Top 5 Steve Jobs’ Brilliant Advice For Young People
Stay Hungry. Stay Foolish.
- Steve Jobs
Perhaps one of the best advice I was given as a child. What the phrase “Stay hungry, stay foolish” meant for me was astronomical. Whenever I would go off my path, these words would echo in my mind “Stay Hungry. Stay Foolish”. Thank you Steve. Stay Hungry — Never be satisfied, always push yourself. Stay Foolish — Do (or be willing to keep trying) the things people say cannot be done.
Here are my TOP 5 Steve Jobs quotes/brilliant advice for young people (in no particular order):
I always advise people — Don’t wait! Do something when you are young, when you have nothing to lose, and keep that in mind.
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That’s why we started Apple, we said you know, we have absolutely nothing to lose. I was 20 years old at the time, Woz was 24–25, so we have nothing to lose. We have no families, no children, no houses. Woz had an old car. I had a Volkswagen van, I mean, all we were going to lose is our cars and the shirts off our back. We he had everything to gain. And we figured even if we crash and burn, and lose everything, the experience will have been worth ten times the cost.
Don’t take it all too seriously. If you want to live your life in a creative way, as an artist, you have to not look back too much. You have to be willing to take whatever you’ve done and whoever you were and throw them away.
We’re three quotes in, and learning so much. But the two quotes left are among the most powerful motivational speeches I’ve heard in my life. One is a commercial for Apple, featuring Einstein, Picasso, etc. and it goes like this:
“Here’s to the crazy ones. The misfits. The rebels. The troublemakers. The round pegs in the square holes. The ones who see things differently. They’re not fond of rules, and they have no respect for the status quo. You can quote them, disagree with them, glorify and vilify them. About the only thing you can’t do is ignore them because they change things. They push the human race forward. And while some may see them as crazy, we see genius. Because the people who are crazy enough to think they can change the world, are the ones who do.”
I said this would be in no particular order, but Steve Jobs is a hero of mine, he has changed my life in so many ways, therefor I had to keep my favorite speech for the end of this article. Steve Jobs’ 2005 Stanford Commencement Address:
You can’t connect the dots looking forward; you can only connect them looking backwards. So you have to trust that the dots will somehow connect in your future. You have to trust in something — your gut, destiny, life, karma, whatever. This approach has never let me down, and it has made all the difference in my life.
After all, we’re here to put a dent in the universe. Otherwise, why even be here?
