“Being the richest man in the cemetery doesn’t matter to me. Going to bed at night saying we’ve done something wonderful, that’s what matters to me.”
There is a reason Steve Jobs is a legend and icon in the world of business, tech and entrepreneurship. He built some of the most revolutionary businesses of our time like Pixar film, NeXT and the world’s most valuable company—Apple Inc. And he did all this without having the most resources initially (Jobs cofounded Apple in his parents’ garage in 1976), the most connections or even the most smarts.
Here is some highlights of an interview of jobs.
One of the keys to apple is apples is incredibly collaborative company. You know how many committees we have at apple?
ZERO
We have no committees we are organized like a start-up. One person is in charge iPhone os software, one person is in charge of MAC hardware, one person is in charge of iPhone hardware engineering, another person is in charge of worldwide marketing, another person is in charge of operations and etc… It’s organized like a start-up, we’re the biggest start-up on the planet and we all meet three hours once a week and we talk about everything we are doing the whole business and there is tremendous teamwork at the top of the company which filters down to tremendous teamwork throughout the company.
Teamwork is dependent on trusting the others folks to come through with their part without watching them all the time, but trusting they are going to come through with their parts and that’s what we do really well and we are great at figuring out how to devide things up into these great teams that we have and all work on same thing touch bases frequently and bring it all together in to a product we do that really well so what I do all day is meet with teams of people and work on ideas and solve problems to make new products to make new marketing programs whatever it is.
Question – are people willing to tell you you’re wrong? Steve – Ya you know we have wonderful arguments.
Question – do you win them all?Steve – oh no I wish I did, I will see you can’t if you want to hire great people and have them stay working for you, you have to make them a lot of decisions and you have to run by ideas not hierarchy. The best idea have to win so otherwise good people don’t stay.
His passion for making a “dent in the universe” and his drive for perfection in everything he touched revolutionized 6 industries; phones, music, animated movies, PCs, tablets and digital publishing.
“Stay hungry. Stay foolish.”
― Steve Jobs
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