Happy Birthday Steve!!!

Had my favorite silicon valley entrepreneur been alive today, it would have been his 57th birthday!

Here are some of the inspiring quotes to remember on his birthday:

1. "My favorite things in life don't cost any money. It's really clear that the most precious resource we all have is time."

2. "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."

3. "Creativity is just connecting things. When you ask creative people how they did something, they feel a little guilty because they didn't really do it, they just saw something. It seemed obvious to them after a while. That's because they were able to connect experiences they've had and synthesize new things."

4."When you’re a carpenter making a beautiful chest of drawers, you’re not going to use a piece of plywood on the back, even though it faces the wall and nobody will ever see it. You’ll know it’s there, so you’re going to use a beautiful piece of wood on the back. For you to sleep well at night, the aesthetic, the quality, has to be carried all the way through."

5. "But innovation comes from people meeting up in the hallways or calling each other at 10:30 at night with a new idea, or because they realized something that shoots holes in how we've been thinking about a problem."

6. "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."

7. "Innovation distinguishes between a leader and a follower."

8. "It’s more fun to be a pirate than to join the navy."

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

10. "Quality is more important than quantity. One home run is much better than two doubles."

11. "I’m convinced that about half of what separates the successful entrepreneurs from the non-successful ones is pure perseverance."

12. "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."

13. "For the past 33 years, I have looked in the mirror every morning and asked myself: 'If today were the last day of my life, would I want to do what I am about to do today?' And whenever the answer has been 'No' for too many days in a row, I know I need to change something."

14. "Sometimes life hits you in the head with a brick. Don't lose faith."

15. "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."