STEVEN PAUL JOBS
February 24, 1955-October 5, 2011
“Steve was among the greatest of American innovators – brave enough to think differently, bold enough to believe he could change the world, and talented enough to do it.”
– President Barack Obama, October 5, 2011.
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.
Death is very likely the single best invention of Life. It is Life’s change agent. [Stanford Commencement Address, 2005] "My model for business is The Beatles.There were four guys who kept each others, kind of, negative tendencies in check. They balanced each other, and the total was greater than the sum of the parts. And that’s how I see ["60 Minutes" interview, 2003] “That’s been one of my mantras — focus and simplicity. Simple can be harder than complex: You have to work hard to get your thinking clean to make it simple. But it’s worth it in the end because once you get there, you can move mountains.” In my mind, Steve jobs was one of the most original thinkers of our time. When I teach copyright law at Belmont University in Nashville, one of the first lectures I deliver to my students regards the origins of an idea, that sliver of creativity that some lucky few of the human race get to reach up and grab, an original idea. Some philosophers and thinkers would have us believe that there is no such thing as an original idea, that everything had a predecessor. Even Solomon is quoted as saying that “there is nothing new under the sun.” Any truth in that philosophy is obliterated by the life of a man like Steve Jobs. –Barry Neil Shrum, Esquire
business. You know, great things in business are never done by one person. They’re done by a team of people.
