Success Quote by Steve Jobs

Jobs reaches for slapstick violence because it matches how failure feels when you’re ambitious and publicly visible: not a gentle lesson, a blunt-force impact. The “brick” is deliberately unromantic. It’s the anti-inspiration image, a way of telling high-achievers to stop expecting setbacks to arrive as tasteful, cinematic turning points. They arrive as humiliation, layoffs, rejection emails, investors passing, a product flopping in front of your peers. The line’s power is that it refuses to dignify the pain while still honoring it.

The subtext is Jobs’ favorite kind of reassurance: severe, almost impatient. “Don’t lose faith” isn’t a plea for optimism; it’s a directive to keep moving when your narrative collapses. Faith here isn’t religious so much as craft-based: faith in your taste, your capacity to iterate, your ability to rebuild identity after being told you’re washed. Coming from Jobs, that carries the shadow of his own mythos - especially his ousting from Apple and the long detour through NeXT and Pixar before returning as the visionary redeemer. The brick is personal history repackaged as portable advice.

There’s also a cultural tell: Silicon Valley’s preference for pain with a purpose. Jobs converts trauma into fuel, but he doesn’t pretend the fuel is clean. He’s warning you that the work will hurt and daring you to keep your conviction anyway - not because the world is fair, but because quitting would make the brick the last word.