Steve Jobs was born on February 4, 1955 in San Francisco, California. He was adopted by a lawyer named Paul Jobs because his real mother wanted a baby girl.
Few years later, Steve Jobs went to college but decided to drop out because it was too expensive for him to support himself.
Steve said that he didn’t have a dorm room, so he slept on the floor in friends’ room. He returned coke bottles for 5 cents deposits to buy food. And he would walk 7 miles across town every Sunday night just to get a good meal a week at the Hare Krishna temple.
At the age of 20, he and his friend Wozniak started a company in a garage on April 1, 1976. Later, the amazing duo started the Apple I at the Computer Club in California, but before that, in order to buy 50 machines the duo need to sell first their most expensive possessions including Jobs ‘Volkswagen.
Few years later, Steve Jobs went to college but decided to drop out because it was too expensive for him to support himself.
Steve said that he didn’t have a dorm room, so he slept on the floor in friends’ room. He returned coke bottles for 5 cents deposits to buy food. And he would walk 7 miles across town every Sunday night just to get a good meal a week at the Hare Krishna temple.
At the age of 20, he and his friend Wozniak started a company in a garage on April 1, 1976. Later, the amazing duo started the Apple I at the Computer Club in California, but before that, in order to buy 50 machines the duo need to sell first their most expensive possessions including Jobs ‘Volkswagen.
Apple was named in the memory of a happy summer he had spent as an orchard worker in Oregon.
However, in 1982, Apples sales sagged because of competition from IBM. Not wanting to dwell on these failures, they worked on a new machine called Macintosh. By 1986 the Mac, was a huge success, Apple computer had grown into more than 2 billion dollar company with over 4000 employees.
At the age of 30, however, was fired from the company he co-founded with Wozniak. He left the Apple after losing a battle over control with the Company CEO John Sculley.
Jobs said ,
“You’ve probably had somebody punch you in the stomach and it knocks the wind out you and you cannot breathe. The harder you try to breathe, the more you cannot breathe. And you know that the only thing you can do is just relax so you can start breathing again.”
‘I didn’t see it then, but it turned out that getting fired from Apple was the best thing that could have ever happened to me. The heaviness of being successful was replaced by the lightness of being a beginner again, less sure about everything. It freed me to enter one of the most creative periods of my life.’
After five years, Steve Jobs started two new companies, NeXTstep and Pixar.
In December 1996, As apple was under immense pressure from rival Microsoft, Jobs convinces Apple to buy NeXT and make its software the foundation of the next generation Mac-OS. Steve Jobs was named Apples interim CEO in 1997.
Under his leadership, Apple returned to a more profitable company and introduced innovation such as the iPod.
However, in 1982, Apples sales sagged because of competition from IBM. Not wanting to dwell on these failures, they worked on a new machine called Macintosh. By 1986 the Mac, was a huge success, Apple computer had grown into more than 2 billion dollar company with over 4000 employees.
At the age of 30, however, was fired from the company he co-founded with Wozniak. He left the Apple after losing a battle over control with the Company CEO John Sculley.
Jobs said ,
“You’ve probably had somebody punch you in the stomach and it knocks the wind out you and you cannot breathe. The harder you try to breathe, the more you cannot breathe. And you know that the only thing you can do is just relax so you can start breathing again.”
‘I didn’t see it then, but it turned out that getting fired from Apple was the best thing that could have ever happened to me. The heaviness of being successful was replaced by the lightness of being a beginner again, less sure about everything. It freed me to enter one of the most creative periods of my life.’
After five years, Steve Jobs started two new companies, NeXTstep and Pixar.
In December 1996, As apple was under immense pressure from rival Microsoft, Jobs convinces Apple to buy NeXT and make its software the foundation of the next generation Mac-OS. Steve Jobs was named Apples interim CEO in 1997.
Under his leadership, Apple returned to a more profitable company and introduced innovation such as the iPod.
Steve Jobs Quotes and Advices
“There is no reason not to follow your heart.”
“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 that they can change the world, are the ones who do.”
“It’s really hard to design products by focus groups. A lot of times, people don’t know what they want until you show it to them.”
“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’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.”
“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.”
“Remembering that I’ll be dead soon is the most important tool I’ve ever encountered to help me make the big choices in life.
"All external expectations, all pride, all fear of embarrassment 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."
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