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"FROM THE AUTHOR OF THE BESTSELLING BIOGRAPHIES OF BENJAMIN FRANKLIN AND ALBERT EINSTEIN, THIS IS THE EXCLUSIVE BIOGRAPHY OF STEVE JOBS. Based on more than forty interviews with Jobs conducted over two years--as well as interviews with more than a hundred family members, friends, adversaries, competitors, and colleagues--Walter Isaacson has written a riveting story of the roller-coaster life and searingly intense personality of a creative entrepreneur whose passion for perfection and ferocious drive revolutionized six industries: personal computers, animated movies, music, phones, tablet computing, and digital publishing. At a time when America is seeking ways to sustain its innovative edge, and when societies around the world are trying to build digital-age economies, Jobs stands as the ultimate icon of inventiveness and applied imagination. He knew that the best way to create value in the twenty-first century was to connect creativity with technology. He built a company where leaps of the imagination were combined with remarkable feats of engineering. Although Jobs cooperated with this book, he asked for no control over what was written nor even the right to read it before it was published. He put nothing off-limits. He encouraged the people he knew to speak honestly. And Jobs speaks candidly, sometimes brutally so, about the people he worked with and competed against. His friends, foes, and colleagues provide an unvarnished view of the passions, perfectionism, obsessions, artistry, devilry, and compulsion for control that shaped his approach to business and the innovative products that resulted. Driven by demons, Jobs could drive those around him to fury and despair. But his personality and products were interrelated, just as Apple's hardware and software tended to be, as if part of an integrated system. His tale is instructive and cautionary, filled with lessons about innovation, character, leadership, and values"--
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You have to be burning with an idea, or a problem, or a wrong that you want to right. If you're not passionate enough from the start, you'll never stick it out.
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Details matter, it's worth waiting to get it right.
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People think focus means saying yes to the thing you've got to focus on. But that's not what it means at all. It means saying no to the hundred other good ideas that there are. You have to pick carefully.
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Early Influences
Steve Jobs’ childhood in Silicon Valley and his adoption played crucial roles in shaping his personality. His adoptive father, Paul Jobs, introduced him to electronics and mechanics, fostering an early interest in technology and design.
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Meeting Steve Wozniak
Jobs met Steve Wozniak in high school, forming a partnership that would revolutionize technology. Their complementary skills—Jobs’ vision and Wozniak’s engineering prowess—set the stage for Apple’s creation.
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Founding Apple
In 1976, Jobs and Wozniak founded Apple in Jobs’ garage. They aimed to create personal computers that were user-friendly and beautifully designed, leading to the launch of the Apple I and Apple II.
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I became an instant fan of Steve Jobs by reading it without using any Apple product in my life. Now, I want to use iPhone purchased through my income.
No Worries About Money
I never worried about money. I grew up in a middle class family, so I never thought I would starve. And I learned at Atari that I could be an okay engineer.
I was voluntarily poor when I was in college and India, and I lived a pretty simple life when I was working. So I went from fairly poor, which was wonderful, because I didn't have to worry about money, to being incredibly rich, when I also didn't have to worry about money.
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Money ruins life
I watched people at Apple who made a lot of money and felt they had to live differently. Some of them bought a Rolls-Royce and various houses, each with a house manager and then someone to manage the house manager. Their wives got plastic surgery and turned into these bizarre people. This was not how I wanted to live. It's crazy. I made a promise to myself that I'm not going to let this money ruin my life.
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Never Get Too Excited
Time decided they were going to make me Man of the Year, and I was twenty-seven, so I actually cared about stuff like that. I thought it was pretty cool. They sent out Mike Moritz to write a story. We're the same age, and I had been very successful, and I could tell he was jealous. So the editors in New York get this story and say, "We can't make this guy Man of the Year." That really hurt. But it was a good lesson. It taught me to never get too excited about things like that, since the media is a circus anyway.
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Creativity is just connecting things.
When you ask creative people how they
did something, they feel a little guilty
Because they didn't really do it, they
just say something. It seemed obvious
To then after a while.
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To empower the self ideas.
The ones who are crazy enough to think that they can change the world are the ones who do.
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Hungry & Fools
Challenges will always do their best to take you down.
Do not let them, face them, confront them.
It's quite simple, understand the difference between Right & Wrong
"आहारनिद्राभयमैथुनं च सामान्यमेतत्पषुभिर्निराणाम्"
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The only way to do great work is to love what you do.
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Gets into the beauty of apples design and a good way to look at products
As you bring order to complexity, you find a way to make the product defer to you.... It involves digging through the depth of the complexity. To be trulu simplr, you have to go really deep.
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Ideas wait for their time.
Ideas wait for their time. An idea that is absurd and unnecessary to everyone right now could create solutions that will satisfy everyone's needs in the future.
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"My job is not to be easy on people. My job is to make them better."
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