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Steve Wozniak – Coaching Quotes and Advice

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Career Advice Quotes by Steve Wozniak

“I learned not to worry so much about the outcome, but to concentrate on the step I was on and to try to do it as perfectly as I could when I was doing it.”

“If you love what you do and are willing to do what it takes, it’s within your reach.”

“The human is more important than technology. Make things more human.”

“Creative things have to sell to get acknowledged.”

“Imagination is something you do alone.”

“Not everything in life can go perfectly according to plan.”

“To give of yourself is much more important than giving a gift you can buy.”

“Two attributes that have made me successful are the drive to think outside of the box and understanding the user.”

“My whole life had been designing computers I could never build.”

– Steve Wozniak

Business Advice Quotes by Steve Wozniak

“Wherever smart people work, doors are unlocked.”

“Artists work best alone. Work alone.”

“Cloud computing is growing, especially as we are all used to having our mobile devices link us to data wherever we are.”

“A lot of hacking is playing with other people, you know, getting them to do strange things.”

“You can make something big when young that will carry you through life. Look at all the big startups like Microsoft, Apple, Google, Facebook, Twitter, etc. They were all started by very young people who stumbled on something of unseen value. You’ll know it when you hit a home run.”

“Don’t worry that you can’t seem to come up with sure billion-dollar winners at first. Just do projects for yourself for fun. You’ll get better and better.”

“It’s a lot easier to think of an app and wite it than it is to convince people to want it, publicity is crucially important. Marketing is the most important thing.”

“The best things that capture your imagination are ones you hadn’t thought of before and that aren’t talked about in the news all the time.”

“If we build these devices to take care of everything for us, eventually they’ll think faster than us and they’ll get rid of the slow humans to run companies more efficiently.”

“All the best things that I did come from not having money and not having done it before.”

– Steve Wozniak

Leadership and Management Advice Quotes by Steve Wozniak

“Steve Jobs didn’t really set the direction of my Apple I and Apple II designs but he did the more important part of turning them into a product that would change the world. I don’t deny that.”

“Some great people are leaders and others are more lucky, in the right place at the right time. I’d put myself in the latter category. But I’d never call myself a normal designer of anything.”

“Great culture, care for clients, kind nature, fun team.”

“I never lie, even to this day. Not even a little.”

“Try to think of new ways to solve old problems. Very often we look at something we have and say, “I could make it better.’ That’s innovation.”

“I acquired a central ability that was to help me through my entire career: patience. “

“I saw lots of music devices. I loved playing with music devices. And like most of the world, I thought of a music device as a music device. Steve Jobs tends to look beyond that, and he doesn’t see a music device as having any importance at all, he sees music itself to a person as a being the important thing.”

“I have always respected education, which is why I actually went back secretly and taught school for eight years.”

– Steve Wozniak

Steve Wozniak Biography

Steve Wozniak (born 1950) is a technology entrepreneur. In 1976 he co-founded Apple Inc. with Steve Jobs. During his time in Apple, Steve Wozniak became widely recognized as a prominent pioneer of the personal computer revolution in the 1970s and 1980s.

In 1975, Wozniak developed the Apple I computer, which launched Apple. He primarily designed the Apple II in 1977, known as one of the first highly successful mass-produced microcomputers. Wozniak also had a significant influence over the initial development of the original Apple Macintosh concepts from 1979 to 1981. Jobs took over the project following Wozniak’s brief departure from the company due to a traumatic accident.

Steve Wozniak left Apple in 1985 and founded CL 9 and created the first programmable universal remote, released in 1987. Wozniak then pursued several other businesses and philanthropic ventures throughout his career, focusing mainly on technology in K–12 schools.

Since 2019, Wozniak has become an employee of Apple in a ceremonial capacity.

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“Teachers started recognizing me and praising me for being smart in science and that made me want to be even smarter in science!”

– Steve Wozniak

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“Our first computers were born not out of greed or ego, but in the revolutionary spirit of helping common people rise above the most powerful institutions.”

– Steve Wozniak

Steve Wozniak Inspirational Quotes

“Never trust a computer you can’t throw out a window.”

“No matter how fast the computer, you still need a human to solve a problem.”

“The easier it is to do something, the harder it is to change the way you do it.”

“I’m going to give some advice that might be hard to take; work alone, not on a committee, not on a team.”

“I want the entire smartphone, the entire Internet, on my wrist.”

“I just believe that the way that young people’s minds develop is fascinating.”

“I hope you’re as lucky as I am. The world needs inventors–great ones.”

“In the end, I hope there’s a little note somewhere that says I designed a good computer.”

Most inventors and engineers I’ve met are like me. They’re shy and they live in their heads. The very best of them are artists. And artists work best alone…

“What Steve Jobs and I did, and at the same time Bill Gates and Paul Allen did – we had no savings accounts, no friends that could loan us money, but we had ideas, and I wanted all my life to be part of a revolution.”

– Steve Wozniak

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“My goal wasn’t to make a ton of money. It was to build good computers.”

– Steve Wozniak
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