Although Steve Jobs has passed, he has left with us his legacy and many profound insights. It’s clear that he was a smart, drivenman who took life by the horns. But it’s not only his accomplishments that will leave a lasting impression on the world. Jobs’ belief in himself and his positive, confident outlook on life made his success possible. He was more than an innovator — he was also a husband, a father, and a simple man who took action in the face of an ever changing world. Here are 10 of Jobs’ most memorable insights:

1. “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.”

2. “Your time is limited, so don’t waste it living someone else’s life… Stay hungry. Stay foolish.”

3. “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.”

4. “You can’t just ask the customers what they want and then try to give that to them. By the time you get it built, they’ll want something new.”

5. “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.”

6. “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. “It comes from saying no to 1,000 things to make sure we don’t get on the wrong track or try to do too much. We’re always thinking about new markets we could enter, but it’s only by saying no that you can concentrate on the things that are really important.”

8. “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.”

9. “It’s more fun to be a pirate than to join the navy.”

10. “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.”

To hear what Jobs had to say to the 2005 graduates of Stamford University and learn more about his background, check out this blog by Nick Healy.