity is the ultimate sophistication.'"
8. 1759 Kindle User highlights
"It was important, his father said, to craft the backs of cabinets and fences properly, even though they were hidden. 'He loved doing things right. He even cared about the look of the parts you couldn't see'"
7. 2004 Kindle User highlights
"The juice goes out of Christianity when it becomes too based on faith rather than on living like Jesus or seeing the world as Jesus saw it," he told me. "I think different religions are different doors to the same house. Sometimes I think the house exists, and sometimes I don't. It's the great mystery."
6. 2412 Kindle User highlights
"There falls a shadow, as T.S. Eliot noted, between the conception and the creation. In the annals of innovation, new ideas are only part of the equation. Execution is just as important."
5. 2598 Kindle User highlights
"The best way to predict the future is to invent it" and "People who are serious about software should make their own hardware."
4. 2758 Kindle User highlights
"People who know what they're talking about don't need Powerpoint."
3. 2933 Kindle User highlights
"He emphasized that you should never start a company with the goal of getting rich. Your goal should be making something you believe in and making a company that will last"
2. 3056 Kindle User highlights
"Here's to the crazy ones. The misfits. The rebels. The troublemakers. The round pegs in the square holes. The ones who see things differently. They're not fond of rules. And they have no respect for the status quo. You can quote them, disagree with them, glorify or vilify them. About the only thing you can't do is ignore them. Because they change things. They push the human race forward. And while some may see them as the crazy ones, we see genius. Because the people who are crazy enough to think they can change the world are the ones who do."
1. 3886 Kindle User highlights
"Pretend to be completely in control and people will assume that you are."
Interested in more good quotes? Go here to see the most highlighted passages of all time by Kindle users — hope you like The Hunger Games. ;)
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Got to have "Love" and "enjoy" in running a company.
Like what Obama said, Jobs “made the information revolution not only accessible, but creative and fun.”
Get rich quick does not happen unless you win the lottery. Hard work and lots of hours. Reckonthatis.com
I think it is awesome that someone is tracking my highlighted comments.
I like this one a lot, "There falls a shadow, as T.S. Eliot noted, between the conception and the creation. In the annals of innovation, new ideas are only part of the equation. Execution is just as important."
It feels very relevant to my career right now!
A very fitting memorial to the guy who claimed nobody reads anymore.
Jobs certainly wasn't the first person to say that the best way to predict the future is to invent it.
That's been credited to many people, including Henry Ford.
I think it's really creepy that Amazon is spying on it's customers in this way. Yet another reason to stick with physical books.
Wow AT that's some lightning fast censorship!
The quote that impacts my life the most:
"Your work is going to take up a large part of your life and the only way to be satisfied is to do great work. And the only way to do great work is to love what you do."
There aren't very many 'concrete truths' out there, as far as I can tell. This is one of the elusive few.
I agree that it's disturbing that Amazon tracks these sorts of things. And, my goodness, these are some extremely average quotes.
If you own a Kindle and don't want to have your highlights aggregated, you don't have to include them in the public tallies; in fact, the default setting is private and you have to take steps to share each highlight, so there's no spying or subterfuge on the part of Amazon.
More about this topic can be found here: http://www.amazon.com/gp/help/customer/display.html/ref=help_search_1-2?ie=UTF8&nodeId=110748011&qid=1339513865&sr=1-2
Steve Jobs changed the entire world with his visionary outset and revamping of wireless media and communications. He’ll be a name which rings out through history for evolving the way we live, share and communicate. I was compelled to create a portrait of him, now In Memoriam on my artist’s blog at http://dregstudiosart.blogspot.com/2011/08/end-of-era-steve-jobs.html
Just thought it was funny that this was a Steve Jobs post about Kindle not iPad. Apple even taking over its competitor. Lol