![]() ![]() They’re not fond of rules, and they have no respect for the status quo. It’s more fun to be a pirate than to join the Navy.įamous Apple Ad with Einstein, Picasso, etc. (Video): Here’s to the crazy ones. They somehow already know what you truly want to become. Don’t be trapped by dogma, which is living with the results of other people’s thinking.Īnd most important, have the courage to follow your heart and intuition. Your time is limited, so don’t waste it living someone else’s life. Now, as you graduate to begin anew, I wish that for you, ‘ Stay hungry, stay foolish‘. Some people aren’t used to an environment where excellence is expected. People judge you on your performance, so focus on the outcome. You have to trust in something, your gut, destiny, life, karma, whatever. But we loved it, we were young, and we could do it. We were really working fourteen-to-eighteen-hour days, seven days a week. People who know what they’re talking about don’t need PowerPoint. One way to remember who you are is to remember who your heroes are. There is a tremendous amount of craftsmanship between a great idea and a great product. You have to be willing to take whatever you’ve done and whoever you were and throw them away. If you want to live your life in a creative way, as an artist, you have to not look back too much. We could build a little thing that could control a giant thing and that was an incredible lesson.īelieving that the dots will connect down the road will give you the confidence to follow your heart.ĭon’t take it all too seriously. On the blue box: That was what we learned: was that us, too, we didn’t know much. ![]() The really great person will keep on going and find the key, underlying principle of the problem, and come up with a beautiful elegant solution that works. We are very careful about what features we add because we can’t take them away. And we figured even if we crash and burn, and lose everything, the experience will have been worth ten times the cost. That’s been one of my mantras – focus and simplicity. I had a Volkswagen van, I mean, all we were going to lose is our cars and the shirts off our back. We have no families, no children, no houses. I was 20 years old at the time, Woz was 24-25, so we have nothing to lose. That’s why we started Apple, we said you know, we have absolutely nothing to lose. I always advise people – Don’t wait! Do something when you are young, when you have nothing to lose, and keep that in mind. Once you discover one simple fact, and that is everything around you that you call life, was made up by people that were no smarter than you. And the Mac people want to do something insanely great. The Lisa people wanted to do something great. I think all of us need to be on guard against arrogance which knocks at the door whenever you’re successful. The people that have really made the contributions have been the thinkers and the doers. The most precious thing that we all have with us is time.ĭon’t get hung up on who owns the idea.
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