You’ll Never Be The Same Again – STEVE JOBS । Motivational Video

when you grow up you tend to get told that the world is the way it is your life is just to live your life inside the world try not to bash into the walls too much uh try to have a nice family life have fun save a little money that that's a very limited life life can be much broader 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 you can change it you can influence it you can you can build your own things that other people can use and the minute that you understand that you can poke life and actually something will you know if you push in something will pop out the other side you can change it you can mold it that's maybe the most important thing is to shake off this erroneous notion that life is is there and you're just going to live in it versus embrace it change it improve it Make Your Mark upon it I I think that's very important and however you learn that once you learn it you'll want to change life and make it better cuz it's kind of messed up in a lot of ways once you learn that you'll never be the same again it's very interesting I was worth um about over a million dollars when I was 23 and over $10 million when I was 24 and over $100 million when I was 25 and it's it wasn't that important uh because I never did it for the money I I think money is wonderful thing because it enables you to do things it enables you to in invest in ideas that don't have a short-term payback and things like that but especially at that point in my life it was it was not the most important thing the most important thing was the company the people the products we were making what we were going to enable people to do with these products so I didn't think about it a great deal you I never sold any stock and just really beli that the company would would do very well over the long term now I've actually always found something to be very true which is um most people don't get those experiences because they never ask I've never found anybody that didn't want to help me if I asked them for help I always call them up I called up this will date me but I called up Bill huet when I was 12 years old and he lived in paloalto his number was still in the phone book and he answered the phone himself did yes said hi I'm Steve Jobs I'm 12 years old I I'm a student in high school and I want to build a frequency counter and I was wondering if you had any spare parts I could have and he laughed and he he gave me the spare parts to build this frequency counter and he gave me a job that summer in h Packard working on the assembly line putting nuts and bolts together on frequency counters he got me a job in the place that built them and I was in heaven and I've never found anyone who said no or hung up the phone when I called I just asked and when people ask me I try to be as responsive you know to pay that debt of gratitude back most people never pick up the phone and call most people never ask and that's what separates sometimes the people that do things from the people that just dream about them you got to act and you've got to be uh willing to fail you've got to be willing to crash and burn you know with people on the phone with starting a company with whatever if you're afraid of failing uh you won't get very far a lot of people come to me they say well I want to be an Entre R preneur and I go oh that's great what's your idea and they go well I don't have one yet and I say well I think you should go get a job as a bus boy or something until you find something you're really passionate about because it's a lot of work and I'm convinced that about half of what separates the successful entrepreneurs from the non-successful ones is pure perseverance it is so hard you pour so much of your life into this thing there are such rough moments in time that most people give up I don't blame them it's really tough and it consumes your life I mean if you're if you've got a family and you're in the early days of a company it's I can't imagine how one could do it I'm sure it's it's been done but it's rough I mean because it's a pretty much you know a 18-hour day job 7 days a week for a while so unless you have a lot of passion about this you're going to not survive you're going to give it up so you got to have an idea or a problem or a a a wrong that you want to write that you're passionate about out otherwise you're not going to have the perseverance to stick it through and I think that's half the battle right there my entire life's been spent only in one industry which is this one and but I've been in it now for about 15 years and I've seen a lot of people make a lot of things I've seen a lot of people fail a lot of things and my point of view on this or my observation is that the doers are the major thinkers the people that really create the things that change this industry are both The Thinker doer in one person and if we really go back and we examine uh you know did did Leonardo have a guy off to the side that was thinking 5 years out in the future what he would paint or the technology he would use to paint it of course not Leonardo was the artist but he also mixed all his own paints he also was a a fairly good chemist knew about pigments uh knew about human anatomy and combining all of those skills together the art and the science the thinking and the doing was what resulted in the exceptional result and there is no difference in our industry the people that have really made the contributions have been the thinkers and the doers a lot of people of course it's it's very easy to take credit for the thinking uh the doing is more concrete but somebody it's very easy for somebody say Oh I thought of this 3 years ago but usually when you dig a Little Deeper you find that the people that really did it were also the people that really work through the hard intellectual problems as well what do you imagine the next 10 years of your life is going to be about this is probably a bad example but I'm going to use it when this whole thing with Gizmodo happened I got a lot of advice from people that said you've got to just let it slide you can't you shouldn't go after a journalist because they bought stolen property and they tried to extort you should let it slide Apple's a big company now you don't want the pr you should let it slide and I thought deeply about this and I ended up concluding that the worst thing that could possibly happen as we get big and we get a little more influence in the world is if we change our core values and start letting it slide I can't do that I'd rather quit you know you go back 5 years ago what would we have done if something like this happened you go back 10 years ago we had the same values now as we had then maybe a little more experienced certainly more beat up but the core values are the same and we come into work wanting to do the same thing today as as we did five or 10 years ago which is build 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