Steve Jobs may no longer be with us, but Apple's co-founder continues to make a lasting impact that will last for generations. In a classic 1994 interview, Jobs illustrated an uncommon habit found in the most successful people:
Most people never pick up the phone and call. Most people never ask, and that's what separates the people who do things from the people who just dream about them.
Jobs explains in the interview that, at the age of 12, he mustered up the courage to call up none other than Bill Hewlett, the co-founder of Hewlett-Packard. The ask? "I want to build a frequency counter, and I was wondering if you have any spare parts I could have," said Jobs. Amused at the boldness of the boy on the other end of the line, Hewlett laughed and gave Jobs the spare parts. Oh, and a summer job at HP. Jobs said, "I was in heaven." Read More |