Steve Jobs

Shawn Shannon

Professor Fleury-Lawson

Business and Society

17 October 2011

Most people associate Steve Jobs with just Apple. I know I did until he recently passed and I saw a few videos on his life. Yeah he was known for his work with Apple but there was a lot more behind him than people knew and he did do many other things for technology.

Steve didn’t experience the same childhood that most kids have. His biological parents gave him up for adoption after his birth because they wanted their son to be raised by two people who graduated from college. In a crazy turn of events after the birth, they were able to find a family to raise their son. But when Steve’s biological parents found out that the adoption mother didn’t graduate college, and the father didn’t graduate high school they didn’t want them to raise their son. The adoption parents gave their word that they would make sure that Steve graduated from college, so they signed the final papers. They did everything in their power to make sure that Steve would go to college. Well Steve went to college but he didn’t enjoy it. After finding his passion in a calligraphy class, Steve dropped out because he felt that college was a waste of money for his situation. Doing this enabled Steve to take classes he enjoyed and to become to innovate man he was.

After he dropped out Steve and some friends worked on creating what we know today as Apple. After a few years this idea turned into a billion dollar corporation. But Steve Jobs wasn’t in it for the money, he was in it for the people and their needs. “he found a way to make things that we didn’t know were possible, simple.” The things he created helped retail benefit. An example if an IPod or a IPad. They are products that can be used for almost anything and just come in one small affordable product. After a disagreement Jobs was fired from Apple. This didn’t make his give up on his visions. Steve started two companies; Pixar and Next. Pixar is one of the greatest animation studios known to man. They are known for their work with Disney and all of their movies. Apple ended up buying Steve’s company “Next”, which meant Steve returned to work.

Steve Jobs died while working for Apple and creating many things we take for granted today. From a management perspective I learned that you can always go further with an idea. Steve did this by just creating more complex things overtime. If it weren’t for him we wouldn’t have, Mac computers, Ipads, IPods, IPhones, and anything else Apple made. Also my childhood wouldn’t have been the same without getting to see all of my favorite Pixar movies. Steve taught everyone that they need to follow their dreams even if that means upsetting other people or what they expect from you. He was a great man that should be a role model for all young eager entrepreneurs.

Steve Jobs "Made the Impossible Simple"

Alexandra M. Euglow
Professor Fleury-Lawson
Business and Society
13 October 2011

Steve Jobs “Made the Impossible Simple”

Steve Jobs was an important man in today’s technology. First, let’s zoom in on his life and career. Steve Jobs’ biological mother gave him up for adoption and she wanted him to go to a family were the parents were both college graduates. Last minute, the intended parents declined because they really wanted a daughter and a generous husband and wife decided to adopt him. A little while later, his biological mother found out that the mother never graduated from college and the father never graduated from high school. His biological mother would not proceed with the final steps to the adoption. The adopting parents promised her that her son would graduate from college and she took their word. The big surprise, it turns out Steve Jobs never did graduate from college. Mr. Jobs could not find the point of college; he was simply tired of wasting all his parents’ savings on something that did not mean anything to him. He dropped out of his required classes and dropped in to the classes he found interesting, which greatly impacted his success today. Steve Jobs was CEO of Apple and Pixar Animations. He and one partner started Apple in a garage, 10 years later it was a two billion dollar company. When he was 30, he was fired and it was a very public failure on his behalf. Over the next five years, he created Next and Pixar Animations. The ironic thing is, Apple ended up buying Next and Steve Jobs then returned to working for Apple. Mr. Jobs had been diagnosed with Pancreas Cancer, when they found a tumor. The Doctors told him he had three to six months to live and he should start to “prepare to die.” After a couple of tests, he found out he had a very rare, but curable form of Cancer. He had the surgery and was able to continue his life. As you can see, Steve Jobs’ life and career were very much like a roller coaster, he was up and down and up and down, but he never gave up, not once.

There is quite a bit to learn about Steve Jobs’ management lessons. He always followed his instincts and did what he thought was best for him. Mr. Jobs’ created a very large and successful business. Even though the business was such a success, he never stopped working himself, he continued to work and be a part of the company every day. Steve Jobs never just sat back and watched others do his work for him. I think this is why his employees appreciated and respected him so much. He was a great manager because he worked just as hard if not harder than his employees. Retail has greatly benefited from his innovations. I mean everyone knows about Apple, whether it be the iPod, where you can add every song you can think of and listen to hundreds of songs with just one hand. The iPhone, which literally does everything, it is a phone, a computer and an iPod all in one, the iPad and so much more. Steve Jobs had the ability to “see what we needed four or five years ahead of time.” Steve Jobs’ management and innovations will forever impact our society.

Lastly, the lessons we learned from Steve Jobs are unforgettable. There were two large lessons that I learned from Steve Jobs. The first lesson was to “do what you love.” Steve Jobs made it clear that if you do what you love and you don’t give up on it, then you will be happy. Too many people believe that in order to be happy you must be rich, that is completely false. It is not the amount of money you make that will makes you happy, but if you truly love what you do. I have known since I was a little kid that I have wanted to be a teacher. Being a teacher will not earn me as much money as other careers, but I know that is what I want to do and I will love doing it, for the rest of my life. The second big lesson that Steve Jobs has taught me was to “live every day like it is your last.” I believe this is such an important lesson because you are never guaranteed tomorrow and if you live every day to the fullest, then tomorrow is not necessarily needed, but greatly wanted. Mr. Jobs is right, you must live every day like it is you last because then you will never waste your valuable time on something worthless. You will use your time on things and people that mean the world to you. All in all, Steve Jobs has had such a great impact on everyone’s life.

Steve Jobs: Man, Myth, Legend.

Steve Job's was one of the best business men that there ever was. Job's life can be look at as almost as an inspiration story. Once born, Job's parents put him up for adoption, with good cause. Job's parents lived in poverty, and wanted him to receive a college education, even if it means being adopted. Job's went on to college, with his parents paying for his education. As school went on, he did not see a point in it and dropped out. This was in fact Job's first characteristic as being an entrepreneur. Job's says in his Stanford Commencement Speech "so I decided to drop out and trust that it would all work out O.K." and says it "was one of the best decisions i ever made". Although he did drop out of college he still attended the classes that he still wanted to, and learn the things he wanted to. Job's was also a very hard worker. Job's would sleep in his friends room due to him losing his housing rights since dropping out, he collected soda bottles everyday, just to pay for meals and walked across town to the Temple for a good meal. A class that had interested him, was the Calligraphy class. All of this helped jobs become very successful employee at Apple. When designing the first Macintosh computer, his skill with Calligraphy helped the computer seem sophisticated, beautiful typography. Although Job's did start Apple, Job's was actually fired. His co-worker that he gave the job to actually had better ideas than him, which caused Job's firing. For a few months, Jobs did not know what to do. Soon Job's missed his job and what he loved, and decided to start over. Since getting fired, Job's started Pixar, one of the best computer animation studios in existestance. Job's then got re-hired to Apple, the computer in which he started and loved. This goes to show how good of an entrepreneur Job's is. Job's was down for the count, getting fired from his own company, not knowing what to do and by that starting Pixar and Next, then getting put back into his old position at Apple. Job's took a risk, that did not insure promising outcomes, and still did it because he believed in it, and thank god he did, because my child hood would be ruined without Toy Story. Job's states after all this the only thing that kept him going, pursuing his dreams was because he loved his job, and people must find something they love and stick with it, that is the key to success. A couple years ago Job's acquired Pancreatic Cancer. Pancreatic Cancer is a very severe form of cancer, that kills most. Knowing this, Job's continued just to do what he loved, down the road figuring out that it was a rare case of the cancer, and could be cured with surgery. I strongly believe that many things can be learned from Steve Job's life. Job's never gave up no matter what was happening, because he loved what he did. I agree with him here. Giving up means to quit, and by giving up you're quiting on yourself, and my personality is not like that. Retail has strongly benefited from Job's innovations. Such technology including iPods, Macbooks, and iPhones has literally changed the world for the better. It allows consumers to use highly sophisticated technology, in a very simple way, and that's how jobs did it. Job's made it possible for the simple man to obtain such great technology, and use it with ease. Steve Job's was one of the best innovators, inventors, and entrepreneurs there ever was.

Steve Jobs

Steve Jobs

Steve Jobs will go down as arguably the greatest inventor of my lifetime. He was an innovator, an entrepreneur, and an educator. Unfortunately, I never knew much about Steve Jobs until his death. I really only knew him for his work with Apple. After watching the two videos from class I learned so much about him as a businessman and also as a person. The video that especially stuck out to me the most was the 2005 commencement speech at Stanford University. In this speech he told 3 stories that related to his career and also his personal life. The first story was about Steve's education. After high school he decided to go to a college that was very expensive and after 6 months he dropped out because he felt like he was wasting his parents money because he didn’t know what he wanted to do in life. After he dropped out he was able to sign up for classes that he was specifically interested in instead of taking mandatory classes he wasn’t interested in. Something that stuck out to me in this story was that he took a calligraphy class and says if he never took that class he would have never been able to make Apples typing fonts so amazing. The second story was about when he was fired from Apple and became a public failure. After he was fired from Apple he never gave up and started two companies: Pixar and Next. Pixar was a huge success and Next was bought by Apple, which led Steve Jobs back to working for Apple. In his third story about death, he explains how he was diagnosed with pancreatic cancer and was given 4 months to live. Fortunately, after a successful surgery he was cured. After explaining how scary this was he tells the students to live their lives to the fullest and enjoy everyday like it’s their last, because in reality it could be. I think these 3 stories answer every question asked in the assignment. His most important management lessons are told in the stories: to never give up, to find something you love and pursue it, and also in his final line of the speech “to always stay hungry and foolish” which to me means to always keep striving to be the best but also to never lose who you are. Retail has benefited incredibly from Steve Jobs because Apple has produced some of the most successful technological products in the last few decades, including: the Mac book, iPod, iPhone, and iPad. When Apple comes out with a new product everyone “needs” to have it, it’s become a huge part of American culture now. I think Steve Jobs had an incredible career and I think his successes have showed how he is as a person. He was a dreamer and a philosopher. I learned so much from his speech at Stanford and his career. Some of the main points are: to follow your dreams, never give up, and to always stay true to yourself. This relates to class because it talks about entrepreneurs and inventing which is a big part of chapter 1.

Steve Jobs

Guy DePlacido
September 27,2011
Business and Society
Professor Fleury-Lawson
Steve Jobs

I personally think that Steve Jobs is one of the smartest men that have walked earth. I took everything he has done for granted up until I saw these two videos. I knew of how successful he made Apple but I never truly understood it. The CNBC Video really shows his contribution to the world. Everyone really does take Apple products for granted and they think nothing of having them. Products such as the iPod, iPad, iPhone, etc. make life so much easier. “In Adam Smith’s view, businesspeople don’t necessarily deliberately set out to help others. They work primarily for their own prosperity and growth. Yet as people try to improve their own situation in life, Smith said, their efforts serve as an “invisible hand” that helps the economy grow and prosper through the production of needed goods, services, and ideas”(Nickels pg 33). Steve Jobs started this job to become prosperous and in the end, he helped many. Apple products have so many apps that you can download. There is basically an app to help you with almost every aspect of your life and it is really convenient. He is a brilliant person and his mind helps so many people on a daily basis. His products are so small and are capable of everything. When Jobs’ died, I was so sick of hearing about it because that is all everyone was talking about. It sounds horrible but it is true. I didn’t realize how much impact he has had on everyone’s everyday life.

There are many management lessons to be learned from Steve Jobs’ career. One management lesson that he showed us is that as a manager, you should still stay involved and actually work when you are there. Employees respect bosses who actually carry a workload. I think that is a major reason why this company is so successful. I also think what he said at the Stanford Commencement Address is a very good management lesson. He states that you should always follow your heart. You also need to trust that the dots in your life always connect going backwards so you have to trust that everything happens for a reason. “The only way to do great work is to love what you do”, this is said by Steve jobs in this Commencement Address. This is a great lesson for not only managers, but for everyone. I truly believe this because you will never put full complete effort into everything unless you put your heart into it. He has left us with many great lessons but I believe these are the top lessons.

Retail has benefitted greatly from his innovations because he has made so many great products. If you go into a room of any kind filled with a random group of people and asked them who owns any sort of Apple product, I can guarantee that more than 60% of people would say they do. Apple is one of the most widely know products on the market and the invention of all these products has completely changed retail and has expanded it greatly.

Steve Jobs

Steve Job's is possibly one of the smartest and riskiest people I know to this day. Now did I think some of his decisions he made, like dropping out of college, was a smart idea, well the answer is no. I do not necessarily agree with things like that because that is a ton of money to just throw away and the thing that gets me the most is that he is just one of those guys that was very smart but could not stick it out and yet he became one of the richest people out there. However, I have to give him credit that without a college degree, he made the best of his opportunities to become his own entrepreneur and produce a very successful company that everyone knows about and could never mistake it for something else. Now some of the lessons to be learned about management are that you have to put so much time into your company to get going, you have to do anything to make money and have to give up so much to do so. Also, how calligraphy plays a huge part on your products like how big to make words or letters and what font they should be to be appealing to the human eye. Also another lesson is to be careful on who you choose to help you out with you company and not someone you are not sure of, then get into an argument with and then get fired from you own production. Just remember that anyone can take anything away from you if you do not know what you are doing. But he did benefit from all this because now he is smarter and wiser to make the right decisions. Decision that end up making Next and Pixar which is now the most successful animation studio in the world. Every decision that he made ended up helping him in the long run, like dropping out of college or getting fired from your own company because it made him what he is today, to do what makes you happy and do not trust anyone. Steve Job’s has so many lessons to learn from to show you the right path and to not make the same wrong decision he had once made. To learn that when it comes to money that no one is you friend and they will look out for themselves before they look out for anyone else. Steve has experienced so much and his advice for us that he had once seen is “ stay hunger, stay foolish.”

Steve Jobs

Steve Jobs was the founder of the Apple. The amazing story of his career begins with what seems to be a dismal start but an illustrious finish. He gets fired from a company that he started, it seemed as if his career was ver but he was able to use that as motivation and strive to achieve something that no other person ha every done. He was able to accomplish that because he never let his setbacks hold him back. Now he was able to build an empire and was the mastermind behind Pixar, one of the best movie producing companies of this century and also founded apple one of the most popular technology providers. Almost everyone today has either an iPod, iPad, or an iPhone. I personally have an iPhone and I am able to do things on my iPhone that I could do on a computer. In the speech he performed at Stanford he expressed that he only truly understood the meaning of life when he faced death. When he realized that he only had a few months left to live he realized the true meaning of life was to live each day to the fullest and you can never say I love you to many times. This allowed him to make a greater bond between him an his family and this carried over to his work where he ran the company by the motto that if you didn’t want to wake up to come to work then I have failed you. This is what I believe allowed him to accomplishes the goals and dreams he had for his companies. Steve Jobs was a great example of determination because at no point in his career did he let his failure bring him down, instead he used it as motivation to accomplish things no one in his industry has ever done before.   

For more information on his success you can visit http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Steve_Jobs   

Steve Jobs- Carter Rouleau

Steve Jobs was a very talented individual that had a dream to make the World's best technology.  When Steve Jobs was a young man in college he decided to drop out to start his own company.  Dropping out was probably the most important choice he made.  It allowed him to start his company right away.  After a couple years, Steve Jobs got fired from his company, only to be rehired later because they realized that they needed him.  that was the best decision for their company because Steve Jobs made the company the number one technology company in the World.  After Steve Jobs came out with the ipod, iphone, and macbook computer the company's stock skyrocketed.  We can definetly learn a lot from Steve Jobs.  Steve Jobs came out with a lot of technology that we wouldn't of had without him.  He gave many company's ideas for new innovations for technology.  Even though Steve Jobs was fighting through cancer, he kept working and coming up with new items to enter the market.  This shows dedication and a true love for what he was doing.

Steve Jobs

Steve Job's life and career are obviously very impressive compared to the average person or even to a fairly successful business owner. He has contributed so much to our society and there's no way we could erase his impact on us all. Everyone knows him from Apple and don't realize that he was in charge of Pixar too. Where would we be without amazing movies like Toy Story, A Bugs Life, and The Incredibles? Even right now as I'm writing this blog I am listening to music on iTunes while charging my iPod. These devices along macbooks, iPhones, and iPads have become necessary parts of our lives. An important management lesson you can learn from Steve Jobs is leadership. The book defines leading as "creating a vision for the organization and guiding, training, coaching, and motivating others to work effectively to achieve the organization's goals and objects." He must have done a pretty good job of leading if he grew his company up starting with a few people working from his garage. He also had a vision, which the book talks about in chapter 7. He created items that no other company had thought of and made them amazing so competitors couldn't come close. In 1985, Steve Jobs left apple to start another company called Next and when that flopped he started what would become Pixar Animations. Not every business is going to be successful even if you are Steve Jobs. He didn't stop there though and give up. When he returned to Apple he came out with ideas that made the company more profitable than ever. I think that we should all be thankful that he dropped out of Reed College to do what he really wanted. It's very inspiring to know that even without a college education you can start up a business that can change the face of technology completely. This is a lesson we can learn from Steve Jobs, because college isn't meant for everyone. Not enough people do what they want in life and end up with a job they hate. Steve Jobs loved what he did every day and at the same time created and sustained one of the most successful companies ever. In one of the video's we watched in class he said something along the lines of 'if there are too many days in a row that you aren't happy with what you are doing, then you need to make a change.' I think that's one of the most important lessons you can learn from Steve Jobs.

Steve Jobs

Samantha MacMillan

I am extremely impressed with Steve Jobs’ life and career. He seemed to defy all the odds against him and come out shining every time. Starting from his college career, he decided to drop out and save his parents the huge fortune it was to go to Reed College. This was a very risky thing to do. Going to college nowadays is looked upon as very important in getting a job and sometimes looked upon as the only way to living a successful life. Having the mind and courage of a true entrepreneur, Jobs proved this belief wrong. Like Nicholas Graham, he also started his own business at a young age. Being only twenty years old, he and his fellow partner Moz created Apple in his parents’ garage. They went from just the two of them to having four thousand employees and a two billion dollar company in just ten years. What a drastic turn in events. Who would have thought that a drop out in college could amount to so much?

This was only one of the many challenges that Jobs had overcome and had succeeded at with flying colors. The next bump in the road was being fired from a company that he originally had started. How stupid would you feel to be ousted from the company you created by people that you hired? This drastic turn in events did not stop Jobs though. Although it was devastating to have lost his job and be publicly humiliated, he went on to create the infamous Pixar animation studio and NeXT. Ironically, Apple ended up buying Jobs latest creation of NeXT and he was back into the business. The only reason that Jobs did not quit doing what he did was because of his love for his job. He wisely advises upcoming generations to not settle for a job but to wait until you find something that you love and truly have a passion for. I whole-heartedly agree with this and hope to figure out what I want to do with my life soon.

The best part about Jobs though is that he was a blue-collar type of guy. He actually worked and worked hard, unlike like most bosses or owners do. He was not a limited partner who just invests money into a business and does not have any management responsibility and liability for losses to deal with. He was a worker and an owner at the same time. He put all his energy and time into bettering the company and listening to the demands of the consumers. Jobs is an amazing entrepreneur who never gave up even when he was told that he had pancreatic cancer. He is a brilliant, determined, and successful underdog who will be deeply missed.

http://allaboutstevejobs.com/

Steve Jobs was a tremendous human being. He grew up with adopted parents and worked hard to get into college. He knew how expensive college was and felt bad about the expenses, and decided to drop out of college after six months. Steve Jobs had an idea and went for it. He knew it was a scary decision and hoped everything would be okay in the end. After dropping out of college, he decided to take a class what he didn't know is that this class would change his life forever. Jobs didn't have an easy life, he collect cans in order to pay for food and walked miles in order to get a decent meal. He did what he had to do in order to survive. He then took a class in order to pursue his idea He followed his idea and became the inventor of apple. With every young entrepreneur, there are going to be some hard times. For Steve Jobs he got fired from his own job. Can you even get fired if your the boss of your own company? After being fired, he realized something important. He loved what he did and decided to follow his idea. The most important management lesson to be learned is that if you fall get right back up. You are the future. Steve Jobs quotes " you can't connect the dots looking forward you can only connect them looking backwards" "You have to trust in something" This management lesson is one everyone can relate to. With your business you have to do whatever in order for it to be successful. You have to take everything you learned whether it be negative or positive and use those experiences towards your business. Each dot with connect you to your idea. An your idea will lead you to success. Retail has benefited from his innovations by inventing stylish phones and computers. Steve Jobs retail benefited in many ways, he invented technology that would change the future forever. His retail made people want to work for him, which made his company expand even more. Steve Jobs was not only an intelligent human being, he was a strong one too. He was diagnosed with cancer and wasn't ready to say goodbye to his family who he truly loved more than anything in the world. He overcomes many obstacles in his life and never put what he loved on hold. He believed in himself and pursued his idea. Steve Jobs is an inspiration to many young entrepreneurs. There are many lessons that we can learn from brilliant inventor Steve Jobs. One lesson is that in order to be successful you have to find something that you love. By finding what you love, you won't have to work a day in your life. Steve Jobs didn't have an easy life, and worked extremely hard in order to be as successful as he was. Like everyone in the world he encountered a bumpy road in his life, but didn't let that get in his way of pursuing his love for technology. Steve Jobs was an inspiration and will always be an inspiration in todays world and in the future.

Steve Jobs by Billy Manzi

Billy Manzi

Steve Jobs

Steve Jobs was born in 1955 and died in 2011, he lived for 56 years, in his time he was a brilliant man that single handedly created an explosion in the everyday world with his inventions such as the IPod, I pad, and IPhone. Apple as a whole had this to say, “Apple has lost a visionary and creative genius, and the world has lost an amazing human being. Those of us who have been fortunate enough to know and work with Steve have lost a dear friend and an inspiring mentor. Steve leave3s behind a company that only he could have built, and his spirit will forever be the foundation of Apple.” Steve Jobs was a leader and a great man, it is sad to see him go.

The most important management lessons that can be learned here, are that when life brings you down, never give up on your dreams. Steve Jobs was diagnosed with terminal cancer and was given 6 months to live and get his “affairs in order”. A man with that amount of time and to overcome his adversity is stunning. In management you cannot be afraid to take risks, and Steve was not.

Retail has benefited from Steve Jobs innovations in so many ways. People have been given jobs from his line of work, been credited with creations from apps on iTunes, and been stimulating the economy from purchasing his retail. Steve Jobs have been an innovator, an accomplished creator, and a generally good human being. His innovations have been credited towards new advancements and he has been credited as being just as good as people such as Henry Ford, Rockefeller, and many other big names.

The lessons that we can learn from Steve Jobs are endless, in his life, he has like I said before, overcome cancer, created revolutionary machines, and has played a role in stimulating the economy. During a little research I did on Steve Jobs, I came across an article that read, “For all that Apple is known for fast product development, the truth is that Jobs was very good at waiting. After his return to Apple in 1997, when the company teetered on the brink of bankruptcy, he did what any smart CEO would do: slashed product lines cut software and hardware engineers, eliminated peripherals, reduced inventory and retailers and moved most manufacturing offshore.” All of this means one thing to me, Steve Jobs knew that patience beats speed.

BIBLIOGRAPHY

· http://www.apple.com/stevejobs/

· http://www.bnet.com/blog/business-strategy/6-lessons-we-could-learn-from-steve-jobs/2290

Steve Jobs

Hillary White
Professor Fleury-Lawson
Business and Society
10/13/11

Steve Jobs was a computer genius. He was an American inventor and entrepreneur. He was co-founder, chairman, and chief executive officer of Apple Inc. Jobs was co-founder and previously served as chief executive of Pixar Animation Studios; he became a member of the board of directors of the Walt Disney Company in 2006, following the acquisition of Pixar by Disney. He knew everything and anything about computers and technology. If it wasn’t for Steve Jobs, our technology would not be as high tech as it is today.
What would anyone ever do with out there iPods, iPhones, iPads, etc. Steve Jobs changed the way people look at and use technology today. He changed the way people listen to music, talk on cell phone and the way people use computers. Watching his speech that he gave to Stanford University graduating students in 2005 really inspired me and I’m sure inspired others. I remember him talking about waking up each day and thinking about what you’re going to do today and if it will make you happy, and if it doesn’t make you happy, then you need to change that. He is a true inspiration, role model, hero to many people. I remember him stating that if he never got fired from apple then he would not be where he is today. In the business world you need to fail in order to succeed sometimes. Some of the most successful people out there have failed at least once in order to be standing where they are today. And that’s exactly what Steve Jobs did. He probably would have never created Apple, Pixar etc. if he never got fired from apple. But eventually he got picked up again from Apple.
The lessons that people can learn from listening to Steve Jobs is that he is definitely an extremely hard and committed worker. He put all his time and effort into whatever he chose to create. He was a very successful entrepreneur. Knowing that Steve Jobs was adopted and didn’t finish
college really made some people realize how amazing it is that he became so successful without a college degree. These days you need a college degree for almost any career you want to pursue in. Most believe that you will not survive in the real world without a college degree. Steve Jobs got very lucky. From what I have learned from watching both of these videos about Steve Jobs is that
he was extremely successful. Unfortunately Steve Jobs passed away on October 5, 2011 at a very young age of 56. He told everyone not to mourn over his death but to celebrate the accomplishment he had in his life. He is widely described as a visionary, pioneer and genius as of today.

Steve Jobs

After watching the first video on Steve Jobs at his speech at the 2005 Stanford University graduation, I am inspired on where to take myself in life. I am not saying I am going to drop out of college or that I have any cool stories that he does. I mean that if I am not happy in life and tell myself that every day, do be afraid to change even if it means taking risks and doing something out of the ordinary. Before watching this video I knew nothing about Steve Jobs but I had heard the name. Hearing his stories surprised me that he was adopted and that his parents didn’t want him. Not to be stereotypical but I always assumed that successful people came from successful backgrounds. Also I thought before watching this video that you had to having a high school diploma and graduate college to land a high paying job. The most important management lesson I learned was to keep going through the tough times and fight through them because there is always a light at the end of the tunnel. For instance, when he got fired from apple and then made his own company called Next, then further down the road Apple bought his company and he got his job back. They lesson I learned from Steve Job was the connecting the dots saying. You never look into the future and connect the dots cause you never know what the future holds, you always connect if the past.

The second video was a great tribute to Steve Jobs and his death. He told everyone not to mourn over his
death but to celebrate the accomplishment he had through his life. He suffered from Pancreatic Cancer and from an early age did not have the cookie-cutter family at home. All this did not stop him and he still created technology that no one needed at the time but today we could not live without. I would not even be typing this blog post if it wasn’t for him and his creations.