You can’t just ask customers what they want and then try to give that to them. By the time you get it built, they’ll want something new.
You can’t just ask customers what they want and then try to give that to them. By the time you get it built, they’ll want something new.

Similar Steve Jobs quotes:
Other Entrepreneurship :
- Start with the customer and work backward
- The most powerful productivity tool ever invented is simply the word No.
- Where there is purpose, money flows!
- Make it happen, or it won’t.
- You don´t have to win the game, play until the others get tired.
- Striving for success without hard work is like trying to harvest where you haven’t planted.
- I discovered that the best innovation is sometimes the company, the way you organize a company.
- If there was a way that I could not eat, so I could work more, I would not eat. I wish there was a way to get nutrients without sitting down for a meal.
- Ideas are easy. Implementation is hard.
- Entrepreneurship is neither a science nor an art. It is a practice.
- If you’re trying to create a company, it’s like baking a cake. You have to have all the ingredients in the right proportion.
- You have to make your own chances.
- Doing, not learning to do, is the essence of entrepreneurship.
- 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.
- Strive not to be a success, but rather to be of value.
- A ship in the harbor is safe, but that is not what ships are built for.
- A disadvantage is often a seed of an advantage.
- I’m convinced that about half of what separates successful entrepreneurs from the nonsuccessful ones is pure perseverance.
- Uncovering the right problem is half the solution.
- Entrepreneurship is the real test of conviction.