Love & Passion Quote by Steve Jobs

Jobs frames legacy as a nightly audit, not a posthumous ranking. The cemetery line is a deliberately blunt image: it punctures the scoreboard logic of capitalism with a punchline that lands because it’s so obviously true. Wealth can’t be spent where you’re headed. By choosing that setting, he makes money look faintly childish - like hoarding points in a game that ends the same for everyone.

The second sentence shifts from public status to private ritual. “Going to bed at night” shrinks the horizon from shareholders and headlines to a single, repeatable moment of conscience. It’s also a CEO’s version of the artist’s question: did we make something that earned its existence? “We’ve done something wonderful” keeps the focus on creation rather than consumption, and it smuggles in a team ethic (even from a famously demanding leader) because “we” sounds nobler than “I” while still keeping him at the helm.

Context matters: Jobs is selling a philosophy of work that doubles as a brand myth. Apple’s pitch has always been moralized aesthetics - products as statements, not appliances. This quote reinforces that: the good life is defined by making “wonderful” things, not accumulating. The subtext is both inspirational and self-exonerating. If the measure is wonder, then ruthless focus, bruised egos, and massive profit become acceptable collateral, recast as the cost of building something that outlives you. It’s aspiration with a protective sheen: a way to make ambition sound like virtue.