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Your time is limited, so don't waste it living someone else's life. Don't be trapped by dogma - which is living with the results of other people's thinking. Don't let the noise of others' opinions drown out your own inner voice. And most important, have the courage to follow your heart and intuition.

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Steve Jobs asked William Hewlett, co-founder of Hewlett-Packard for some parts to complete a school project when he was 12. Impressed, Hewlett offered Jobs an internship at his company.
Jobs and his friend Steve Wozniak built and sold digital blue boxes for hacking telephone systems before they started Apple.
He admitted to have used LSD in his younger years and claimed that the drug made him think differently.
Jobs was a pescetarian which meant he ate fish but no other meat.
He named his company “Apple” because it came before Atari in the phone book—Atari was the name of the company Jobs worked for prior to creating Apple.
He was notorious for his lack of hygiene—it is said that he never bathed and walked around the office bare foot while working at Atari.
Steve Jobs always parked in the handicap parking zone.
He denied paternity of his first child who was born to a girlfriend, claiming he was sterile.
He acted as a mentor to Google founders Sergey Brin and Larry Page when the duo had newly started Google.
Steve Jobs’ last words were “Oh wow. Oh wow. Oh wow”.

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Born on February 24, 1955, Steve Jobs was the adopted son of Paul Reinhold and Clara Jobs. His biological parents were Abdulfattah ‘John’ Jandali and Joanne Carole Schieble, who could not raise Steve as their parents objected to their relationship.
Ever since a young age, Jobs was exposed to the world of mechanics. He would spent long hours with his father, dismantling and rebuilding electronic devices in the family garage. It was these experiences that gave the little boy tenacity and mechanical prowess
Academically, after passing his high school in 1972, he enrolled at the Reed College but dropped out of the same in a time frame of six months to pursue creative classes, including a course on calligraphy.

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During his life, he received several awards including National Medal of Technology in 1985 and Jefferson Award for Public Service in 1987.
He was inducted into California Hall of Fame in 2007. Same year, he was named the most powerful person in business by Fortune magazine.
2002 – PGA Vanguard Award
In 2009, Fortune magazine named him as the CEO of the decade. Following year, he ranked at No 17 in Forbes list of The World’s Most Powerful People.
In 2010, he was named person of the year by Financial Times.
2012 – Grammy Trustees Award

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While Jobs was always an intelligent and innovative thinker, his youth was riddled with frustrations over formal schooling. Jobs was a prankster in elementary school due to boredom, and his fourth-grade teacher needed to bribe him to study. Jobs tested so well, however, that administrators wanted to skip him ahead to high school — a proposal that his parents declined.

After high school, Jobs enrolled at Reed College in Portland, Oregon. Lacking direction, he dropped out of college after six months and spent the next 18 months dropping in on creative classes at the school. Jobs later recounted how one course in calligraphy developed his love of typography.

In 1974, Jobs took a position as a video game designer with Atari. Several months later he left the company to find spiritual enlightenment in India, traveling further and experimenting with psychedelic drugs.

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His first move professionally was that of a technician at Atari, Inc. in Los Gatos, California, in 1973.
In mid-1974, Jobs went to India to meet Neem Karoli Baba for spiritual enlightenment. Before he could meet Neem Karoli Baba, the Baba died and after a brief hiatus of about seven months, Jobs returned to Atari to create a circuit board for the arcade video game Breakout.
Along with Wozniak, he developed a circuit board eliminating about 50 chips from the machine thereby making the same compact. Next was the development of the digital ‘blue box’, which allowed free-long distance calls. It was the positive response of the blue box that instilled in him the need to make it big in electronics.
In 1976, along with Wozniak, he founded ‘Apple Computer Company’. Initially, the company mainly aimed at selling circuit boards. Same year, Wozniak invented the Apple I computer.
In 1985, difference of opinion between him and the company’s CEO John Sculley led to Jobs resigning from his own founded company. In the same year, he founded NeXT Inc. The company was famous for its technical strengths especially its object-oriented software development system.
In 1986, he bought the Graphics Group (later renamed Pixar) from Lucasfilm’s computer graphics division. ‘Toy Story’ was the first animation film that was released after the acquirement.
Interestingly, in 1996, when Apple acquired NeXT Inc, he returned to his own co-founded company as a de facto chief in the company and was formally named interim chief executive.
Under his guidance, a number of projects were disbanded. He introduced a whole new range of products which steeply increased the sales of the company, making it one of the electronic giants in the world.
In 1998, Apple iMac was introduced to the world. It was the direct result of his return to Apple. iMac went through a changeover in look in the following year and the world was introduced the Graphite grey Apple iMac. Since then, there have been various variations that iMac has gone through.
In 2000, he became the permanent CEO of Apple, adopting the title, iCEO. History was in the making as the company soon branched out bringing about improved digital appliances.
In 2001, the company sortied into the world of music with the introduction of iPod, iTunes digital music software and iTunes Store. The device was an instant hit and enhanced the sales and reputation of the company by leaps and bounds. The first generation of iPod gave way to revised consumer-friendly devices such as iPod classic, iPod Nano, iPod Touch and iPod shuffle.
In 2005, with Disney’s purchase of Pixar, he became the largest shareholder of Walt Disney Company with approximately 7% of the company’s stock. He served as one of the board members in the company.
In 2007, he forayed into cellular phone business with the launch of iPhone and rest as they say is history. With its multi touch display, own mobile browser, in-built iPod, the iPhone revolutionized the way the world looked towards a cellular device.
In the following years, he worked on the iPhone to come up with improvised versions. In 2008, iPhone 3G was released with three chief features: support for GPS, 3G data and tri-band UMTS/HSDPA; in 2009, iPhone 3GS was launched.
In 2010, he launched iPhone 4, which was a sleeker model than its successors and included enhanced features like five megapixel camera, secondary front facing camera with 4G capability.
In 2011, iPhone 4S was released which included Siri, a virtual assistant that is capable of voice recognition. In the same year, he resigned as the CEO of Apple but continued to serve as the chairman of the company’s board.

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Nickname

Steve Jobs

Other names

Steven Paul Jobs

Born in

San Francisco

Nationality

American

Father

Abdulfattah John Jandali

Mother

Joanne Carole Schieble

Siblings

Mona Simpson, Patricia Ann Jobs

Children

Reed Jobs, Lisa Brennan-Jobs, Erin Siena Jobs, Eve Jobs

Net worth

$8.3 Billion

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Now, we are selling over 5 million songs a day now. Isn't that unbelievable? That's 58 songs every second of every minute of every hour of every day.
It takes these very simple-minded instructions - 'Go fetch a number, add it to this number, put the result there, perceive if it's greater than this other number' - but executes them at a rate of, let's say, 1,000,000 per second. At 1,000,000 per second, the results appear to be magic.
Each year has been so robust with problems and successes and learning experiences and human experienes that a year is a lifetime at Apple. So this has been ten lifetimes.
The reason we wouldn't make a seven-inch tablet isn't because we don't want to hit a price point, it's because we don't think you can make a great tablet with a seven-inch screen.
The manual for WordStar, the most popular word-processing program, is 400 pages thick. To write a novel, you have to read a novel - one that reads like a mystery to most people. They're not going to learn slash q-z any more than they're going to learn Morse code. That is what Macintosh is all about.

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