The following quotes are all from Steve Job’s Speech at Stanford University:
It turned out that getting fired by Apple was the best thing that
could ever have happened to me. The heaviness of being successful was
replaced by the lightness of being a beginner, less sure about
everything. It freed me to enter one of the most creative periods of my
life.
Sometimes life hits you in the head with a brick.Â
I’m convinced that the only thing that kept me going was that I loved
what I did. Your work is going to fill a large part of your life,
and the only way to be truly satisfied is to do what you believe is
great work. And the only way to do great work is to love what you do.
Don’t settle [for less]. As with all matters of the heart, you’ll know
when you find it.
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
other’s opinions drown out your own inner voice. And most important,
have the courage to follow your heart and intuition. They some how
already know what you truly want. Everything else is secondary.
On
the back cover of the final issue [of The Whole Earth Catalog] was a
photograph of an early morning country road, the kind you might find
yourself hitchhiking on if you were so adventurous. Beneath it were the
words: ‘Stay Hungry. Stay Foolish.’. It was their farewell message as
they signed off. Stay Hungry. Stay Foolish. And I have always wished
that for myself. And now, as you graduate, I wish that for you.
Stay Hungry. Stay Foolish.
(via Tom Peters)
