“Steve Jobs could have been a failure,” David Asman writes for FOX Business. “He dropped out of college, even though his parents struggled to get him there. And, ten years after starting one of the most innovative computer companies in the world, he was fired by the board. Imagine getting fired from a multi-billion dollar company that you started in your own garage.”
Asman writes, “What stopped Steve Jobs from being a failure was one simple thing: Attitude. Here’s what he told a graduating class at Stanford University in 2005: 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. The heaviness of being successful was replaced by the lightness of being a beginner again, less sure about everything. It freed me to enter one of the most creative periods of my life.“
“We can’t all go on to lead the kind of life that Steve Jobs did after he was fired. But we can duplicate the attitude that he brought to his getting fired. He turned what could have been a humiliating job loss into an incredible period of growth. He turned failure into success,” Asman writes. “All by attitude. It won’t buy you dinner, but it can help turn your life around.”
Full article here.
Job’s come back and the success he brings, means he’s a force no one can stop except God…
Lot’s of stories these days about how individuals can change things, but the real problem is that we’ve gone back to the days of robber barons.
Americans in particular need to understand that publicly traded corporations are not American, and they have no loyalty to this country or any other. They see themselves as above nationality, with their only responsibility to their largest share holders.
A successfull life is simply to be happy… nothing to do with fame…
“Lot’s of stories these days about how individuals can change things, but the real problem is that we’ve gone back to the days of robber barons. “
duh, why else would everyone being pushing stories about how the individual can change things unless they can’t….
you don’t tell stories about being freed from slavery if you aren’t a slave.
I use an Apple computer. SJ’s success simply means that I can enjoy progressively better and better computing experiences instead of wallowing in the mire that is Windows.
It was funny, my buddy came over and saw my iMac. “That’s a nice monitor” he said.
“Er, that’s the whole computer”, I replied, to which he looked under the desk to make sure I wasn’t having him on.
“Ok, so where’s the CD drive?” was the next question.
I love my iMac.
Bill Gates is a college dropout too.
The only difference is that his board never gave him the boot!
The MS board would have never rehired him! For the whole world, that’s too bad.
You are an idiot. You clearly don’t know who the “largest shareholders” of those corporations are do you?
It may surprise you but you and me and the rest of us. We all have a stake on those corporations doing well, because we depend on them having done well when we retire.
Take your ridiculous communist views an put them where you want, but not in front of me.
Which goes to show you that college isn’t everything.
Happiness is usually found when you realize you don’t need “stuff” to be so.
@@Jobs. Please, keep your conservative insults to yourself. No need to come and flame here. Really, what the hell makes you presume ‘ridiculous communist views’ are Jobs’ view? And if they are, who are you to judge anyone?
Seriously, your kind of flaming posts really piss me off…
“Shareholders” are those who, literally, hold shares. This is a different concept than “stakeholders.”
And corporate responsibility has absolutely nothing whatsoever to do with Communism.
I read in somebody’s biography that Steve couldn’t afford to go to college, but attended classes anyway, and after he got busted, they let him stay as a non-credited observer (there’s some term for that, but I can’t remember). I’m not sure he could be classified a “dropout.”
the phrase is ‘audited”, for attending a class without being marked etc.
How does a discussion about Steve Jobs becoming successful after apparent failures degrade to pissing on each others’ shoes about shareholders versus communism?
Dumbest damn thing I ever saw.
i resound imac’s sentiment – my mom did the same thing when i gave her my old emac. =)
anyhow, yes, it’s great that jobs got back into apple. the nextstep-based mac os x is what won me over.
Why do brainwashed fools call the notion of wealth being shared Communism?
Do you blasted nitwits not see that the whole frickin PLANET is a ‘Community’ of Flora and Fauna?
Wealth is with the Robber Baron, then taken away by the mob at the Palace gates.
Its life – it encompasses Communism, Capitalism, and a whole host of other descriptions of the way things ebb and flow.
Its a WORD, dummy. Open your eyes and shut up.
Smoke a Cuban cigar. Read Marx. Read Ayn Rand – she was a communist and didnt even know it.
Or was she a Lesbian? Who cares.
I propose that mentioning Communism is the the same as calling someone a Nazi – it essentially means that intelligent discussion is over.
As for Steve Jobs, he wisely noticed that failure is the start of success – its the Ebb and Flow, baby, the Ebb and the Flow.
Feel it. Love it. Dig it. Embrace it.
Why do brainwashed fools call the notion of wealth being shared Communism?
Do you blasted nitwits not see that the whole frickin PLANET is a ‘Community’ of Flora and Fauna?
Wealth is with the Robber Baron, then taken away by the mob at the Palace gates.
Its life – it encompasses Communism, Capitalism, and a whole host of other descriptions of the way things ebb and flow.
Its a WORD, dummy. Open your eyes and shut up.
Smoke a Cuban cigar. Read Marx. Read Ayn Rand – she was a communist and didnt even know it.
Or was she a Lesbian? Who cares.
I propose that mentioning Communism is the the same as calling someone a Nazi – it essentially means that intelligent discussion is over.
As for Steve Jobs, he wisely noticed that failure is the start of success – its the Ebb and Flow, baby, the Ebb and the Flow.
Feel it. Love it. Dig it. Embrace it.
Why do brainwashed fools call the notion of wealth being shared Communism?
Do you blasted nitwits not see that the whole frickin PLANET is a ‘Community’ of Flora and Fauna?
Wealth is with the Robber Baron, then taken away by the mob at the Palace gates.
Its life – it encompasses Communism, Capitalism, and a whole host of other descriptions of the way things ebb and flow.
Its a WORD, dummy. Open your eyes and shut up.
Smoke a Cuban cigar. Read Marx. Read Ayn Rand – she was a communist and didnt even know it.
Or was she a Lesbian? Who cares.
I propose that mentioning Communism is the the same as calling someone a Nazi – it essentially means that intelligent discussion is over.
As for Steve Jobs, he wisely noticed that failure is the start of success – its the Ebb and Flow, baby, the Ebb and the Flow.
Feel it. Love it. Dig it. Embrace it.
Why do brainwashed fools call the notion of wealth being shared Communism?
Do you blasted nitwits not see that the whole frickin PLANET is a ‘Community’ of Flora and Fauna?
Wealth is with the Robber Baron, then taken away by the mob at the Palace gates.
Its life – it encompasses Communism, Capitalism, and a whole host of other descriptions of the way things ebb and flow.
Its a WORD, dummy. Open your eyes and shut up.
Smoke a Cuban cigar. Read Marx. Read Ayn Rand – she was a communist and didnt even know it.
Or was she a Lesbian? Who cares.
I propose that mentioning Communism is the the same as calling someone a Nazi – it essentially means that intelligent discussion is over.
As for Steve Jobs, he wisely noticed that failure is the start of success – its the Ebb and Flow, baby, the Ebb and the Flow.
Feel it. Love it. Dig it. Embrace it.
Why do brainwashed fools call the notion of wealth being shared Communism?
Do you blasted nitwits not see that the whole frickin PLANET is a ‘Community’ of Flora and Fauna?
Wealth is with the Robber Baron, then taken away by the mob at the Palace gates.
Its life – it encompasses Communism, Capitalism, and a whole host of other descriptions of the way things ebb and flow.
Its a WORD, dummy. Open your eyes and shut up.
Smoke a Cuban cigar. Read Marx. Read Ayn Rand – she was a communist and didnt even know it.
Or was she a Lesbian? Who cares.
I propose that mentioning Communism is the the same as calling someone a Nazi – it essentially means that intelligent discussion is over.
As for Steve Jobs, he wisely noticed that failure is the start of success – its the Ebb and Flow, baby, the Ebb and the Flow.
Feel it. Love it. Dig it. Embrace it.
Why do brainwashed fools call the notion of wealth being shared Communism?
Do you blasted nitwits not see that the whole frickin PLANET is a ‘Community’ of Flora and Fauna?
Wealth is with the Robber Baron, then taken away by the mob at the Palace gates.
Its life – it encompasses Communism, Capitalism, and a whole host of other descriptions of the way things ebb and flow.
Its a WORD, dummy. Open your eyes and shut up.
Smoke a Cuban cigar. Read Marx. Read Ayn Rand – she was a communist and didnt even know it.
Or was she a Lesbian? Who cares.
I propose that mentioning Communism is the the same as calling someone a Nazi – it essentially means that intelligent discussion is over.
As for Steve Jobs, he wisely noticed that failure is the start of success – its the Ebb and Flow, baby, the Ebb and the Flow.
Feel it. Love it. Dig it. Embrace it.
Do not trust Apple software implementation of RAID.
About 18 months ago I bought two 500GB external drives with the intent of setting them up in a RAID 1 (mirrored) configuration. I did this to prevent data loss when a primary drive goes bad, which happens too frequently.
A couple weeks ago I started having problems with my RAID set and the volume started to demount without warning. Although my iMac could detect the drives it was not capable or remounting them as a RAID set so I had to reboot the machine to get it to mount properly (annoying).
The Disk Repair utility detected that one of the drives was indeed bad. Not knowing how to proceed I made an appointment with a genius at the local Apple store. He was able to demote the bad disk from the RAID set and then reformat it so that Disk Repair found it good again. But he could find no way to promote it back to the RAID 1 set (thing turned out to be a very good thing). The only thing that could be done was to create a new RAID 1 set with the two drives, which would wipe all the data from both drives in the process.
The genius did say that Apple’s software implementation of RAID was “not very smart” and that if I really wanted to do RAID properly I needed to buy a Mac Pro or an Xserve and get a RAID card installed (I may do this at some point). But for the time being I bought a third 500GB external drive and went home.
As I started to back up data from my good drive I began to notice that it didn’t have all the pictures, music, and other files it should have. After a panic attack, I launched Disk Warrior and scanned the formerly bad reformatted drive (380GB of data took about 7 hours). It turned out that the so-called bad drive actually had all the good data. So I started the recovery process and am still sorting through thousands of duplicate files.
Apple’s software RAID implementation failed me badly! I suggest that Apple deactivate it and tell everyone to use Time Machine instead.
So someone tell me, what happens when your Time Machine drive starts to go bad? It will eventually. Is there a migration solution out there? Anyone? Anyone? Bueller?
Sorry. Wrong thread. My comments were for the “Seattle Times reviews Apple Time Capsule” article.
A RAID array is way too complex for a simple backup requirement.
Modern drives dont fail very often – automated daily backups and backups of important work immediately should suffice for 99% of users.
Apple’s ‘implementation’ of RAID didnt fail you – to blame Apple is a typical response of those with less knowledge than they require.
A 500Gb drive failed in a few months? Unusual. Did you by any chance buy the cheap Western Digital drives that are available at Walmart and Costco?
Forget RAID, its not for consumers – its a Pro app. for Server use, mostly.
If you want 5-10 year archive backups, use DVD discs.
The external drives were brand new LaCie drives I bought at the Apple store. As far as RAID being too complex, I’m no dummy as far as computers are concerned and I think I’m technically knowledgeable enough to handle it. And I don’t really want a consumer solution. I want one that’s reliable. The Apple store genius himself said Apple onw software solution was “not very smart”, his words not mine.
all software raids suck, I am not really a big fan of mirrors anyway. A file corruption is copied equally to both mirrors. If you get a directory corruption it will be copied to both drives. Mirroring is for hard drive failure not for system corruption. This is why you use a backup instead of relying on a mirror as your backup. If I did use a raid it would be a hardware one and you don’t have to get an xserve or a pro, you can buy an external raid system. Here’s one although I don’t care for mac sales return policy.
http://eshop.macsales.com/shop/firewire/usb/raid_1/Gmax
JWSC: “Sorry. Wrong thread”
lol.. well your comments were at least more interesting than the communism vs robber barons nonsense.