Steve Jobs – Stay Hungry, Stay Foolish
Posted on 06. Oct, 2011 by Mike in News
Steve Jobs, CEO of Apple, died today October 5th, 2011.
Not only was Steve the co-founder, chairman and CEO of the Apple Corporation, he was a visionary who added a ton of value to so many lives.
It’s said that he was worth $1,000,000 at age 23, was worth $10,000,000 at the age of 24 and by the ripe old age of 25, he had a net worth of $100,000,000.
While huge earnings and revolutionizing the electronic entertainment industry are amazing feats and enormous acheivements, the part that amazed me the most about
Steve Jobs was the blatantly obvious passion he had for what he was doing.
With regard to the figures stated above, Steve stated that none of that excited him because ti never was about the money. Now say what you will and believe what you want but
to me, that’s the ultimate life right there. When you love what you do so much that every single day is lived with excitement for what you’re creating and what you’re working toward that money is no longer the primary focus…you are truly LIVING your life.
Now I know the ding-dongs will come out of the woodwork and say things like “…well sure it’s easy to not care about the money when you’re worth $8.3 Billion” and I get that but I also wonder if this was the kind of thinking that helped to LEAD Steve Jobs to become massively wealthy.
If he were super focused on inventing cool gadgets even back in the 1970′s and wasn’t worried about trying to swing big deals and secure mergers and acquisitions, don’t you think it would give him considerably more time and effort to focus on the products he was helping to create? I do.
I’m so very wrapped up in this because of the journey that I’m on and also because of my two daughters that I’m raising. My wife and I try very hard to make sure the girls learn the things they need to learn and that they have a good time doing it. Sadly, so many people will follow the same cookie cutter path….go to school, study hard, get a job, hope you don’t lose it, hope you don’t run out of money before you die…..and then die. The kicker is that kids all start out with this crazy, boundless energy and amazing ability to imagine and dream. They don’t question things out of fear and uncertainty, they question out of thirst for knowledge, to conquer new ground and to have fun.
Tomorrow I’ll be talking to my eldest daughter about Mr. Jobs and getting her feedback. No matter what your thoughts or feelings are about Steve Jobs, the Apple Corporation, iPads, iPods, iPhones and all the other iGadgets, I hope you see the point I’m making with all this and that you take a long look at your own life and where it’s headed. I know I will.
As Steve was known to say…
“Stay Hungry, Stay Foolish”
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