Thought For The Day

Great spirits have always encountered violent oppostition from mediocre minds.
- Albert Einstein -

Three Days With Steve Jobs

This is the last of three days spent getting some background on Steve Jobs, and some great quotes. I'm sure you get the message; follow your heart, don't let negative people get in your way, and above all, persistence is the key.

"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 other people's opinions drown out your own inner voice. And most important, have the courage to follow your heart and intuition. They somehow already know what you truly want to become. Everything else is secondary."
- Steve Jobs -

"Almost everything - all external expectations, all pride, all fear of embarassment 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."
- Steve Jobs -

Thought For The Day

A man's reach should exceed his grasp, or what's a heaven for?
-Robert Browning -

More Steve Jobs

In 1985, Steve jobs had a disagreement with others at Apple Computer, the business he co-founded, and actually left the company. Before long he founded another business, NeXT Computer, Inc., and purchased a second company, The Graphics Group. He changed the name of The Graphics Group to Pixar Animation, partnered with Walt Disney Studios, and produced "Toy Story", "Finding Nemo", "The Incredibles", "A Bugs' Life", and other animated films. He then sold Pixar to Disney and he's now the largest Disney stockholder and sits on the Board of Directors. In the meantime, his new business, NeXT, was actually purchased by his old business, Apple, Inc. He returned to Apple, and was appointed CEO, a position he still holds today.

"Here's to the crazy ones, the misfits, the rebels, the troublemakers, the round pegs in the square holes....... the ones who see things differently; they're not fond of rules....... you can quote them, disagree with them, glorify or vilify them, but the only thing you can't do is ignore them because they change things....... they push the human race forward, and while some may see them as the crazy ones, we see genius, because the ones who are crazy enough to think they can change the world, are the ones who do."
- Steve Jobs -

Thought For The Day

Success is the sum of small efforts, repeated day in and day out.
- Robert Collier -

Steve Jobs

Steve Jobs is one of the co-founders of Apple Computer, and arguably, along with Bill Gates, one of the most influential Amercians of the past 50 years. He and some friends built their first computer in a garage in California when they were teenagers. Nobody was interested in their invention, so they started their own company and made millions. His friends lost interest and took the money and ran, but Steve Jobs has never lost the fire. The "i phone" is his latest invention. He's such an interesting person, I'll be using his quotes about business and life for the next few days.

"So we went to Atari and said, 'Hey, we've got this amazing thing, even built with some of your parts, and what do you think about funding us? Or we'll give it to you. We just want to do it. Pay our salary, we'll come work for you.' And they said no. So then we went to Hewlett-Packard, and they said, 'Hey, we don't need you, you haven't got through college yet."

Thought For The Day

Young people are in a condition like permanent intoxication, because youth is sweet and they are growing.
- Aristotle -