Even a Legend is Mortal
Oct 6th, 2011 by tamara
While all over the news there are reports are showing images of Steve Jobs and his great success, he also experienced FAILURES.
Steve Job’s success did not come easily!
While studying in college, he had to drop out after the first term, because his adopted parents were unable to finance his tuition fees.
Yet Steve Jobs stayed around and attended Calligraphy classes and later said: “If I had never dropped in on that single calligraphy course in college, the Mac would have never had multiprocessors or proportionally spaced fonts.”(Stanford Report. June 14, 2005.)
In late 1984 he was fired from Apple, (after a great sales slump) and founded a new company – NeXT.
Even then he had tough times, creating a workstation that was way over priced. However, something good did come out of the NeXT workstation.
According to physicist Sir Tim Berners-Lee, he was able to invent the world wide web because the workstation had provided him with the tools he needed.
In 1996 Jobs returned to Apple and learning from his previous mistakes (one of the biggest ones was that he refused to license the Mac’s graphical operating system and gave Windows its biggest successes) and became what we all know today. (http://www.itnews.com.au/News/275890,vale-steve-jobs-worlds-greatest-failure.aspx)
Maybe his biggest success was consistency and going all the way with his vision.
citation: Cochrane, Nate. “Vale Steve Jobs: World’s greatest failure”. itnews. Oct 6, 2011. <http://www.itnews.com.au/News/275890,vale-steve-jobs-worlds-greatest-failure.aspx>