“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.”

Jobs met Apple co-founder Steve Wozniak. Steve went to Reed College, then dropped out after one semester. In 1974 he returned to Silicon Valley, where he and Wozniak began to change history.

“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.”

24 April 1984: Steve Jobs, chairman of Apple Computers, John Sculley, president and CEO, and Steve Wozniak, co-founder, unveil the new Apple IIc computer in San Francisco

“When you first start off trying to solve a problem, the first solutions you come up with are very complex, and most people stop there. But if you keep going, and live with the problem and peel more layers of the onion off, you can often times arrive at some very elegant and simple solutions”

The Ultimate Businessman Look - After the biggest stock flotation made the two Steves super-rich, they were now bonafide businessmen.

“I’ll always stay connected with Apple. I hope that throughout my life I’ll sort of have the thread of my life and the thread of Apple weave in and out of each other, like a tapestry. There may be a few years when I’m not there, but I’ll always come back”

Steve Job made apple what it is today

“A lot of times, people don’t know what they want until you show it to them.”

1984: Jobs with his rival Bill Gates (right), co-founder of Microsoft, during an interview in New York

“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.”

As time marched on, the moustache made a comeback

“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 … Stay hungry, Stay foolish.”

After being ousted from the company he founded in 1985, Jobs went on to start another computer firm, NeXT.

“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.”

Back from the wilderness: Reinstated as the boss of Apple, Jobs 2.0 (shown here in 1998) emerged from hibernation with woodsman beard and hamster cheeks.

“We’re not going to be the first to this party, but we’re going to be the best.”

“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.”

7 September 2005: Jobs introduces the iPod nano, launched along with the fifth generation iPod that was the first to display video

“[Y]ou 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.”

The veteran: With Apple's success secured, Jobs has now adopted what can only be described as a war veteran look.

“I read a study that measured the efficiency of locomotion for various species on the planet. The condor used the least energy to move a kilometer. Humans came in with a rather unimpressive showing about a third of the way down the list….That didn’t look so good, but then someone at Scientific American had the insight to test the efficiency of lomotion for a man on a bicycle and a man on a bicycle blew the condor away.

That’s what a computer is to me: the computer is the most remarkable tool that we’ve ever come up with. It’s the equivalent of a bicycle for our minds.”

27 January 2010: Jobs holds the Apple iPad at its San Francisco launch

October 5 2011: An iPad 2 showing Apple's homepage tribute to Steve Jobs

“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.”

Chinese exchange students from De Anza College use candles to create the Apple logo at a makeshift memorial for Steve Jobs at the Apple headquarters in Cupertino, California on October 5, 2011.

A woman touches an iPhone to light a candle app during a vigil for Steve Jobs at an Apple Store in the Ginza shopping district in Tokyo on October 6, 2011.

“Steve’s brilliance, passion and energy were the source of countless innovations that enrich and improve all of our lives. The world is immeasurably better because of Steve,” said a statement from by Apple’s board of directors. Our hearts go out to them and to all who were touched by his extraordinary gifts.”

So many people drew courage from Steve and related to his life story: adoptees, college drop-outs, struggling entrepreneurs, ousted business leaders figuring out how to make a difference in the world, and people fighting debilitating illness.

He inspired with his direct message “Your time is limited, so don’t waste it living someone else’s life…have the courage to follow your heart and intuition.” And yet, despite all his success – he never forgot what was really important in life and was a much loved family man.

A visionary and creative genius, he changed millions of lives for the better.

Thank you Steve Jobs