Steve Jobs Day Quotes: 10 Inspirational Sayings From Late Apple Co-Founder

Monday is Steve Jobs Day, a day marked to remember the late Apple co-founder. Jobs died on Oct . 5, 2011, following a long battle with pancreatic cancer. He was buried two days later at a small private funeral. The same year, California Gov. Jerry Brown declared On Oct. 16 as Steve Jobs Day.

Here are some of the inspirational sayings by Jobs, courtesy Brainy Quotes.

1. "Sometimes when you innovate, you make mistakes. It is best to admit them quickly, and get on with improving your other innovations." - Wall Street Journal, 1993.

2. "Your time is limited, so don't waste it living someone else's life. Don't be trapped by dogma - which is living with the results of other people's thinking. Don't let the noise of others' opinions drown out your own inner voice. And most important, have the courage to follow your heart and intuition."

3. "You can’t connect the dots looking forward; you can only connect them looking backward. So you have to trust that the dots will somehow connect in your future. You have to trust in something — your gut, destiny, life, karma, whatever. This approach has never let me down, and it has made all the difference in my life.”- Stanford University commencement speech 2005.

4. "That's been one of my mantras - focus and simplicity. Simple can be harder than complex: You have to work hard to get your thinking clean to make it simple. But it's worth it in the end because once you get there, you can move mountains."

5. "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."

6. "My model for business is the Beatles. They were four guys who kept each other's kind of negative tendencies in check. They balanced each other, and the total was greater than the sum of the parts. That's how I see business: Great things in business are never done by one person. They're done by a team of people."

7. "I believe life is an intelligent thing: that things aren't random."

8. "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."

9. "If you haven't found it yet, keep looking. Don't settle. As with all matters of the heart, you'll know when you find it. And, like any great relationship, it just gets better and better as the years roll on."

10. "It's not the tools that you have faith in - tools are just tools. They work, or they don't work. It's people you have faith in or not. Yeah, sure, I'm still optimistic I mean, I get pessimistic sometimes but not for long."