Becoming Jobs is not an easy exercise

Who was Steve Jobs? Half-genius and half asshole? A new book, Becoming Steve Jobs: The Evolution of a Reckless Upstart into a Visionary Leader by business journalists Brent Schlender and Rick Tetzeli (published by Sceptre; distributed by Hachette India, pages 447, Price Rs 699) grapples with the question again.

The earlier, the authorized biography of Jobs by Walter Isaacson was an intense portrayal of the man. Becoming Steve Jobs, however, is blessed by the Apple management. A quote from Apple CEO Tim Cook which authors Schlender and Tetzeli have included in the book reveals what Becoming Steve Jobs is all about: “I thought the Isaacson book did him a tremendous disservice. It was just a rehash of a bunch of stuff that had already been written, and focused on small parts of his personality. You get the feeling that [Steve’s] a greedy, selfish egomaniac. It didn’t capture the person. The person I read about there is somebody I would never have wanted to work with over all this time.”

Schlender and Tetzeli have a written this book for the business community, with its focus on products and how Job’s leadership changed over the years. Isaacson’s effort, which was commissioned by Jobs himself, was focusing less on business and more on the man’s life, his struggles, tussles and triumphs. Schlender and Tetzeli have stayed away from ‘the reality distortion field’ but Becoming Steve Jobs is an equally interesting and important book that one should not miss out.

The book’s value lies in its argument that Steve is a great object lesson in someone who masterfully improved his ability to make better use of his strengths and to effectively mitigate those aspects of his personality that got in the way of those strengths.

Becoming Steve Jobs notes that Jobs’s negative qualities did not go away, nor were they replaced by new good traits.

The strength of the book derives from the fact that Schlender has been a kind of a tech industry insider having covered Apple and Jobs over the years for Fortune and The Wall Street Journal and having a working relationship with the man himself. Becoming Steve Jobs has relied on a series of interviews with people who worked with Jobs at Apple, NeXT and Pixar. May be one significant voice that is missing from here is that of the other Steve—Wozniacki.

The authors bring in—not that it is something new—Jobs’s spiritual life. They write that “the spiritual sensibility contributed greatly to the unusual breadth of his intellectual peripheral vision, which eventually led him to see possibilities—ranging from great new products to radically reinvented business models—that escaped most others.”

Jobs, who came to India seeking spiritual awakening during his under graduate days, was tempted by Buddhism. Schlender writes that Buddhism made Jobs feel justified in constantly demanding nothing less than what he deemed to be perfection from others, from the products he would create, and from himself.

Then explaining the book itself, he writes: “In Buddhist philosophy, life is often compared to an ever-changing river. There is a sense that everything, and every individual, is ceaselessly in the process of becoming. In this view of the world, achieving perfection is also a continuous process, and a goal that can never be fully attained. That’s a vision that would come to suit Steve’s exacting nature.”

And the book is an effort in telling how Steve became from an upstart to visionary leader—from setting up Apple to getting kicked out by his own recruit—CEO John Sculley, the Pepsicola man—and moving on to create NeXT and owning and backing Pixar. And finally returning chastened to Apple first as iCEO and then taking full control and coming up with a whole new range of products.

Schlender goes back to Joe Nocera’s Esquire profile of Jobs to tell us how he felt about getting ousted from Apple. “Apple is like an intensive love affair with a girl you really, really like, and then she decides to drop you and go out with someone who is not so neat.” At 30 you won’t blame Jobs for thinking that. The conclusion is that the Steve Jobs of 1986 was too raw, too self-centred, and too immature to successfully pull off the balancing act required of a big-time CEO. And that again explains the need for this book.

The NeXT did not bolster Jobs’s image but acquiring Pixar, a company of outrageously talented creative people, changed him. Pixar became the place where he really learned, albeit slowly and reluctantly and against his natural instincts, that sometime the best management technique is to forgo micromanagement and give good talented people the room they need to succeed. The authors make the conclusion that without the lessons at Pixar there would have been no great second act at Apple in 1997. May be then the best thing that could have happened to Jobs was getting kicked out by Sculley in May 1985.

So, what did Jobs learn at Pixar? His negotiating style gained new subtlety without losing its ballsy brashness. It is at Pixar that he started to develop patience—without losing any of his memorable, and motivating edge. Jobs also understood that true artists “keep risking failure just as Bob Dylan and Picasso did.”

But, then, I’m left with this question. As India Inc tries to kick start itself, I repeatedly wonder would a Jobs’s story be possible here? An abandoned baby at birth [more than an orphan]—not a teaboy—building from scratch one of the world’s most successful tech companies without any help from the government (land handouts and other freebies, licences) and the family?

Would the iPhone Exist If Steve Jobs Did Not Take LSD?

Nearly two months ago I took my first hit of acid.

The most profound experience I remember from that day was how blown away I was with the apps on my iPhone. How different, how beautiful and yet oxymoronically, how similar they were to each other compared to my pre-acid perception.

I also remember having this child-like sense of awe with the phone itself; its internal and external design features, a lucid dream behind a glass screen. It was the mirror-image sensation of the awe I had when I laid eyes on the first iPod Touch.

Upon unboxing the iPod Touch, I had nothing else in the world to compare it to. Yes, there was the Nintendo from my early childhood, the PlayStation, the computer, the cell phone, the internet, but as sufficiently advanced as those technologies were, to me, their magic was meager to the Touch.

Back to the acid:

The LSD did not take me on a “trip,” but to take my metaphor further, it let me unbox the world for the first time. Acid didn’t allow me to “think outside the box,” it allowed me to “live outside the box”; to hold the world and feel the world hold me.

It doesn’t surprise me that Jobs put “i” in front of most of Apple’s product names. After all, “i” is an effective way to symbolize both perception through “eye” and individuality through “I.” It also doesn’t surprise me that the first iPod Touch was essentially the world’s first “touch” technology. A sensory amalgamation of sight and kinesthesia; shifting realms of reality, like those that envelop the first time acid takers ego, their “I”.

Interestingly, when being asked how Steve Jobs reacted to LSD during a government security clearance, he answered that he had “no words” for it. He did, however, share that:

“It was a positive life changing experience for me and I am glad I went through that experience.”

The full quote from Walter Isaacson’s book, Steve Jobs.

If someone had asked me how I reacted to the iPod touch, I would have answered similarly. Words like “magical,” “erotic,” “profound,” and “beautiful” all fall short. It’s not that language itself is the limiting technology, but our capacity to synchronize it effectively with our emotions.

Where am I going with this?

Well, I came to the conclusion, a self-realization I should say, the Steve Jobs would not have invented the iPhone had he not taken LSD.

I arrived at this realization by examining my feelings about the iPod Touch when I had first “taken” it, as one would an exogenous substance. The feelings I felt about the world, people, myself, beauty, and everything else, after taking LSD, showed me the former was an expression, a containment, a symbol, a vessel, a carbon copy, of the latter.

My belief is that Steve Jobs, at some point in his life, decided he would give as many people across the world access to a connection, a love, an experience, so deep, as deep as he had with LSD, but through his work.

Whereas a musician might write and sing for the same purpose, to create, express, connect, and evolve further with his audience, the iPhone was made as a synonym, of sorts, to the experience of psychedelia.

Nine hours after my first dose of acid, I fell asleep at 6AM. Later that day I was interested to see if anyone else had made the same connection between LSD and Steve Jobs’s creation as I had. There were two interesting articles. The first was from Times, and it was titled ‘Steve Jobs Had LSD. We Have the iPhone‘:

“The paradoxes of love have perhaps never been clearer than in our relationships with Apple products — the warm, fleshy desire we feel for such cold, hard, glassy objects. But Jobs knew how to inspire material lust. He knew that consumers want something that not only sparkles and awes, but also feels accessible, easy to use, an object with which we want to merge and to feel one and the same.

Not coincidentally, that’s how people describe the experience of taking psychedelic drugs. It feels profoundly artificial yet deeply real, both high-tech and earthy-crunchy, human and mystically divine — in a word, transcendent. Jobs had this experience. He said that taking LSD was one of the two or three most important things he’d ever done. “He said there were things about him that people who had not tried psychedelics — even people who knew him well, including his wife — could never understand.

As attested by the nearly spiritual devotion so many consumers have to Jobs’ creations, the former Apple chief (and indeed many other top technology pioneers) appeared to have found enduring inspiration in LSD. Research shows that the psychedelic experience is, in fact, long lasting: a new study published last week found that people who took magic mushrooms (psilocybin) had long-term personality changes, becoming more open, more curious, more intellectually engaged and more creative. These personality shifts persisted more than a year after taking the drugs.

– John Markoff reported for the Times.

The second was from Metro News and it was titled ‘The Apple that Steve Jobs built based on sex, drugs and rock ‘n’ roll‘. Mr. Dormehl told Metro:

“You have Jim Warren, the creator of the West Coast Computer Faire. In the ‘60s, he was a full-blown hippie. He joined anti-war protests, he joined a commune — the whole shebang. He was also hosting naked house parties and dropping acid.’

Jobs certainly grew up in the thick of the 60s revolution. Allen Ginsberg wrote his seminal poem Howl, one of the most popular of the counterculture generation, only a few months after Steve Jobs was born in 1955, in a coffee house just one hour away from where the future Apple CEO enjoyed his childhood in California.

Mr Dormehl said: ‘Certainly, if we didn’t have this revolution which went on in the 1960s and 1970s, which was largely fuelled by drug use and LSD exploration, giving people new ways of looking at the world, personal computer technology wouldn’t have developed along the same lines that it did.

‘Before Apple, computers were seen as these sinister government mainframes that regular people wouldn’t have access to.

‘After Apple, suddenly personal computers are these tools of freedom fighting and tools of personal creativity.’

In their 1991 profile of Jobs, the FBI noted: ‘Mr Jobs may have experimented with illegal drugs, having come from that generation.’”

Is All Acid Corrosive?

Before taking LSD I thought the experience would be mostly visual, and if anything, very confusing. When I thought of an acid experience, I thought of people sitting in the corners of rooms for days, thinking they’re oranges and scratching their skin off. I thought of things like MKUltra and A Clockwork Orange. I thought of things like hallucinogen persisting perception disorder and being arrested.

Two or three weeks after taking acid for the first time, I compared these notions to what I actually experienced. There was a glaring disconnect between what I expected psychedelics to be and what they actually were. After doing some digging on LSD research, I stumbled across an article titled ‘Dr. Robin Carhart-Harris is the first scientist in over 40 years to test LSD on humans — and you’re next‘.

Here’s an extract:

Professor David Nutt, the director of the Neuropsychopharmacology Unit where Carhart-Harris is doing the research […] has written extensively about the wrong-headedness of the current drug laws. “It is absurd to treat LSD and psilocybin as more dangerous than heroin,” he tells me. In a 2010 study published in The Lancet, following on from the work that led to his controversial sacking from the chair of the Government’s Advisory Council on the Misuse of Drugs the year before, Professor Nutt ranked the 20 most commonly used drugs according to the evidence for the overall amount of harm they do to the users and to society. Psilocybin came last, with an overall harm score of six, and LSD came 18th with a score of seven, compared with alcohol’s 72 and heroin’s 55.

When I ask why LSD was prohibited, he has a surprisingly simple three-word answer: “the Vietnam war”. Essentially, when its use spread to the general population in the mid 1960s, “Young Americans realised they didn’t want to fight any more. That brought a huge tension into society. So they had to create reasons for banning the drug. Everyone knew the arguments were totally specious. But no one stood up.”

Carhart-Harris has a further explanation: “Psychedelics are scary because they reveal the mind, and people are scared of their own minds. They’re scared of the human condition, really.”

LSD is banned from medical research in the U.S. due to its classification as a Schedule I substance under the Controlled Substances Act of 1970. A Schedule I substance is defined as having no safe dose with any medical supervision (such as one that would be conducted under a strict research experiment), and as having no accepted medical use.

Just like marijuana, LSD is non-addictive, but both substances continue to be categorized as Schedule I substances. Furthermore, today in 2015, it is still not possible to research LSD or mushrooms in the U.S., whereas addictive substances such as methamphetamine can not only be researched, but also prescribed for treatment of ADHD and weight loss under the name of Desoxyn.

I don’t consider myself knowledgeable enough to provide an argument for the legalization of psychedelics, and I probably never will if LSD and mushrooms remain unavailable for medical research. This has to change.

Compared to cocaine and heroin, I know absolutely nothing about the short-term effects, long-term effects, benefits, or downsides of psychedelics; and that’s all because it’s legally not possible for researchers to administer experimental doses (of substances that entrepreneurs, musicians, artists, scientists, “trippers,” and everyday people have been taking for hundreds of centuries combined) to willing volunteers.

What little research there is seems at odds with the mainstream taboos:

“In Johns Hopkins’ ongoing program of psilocybin research, scientists have treated over 150 volunteers in 350 drug-trial sessions. Although many participants experienced at least some type of anxiety reaction while on the drug, none of them reported lasting harm, and 70% rated the experience as one of the top five most meaningful events of their lives, comparable to the birth of a first child or the loss of a parent.”

There is plenty of anecdotal evidence all over the internet, by people of all walks of life:

“Based on my own LSD experience I would concur, second only to the birth of my son (which wouldn’t have happened if not for my earlier LSD experience).”

Then there’s also the experiences of some of the best musicians of our time:

“The Beatles, Santana, Jimi Hendrix, Grateful Dead, Eminem, Green Day, Jefferson Airplane, Pink Floyd, the Moody Blues, Fatboy Slim, Suede, the Doors, Cream, and Janis Joplin are just a few of the artists known to use acid as part of their creative process.” — Hijacked

Not to mention that the most interesting experiences shared might not even come from musicians and entrepreneurs, but from people online having “documented” their thought process while taking acid for the first time:

“Why am I here? I dont belong. Work my life away for essential worthless? and IOU from a personal bank? in comparison to spending time with my faimly and friends creating memories instead. Why can’t I find my meaning? Is it staring me in the face? Is it happiness? how do I achieve this? 2.) Society, I don’t understand, I don’t belong to this. The majority of people I see only care for their personal comfort. Not the senseless war and killing of human beings so long as it doesn’t interfere with their personal comfort. There’s always something to fight and die for? Why? Why can’t we as a society catch on to the meaniless cycles we keep repeating. Over and Over again. Work, work, work, war, war, war. Followed by distractions to keep unfocused.”

So why the disconnect? Conspiracy? Illuminati? Aliens? I think it was much simpler.

Carhart-Harris’s believes LSD was originally banned because:

“Psychedelics are scary because they reveal the mind, and people are scared of their own minds. They’re scared of the human condition, really.”

Before taking LSD for the first time I was afraid, putting myself through a state of consciousness I had never experienced.

What if I kill myself? What if I say something really absurd because of the acid and people think I’m crazy? What if I say something really absurd because the acid lets me, and I convince people that I actually believe it, because I actually do, and people think I’m crazy? What if I run outside or yell or get arrested? What if I get in a car and start driving?

It is clear to me now, that everything I was afraid about doing on psychedelics, was not a fear of what I would do differently, but a fear of what I might truly want to do in normal life. For example, in the past I’ve suffered with suicidal thoughts, and I was worried I would hurt myself because that’s what I may have wanted to do all along. Needless to say, even this wasn’t worth fretting over.

A poem I wrote in my room while on LSD

As a kid I wasn’t the best at not letting my curiosity or patience get the best of me. You’ve probably done the same thing yourself before: need to be at least 13 years or older to join Facebook? Click, 1990, next. Need to read a 100-paged terms of agreement that says your location, habits, and personal information can be stored and shared with just about anyone if you sign up? Click agree, next.

If acid had a terms of agreement, I’d imagine they would look something like this:

WAIVER OF LIABILITY FOR THE ACID OR MUSHROOMS YOU ARE ABOUT TO EXPERIENCE:

Possibilities are as follows: profound life experiences, paranoia, life-long perception altering realizations, unrealized life passions and goals, acute anxiety, depression, flashbacks, suicide, distortion of time and space, movements and patterns of people and surfaces, belief that you’re an alien, belief that you’re an avatar, kissing floors, painting, drawing, watching videos and feeling like you’re in them, long-lasting psychoses such as schizophrenia or severe depression, fear of insanity, death, terrifying thoughts and feelings, hearing colors and seeing sounds, rapid emotions, new emotions, high blood pressure, low blood pressure, sleeplessness, dry mouth, tremors, nausea, weakness of the limbs, inability to speak, weakness of the lips, paranoia of choking, sweating, high body temperatures, hallucinations, delusions, desire to be naked, desire to be clothed in multiple layers, desire to drive, desire to ride a bicycle, desire to have sex, desire to learn something new, desire to engage in marijuana smoking, feeling as amazed by the world as the psychedelics wear of as when they first kicked in, hoping that psychedelic patterns and thoughts remain throughout your life at least at one percent intensity, and many other possibilities. Not to mention that any psychedelic experience is often 100% unpredictable, and no matter what you think about “tripping” before putting such a substance in your body will prepare you for anything that you’re going to discover once it kicks in.

I know I don’t regret reading those long terms of agreement pages or waiting until I turned 13 to make an email account, play RuneScape, or play teen-rated video games. I also know I don’t regret doing barely any research into what acid was before placing a little white piece of paper on my tongue, holding it there, and waiting to experience something I had no idea of what to expect going in, simply because it was available, non-addicting, and promising.

If someone made me sign a waiver of liability like the one written above before taking acid, I would have done so without reading it, as I did with the CoSM entry ticket papers and various other important papers I should have read in my life before signing.

I don’t know how Steve Jobs would have reacted to a similar waiver had it been placed in front of him before embarking on any of the things he did in his life, but I like to imagine he would have shared my frivolity.

“Here’s to the crazy ones, the misfits, the rebels, the troublemakers, the round pegs in the square holes… the ones who see things differently — they’re not fond of rules… You can quote them, disagree with them, glorify or vilify them, but the only thing you can’t do is ignore them because they change things… they push the human race forward, and while some may see them as the crazy ones, we see genius, because the ones who are crazy enough to think that they can change the world, are the ones who do.”

– Steve Jobs

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Steve Jobs said “You can’t connect the dots looking forward, you can only connect them looking backward.” When I connect the dots I see a clear line between the iPhone and LSD.

“You’re born alone, you’re going to die alone,” he said. “And does anything else really matter? I mean what is it exactly is it that you have to lose Steve? You know? There’s nothing.”

However Mr Jobs’s views softened after he became ill, Mr Isaacson told a CBS 60 Minutes programme marking the release of the book ‘Steve Jobs’ on Monday.

“Maybe it’s ‘cos I want to believe in an afterlife,” he recalled Mr Jobs saying. “That when you die, it doesn’t just all disappear. The wisdom you’ve accumulated. Somehow it lives on.

– (Steve Jobs refused on/off switch for iPhone because he hoped there was an afterlife)The Telegraph

Whether LSD really was responsible for the development of the iPhone, to me, is a moot point. Of course, genetics, environment and randomness played a huge part. The point of this post is the question, not the answer: Would the iPhone Exist If Steve Jobs Did Not Take LSD? If this question can be legitimately asked, analyzed, and considered plausible then surely that says as much about the potential nature of LSD as any small-scale study could.

Can LSD enrich the world? I don’t know. But I’m not gonna stop asking until I do.

Warren Buffett and Bill Gates Agree—This Factor Was Most Important for their Success

Berkshire Hathaway Chairman and CEO Warren Buffett.

Focus is one of the most important traits of successful people.

Warren Buffett, Steve Jobs, and Bill Gates have all attributed their success to one factor. In fact, this one trait is behind the success of all people that have performed massively better than the average person. Read on to find out what the trait is and how you can put it into practice in your own life and investing.

The most important factor for success

According to Alice Schroeder, in 1991 when Bill Gates’ dad asked Buffett and Gates what the most important factor for their success was, they both gave the same answer, “focus.”

Gates’ focus was illustrated in Walter Isaacson’s new book The Innovators, as well as Gates’ fellow Microsoft co-founder Paul Allen:

One trait that differentiated the two was focus. Allen’s mind would flit between many ideas and passions, but Gates was a serial obsessor.

“Where I was curious to study everything in sight, Bill would focus on one task at a time with total discipline,” said Allen. “You could see it when he programmed. He would sit with a marker clenched in his mouth, tapping his feet and rocking; impervious to distraction.”

Steve Jobs was the same way; he was relentlessly focused on attacking problems searching for the best answer. Apple’s founding marketing philosophy had three main tenets the second of which is focus:

In order to do a good job of those things we decide to do we must eliminate all of the unimportant opportunities.

Focus was key for Buffett as well, Schroeder writes: “He ruled out paying attention to almost anything but business—art, literature, science, travel, architecture—so that he could focus on his passion.”

Why is this so important?

In life and investing, you need to be relentlessly focused on your goals if you want to have better than average results.

Differentiation

To stick out from the crowd, you need to do something better than everyone else. There’s no standard definition of what “better” is though. McDonald’s does low prices and quick drive through service while Chipotle does massive burritos with a great service culture. They both have been wildly successful as they focus on doing one thing well.

What gets companies and people into trouble is when they try and do too much, leading to mediocrity.

McDonalds has been suffering lately as its menu has grown to accommodate so many different items that is has gotten unwieldy, leading to a confusing menu and longer wait times.

Apple was a disaster with 350 different products before Jobs came back in 1998. He refocused the business around the customer experience, simplifying Apple’s focus to just 10 products. Everyone knows the rest of the story.

Successful investing

Like success in life and business, to be successful in investing, you need focus and time if you want to do better than average. As Warren Buffett has explained,

“Successful Investing takes time, discipline and patience. No matter how great the talent or effort, some things just take time: You can’t produce a baby in one month by getting nine women pregnant.”

Just getting to average performance is hard enough. While by definition, the average investor cannot do better than average, the average investor would do nearly 80% better if he or she simply earned the average market return. Most investors would be better off in index funds.

The first key part to be successful is to learn the mistakes that hold people back and avoid them. For investors these include being too active, overconfident, loss-averse, taking on debt to invest, and making rash decisions based on daily market movements, among others.

The second part is to know what your goals are and have a process where you constantly learn, think independently, andquickly try and figure out when you are wrong. You need to go put in the effort so that you can evaluate a selection of businesses and build a circle of competence, that is a set of businesses and industries that you can understand and can independently evaluate. Only then will you be able to select businesses whose values are misjudged by the market, providing an opportunity for you to profit. To get to that point, Buffett suggests:

Read 500 pages like this [annual reports, trade journals, etc.] every day. That’s how knowledge works. It builds up, like compound interest. All of you can do it, but I guarantee not many of you will do it.

Most people don’t do this. The key is to realize the limits of your knowledge, you can’t know and be good at everything. For this reason, most people shouldn’t try and invest in stocks to beat the market since they can’t put in the time and focus.

However, by learning about investing and how to evaluate businesses you build knowledge that will help you understand your job better, your industry better, and everyday life better. As Buffett has said,

“I am a better investor because I am a businessman and I am a better businessman because I am an investor.”

Investing is a lifelong journey, not a sprint. If you are willing to put in the time and focus, a commitment to learning how to invest will pay dividends for the rest of your life.

My Favorite Inspirational Quotes

I love quotes because it consists of so much experience and journeys of someone inside a short sentence. It is like a picture that tells a thousand words, a quote shared a thousand steps of experience. It can even be the sentence that keeps you going, with your great times and also hard times. Somehow it will provoke your thought and actions to be different than you used to take, and grows within one’s wisdom.

Hereby share with everyone some of the great quotes I love, and I do create a separate Quotes post for some of the Quotes here, as they’re great and I love to share with everyone these beautiful quotes of Wise people.

1. Defeat is not the worst of failures. Not to have tried is the true failure. | George Edward Woodberry

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2. We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence then, is not an act, but a habit. | Aristotle

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3. That which does not kill us makes us stronger. | Friedrich Nietzsche

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4. Be careful the environment you choose for it will shape you; be careful the friends you choose for you will become like them. | W. Clement Stone

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5. Never argue with stupid people, they will drag you down to their level and then beat you with experience. | Mark Twain

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6. Great minds discuss concepts,

Average minds discuss events,

Small minds discuss others,

Minute minds only discuss themselves. | Eleanor Roosevelt

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7. Insanity: Doing the same thing over and over again and expecting different results. | Albert Einstein

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8. Books are the quietest and most constant of friends; they are the most accessible and wisest of counselors, and the most patient of teachers. | Charles W. Eliot

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9. Watch your thoughts; they become words.
Watch your words; they become actions.
Watch your actions; they become habits.
Watch your habits; they become character.
Watch your character; it becomes your destiny. Lao Tzu

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10. Knowing is not enough; we must apply. Willing is not enough: we must do. | Bruce Lee

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11. If today were the last day of my life, would I want to do what I am about to do today?” And whenever the answer has been “No” for too many days in a row, I know I need to change something. | Steve Jobs

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12. I’d rather be hated for who I am,
than loved for who I am not. | Kurt Cobain

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13. Never let your memories be greater than your dream. | Doug Ivester

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14. Be yourself; everyone else is already taken. | Oscar Wilde

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15. Whether you think you can or whether you think you can’t, you’re right. | Henry Ford

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16. Everyone thinks of changing the World, but no one thinks of changing himself. | Leo Tolstoy

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17. It is not because things are difficult that we do not dare; it is because we do not dare that things are difficult. | Seneca

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18. If you’re not willing to risk, you cannot grow. If you cannot grow, you cannot be your best. IF you cannot be your best, you cannot be happy. If you cannot be happy, what else is there? | Les Brown

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19. Some people like my advice so much that they frame it upon the wall instead of using it. | Gordon R. Dickson

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20. What you do not want done to yourself, do not do to others. | Confucius

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Remember that quotes are beautiful, but if you just remember it without it inspire you to take real actions to change and moving forward in a better way, it is useless.

So what is your favorite quote/s that inspire you all the way down the road? Let’s share it in the comment box down here. 

Steve Jobs vs. Bill Gates / Apple vs. Microsoft

            Steve Jobs vs. Bill Gates / Apple vs. Microsoft

• Flip A Coin

They both probably use Credit Cards or a personal assistance that will always be at their side attending to their needs.

• Bank Borrowing From Bill Gates

• Bill Gates Nobel Prize

For those that doesn’t get this joke, for your information, Bill Gates is not the biggest share holder of Microsoft, he has been selling down his share in Microsoft for many years and have invested his wealth in medical and services industries such as Four Season hotels.

• Penguins

Linux’s official mascot is a penguin.

• Cannibalism

Who wants to be a millionaire TV show.

• Saving Money To Buy A House

How much Bill Gates make per minute? Bill Gates is worth of $72 billion, a 6% rate of return would earn Gates roughly $114.16 per second he is alive, making it a poor investment for Bill Gates to bother picking up a $100 bill if he dropped it. For 5 minutes, he could have bought a simple apartment at USD34K.

• On Being Poor

Steve Jobs comes from a middle class family while Bill Gates comes from a upper class family.

Steve Jobs and Bill Gates Together in 2007 at D5

Bill Gates and Steve Jobs are interviewed live together at the D5: All Things Digital conference. In this historic conversation, Jobs and Gates are asked to comment on each other’s greatest contributions to digital technology, as well as what they perceive.