This blog is created to honour the end of my Nationals Inter-School Canoe Championship 2009 and the end of a Canoeist Career in Junior College.
The 1st few post will be dedicated towards the setting up of this blog and will convey my thoughts and feeling over the 4 days event to honour the Sports
which I really believe in, fought for, bleed for and gave my life to.
Steve Job lectures
Tuesday, April 24, 2012 @ 9:15 AM
The biggest joy I have in life is the day where I started picking up a book. That opens my world to knowledge and wisdom from lessons of finer man.
Steve Jobs Lectures:
Misplaced Values
You know, my main reaction to this money thing is that it’s humorous, all the attention to it, be- cause it’s hardly the most insightful or valuable thing that’s happened to me in the past ten years. But it makes me feel old, sometimes, when I speak at a campus and I find that what students are most in awe of is the fact that I’m a millionaire.
I was worth about over a million dollars when
I was twenty-three and over ten million dollars when I was twenty-four, and over a hundred mil- lion dollars when I was twenty-five, and it wasn’t important because I never did it for the money.
they share a quality about the way they look at life, which is that the journey is the reward. They really want to see this product out in the world. It’s more important than their personal lives right now.
You know, my main reaction to this money thing is that it’s humorous, all the attention to it, be- cause it’s hardly the most insightful or valuable thing that’s happened to me in the past ten years. But it makes me feel old, sometimes, when I speak at a campus and I find that what students are most in awe of is the fact that I’m a millionaire.
Money
Innovation has nothing to do with how many R&D dollars you have. When Apple came up with the Mac, IBM was spending at least 100 times more on R&D. It’s not about money. It’s about the people you have, how you’re led, and how much you get it.... Rarely do I find an important product or service in people’s lives where you don’t have at least two competitors. Apple is positioned beauti- fully to be that second competitor. —CNNMoney/Fortune, November 9, 1998
Innovation has nothing to do with how many R&D dollars you have. When Apple came up with the Mac, IBM was spending at least 100 times more on R&D. It’s not about money. It’s about the people you have, how you’re led, and how much you get it.... Rarely do I find an important product or service in people’s lives where you don’t have at least two competitors. Apple is positioned beauti- fully to be that second competitor. —CNNMoney/Fortune, November 9, 1998
I was worth about over a million dollars when
I was twenty-three and over ten million dollars when I was twenty-four, and over a hundred mil- lion dollars when I was twenty-five, and it wasn’t important because I never did it for the money.
they share a quality about the way they look at life, which is that the journey is the reward. They really want to see this product out in the world. It’s more important than their personal lives right now.
Motivation
To former PepsiCo executive John Sculley, whom Jobs was trying to woo to Apple: Do you want to spend the rest of your life selling sugared water, or do you want a chance to change the world?
—Odyssey: Pepsi to Apple, 1987
It’s better to be a pirate than to join the Navy. —Odyssey: Pepsi to Apple, 1987
To former PepsiCo executive John Sculley, whom Jobs was trying to woo to Apple: Do you want to spend the rest of your life selling sugared water, or do you want a chance to change the world?
—Odyssey: Pepsi to Apple, 1987
It’s better to be a pirate than to join the Navy. —Odyssey: Pepsi to Apple, 1987
Product Imagination
It’s not about pop culture, and it’s not about fool- ing people, and it’s not about convincing people that they want something they don’t. We figure out what we want. And I think we’re pretty good at having the right discipline to think through whether a lot of other people are going to want it, too. That’s what we get paid to do. So you can’t go out and ask people, you know, what’s the next big [thing]? There’s a great quote by Henry Ford who said, “If I’d have asked my customers what they wanted, they would have told me ‘A faster horse.”
It’s not about pop culture, and it’s not about fool- ing people, and it’s not about convincing people that they want something they don’t. We figure out what we want. And I think we’re pretty good at having the right discipline to think through whether a lot of other people are going to want it, too. That’s what we get paid to do. So you can’t go out and ask people, you know, what’s the next big [thing]? There’s a great quote by Henry Ford who said, “If I’d have asked my customers what they wanted, they would have told me ‘A faster horse.”
To Be or Not to Be
Your time is limited, so don’t waste it living some- one else’s life. Don’t be trapped by dogma—which is living with the results of other people’s think- ing. Don’t let the noise of others’ opinions drown our your own inner voice. And most important, have the courage to follow your heart and intui- tion. They somehow already know what you truly want to become. Everything else is secondary.
Your time is limited, so don’t waste it living some- one else’s life. Don’t be trapped by dogma—which is living with the results of other people’s think- ing. Don’t let the noise of others’ opinions drown our your own inner voice. And most important, have the courage to follow your heart and intui- tion. They somehow already know what you truly want to become. Everything else is secondary.