Steve Jobs håller plats 82 på TIME:s lista över årets 100 mest inflytelserika personer. Med på The TIME 100 finns även Steve Ballmer och Mark Zuckerberg.
”Jobs may be a celebrity CEO, but he doesn’t jump out of airplanes or traipse around Africa with bundles of cash. He is always in character and always on message, so much so that when late-night TV parodies him, he’s invariably rolling out some new iProduct . Jobs gets called mercurial, egomaniacal, a micromanager. If that sounds a little like a CEO doing his job, maybe that’s because he is—and a mighty fine one.”