Sometimes we need to remember that we don’t always need to go it alone to be successful. “I've never found anyone that didn't want to help me if I asked them for help. I called up Bill Hewlett (co-founder of Hewlett-Packard) when I was 12 years old. ‘Hi, I'm Steve Jobs. I'm 12 years old. I'm a student in high school. I want to build a frequency counter, and I was wondering if you have any spare parts I could have.’ He laughed, and he gave me the spare parts, and he gave me a job that summer at Hewlett-Packard ... and I was in heaven.
Most people never pick up the phone and call. Most people never ask ... and that's what separates, sometimes, the people who do things from the people who just dream about them.”
- Steve Jobs
@AskTheDevil @Gambit_1 Yeah well, just wait until you discover HP's instant ink scam.
@JolieSaboteuse @Gambit_1 Oh, I noticed.
@AskTheDevil @Gambit_1 "We will send you an ink cartridge every THREE fucking years, suckers!"
@AskTheDevil naw, Jobs was privileged from the start, which is part of the reason he COULD call HP, so he would’ve ended where he did either way. But I still think that as a society we need to shift away from thinking success can only be found alone. In fact, contrary to our biggest societal myth, success is never something one person does alone.
@Gambit_1 I agree with that.
@Gambit_1 To those who like that saccharine footsteps thing with the "you weren't walking alone, I was carrying you."
You did it on your own. Those were your feet. God didn't carry you, he just gave you a world where you can develop feet.
If you feel like you were held by God when you walked along, it was the "god" that is _you_ that did it. You just needed Dumbo's little feather to believe in yourself.
You already had the gifts before you were born.
@Gambit_1 And that's how Mr. Hewlett helped mentor someone who would grow up to be a total greedy piece of entitled crap that create a giant bloated evil corporation that hurts people, the economy, the environment, and innovation.
Thank's for the scourge on humanity, Bill. It'll go great with the printer ink that costs as much as plutonium.