"Stay hungry. Stay foolish"

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iHave to admit that aside from the very general, I knew very little about Steve Jobs.  Yes, I knew he was an innovator, a visionary, co-founder of Apple and, most recently, a warrior of pancreatic cancer but, what I didn’t know was what made him tick.  Why didn’t he just give up when he failed and stop out of contentment when he succeeded?  Now, the day after his death, I’m learning and I have to say that I’m truly inspired.  His words really speak to me personally and, remind me that every day is an opportunity and should be embraced as if it were you last. iLive!

Here are some of my favorite Steve Jobs quotes, would love to hear yours.

1. "Remembering that I'll be dead soon is the most important tool I've ever encountered to help me make the big choices in life. Because almost everything -- all external expectations, all pride, all fear of embarrassment or failure - these things just fall away in the face of death, leaving only what is truly important. Remembering that you are going to die is the best way I know to avoid the trap of thinking you have something to lose. You are already naked. There is no reason not to follow your heart. ... Stay hungry. Stay foolish." "Death is very likely the single best invention of Life. It is Life's change agent. It clears out the old to make way for the new."

2. “Your work is going to fill a large part of your life, and the only way to be truly satisfied is to do what you believe is great work. And the only way to do great work is to love what you do. 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. So keep looking until you find it. Don’t settle.”

3. "Picasso had a saying: 'Good artists copy, great artists steal.' We have always been shameless about stealing great ideas...I think part of what made the Macintosh great was that the people working on it were musicians, poets, artists, zoologists and historians who also happened to be the best computer scientists in the world."

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. “I think if you do something and it turns out pretty good, then you should go do something else wonderful, not dwell on it for too long. Just figure out what’s next.”

6. "You can't connect the dots looking forward; you can only connect them looking backwards. 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."

7. "Have the courage to follow your heart and intuition. They somehow already know what you truly want to become."

8. "It's really hard to design products by focus groups. A lot of times, people don't know what they want until you show it to them."

9. “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.”

10."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."

"We're here to put a dent in the universe" and that he did!