10 Things I’ve Learned from Steve Jobs
Unless you live under a rock, you’ve likely heard the news that Steve Jobs resigned as CEO of Apple yesterday. I’ll leave the detailed reporting to the journalists, but as a fan girl of Mr. Jobs and the products developed while under his reign, I thought it would be fun to share 10 things I have learned from following his career so far:
- Innovate, innovate, innovate – but only if it’s useful
- Stay hungry – don’t give up
- Listen to yourself – trust your gut
- Thing big, talk big
- Stick with what works – like a nice OS
- Be cool – be colorful
- Say what you think. (Wired gathered some of the greatest Jobs’ quotes.)
- Don’t settle – say no if it’s not right
- Keep going – as long as you can, but be honest with yourself and others when it’s over
- Go out on top – but stick around to see what happens, if you can
“The end of an extraordinary era,” indeed. (As Walt Mossberg reports on Jobs’s legacy of “Changing How we Live,” in the Wall Street Journal.)