Forbes November 12, 2024
Steve Jobs was the most dynamic tech visionary we have had, especially in our lifetime.
He was also a life coach and amateur philosopher. In his well-reported Stanford commencement speech in 2005, he told graduating students to “find what you love” and “stay hungry and foolish.” He laid out the lessons he had learned after being fired by Apple in 1985. He stated, “I didn’t see it then, but it turned out that getting fired from Apple was the best thing that could have ever happened to me,” said Jobs, 50. “It freed me to enter one of the most creative periods in my life.”
In his commencement address, Jobs shared his personal history, and his final admonishment to these...