What Steve Jobs thinks about creativity
American entrepreneur (1955 to 2011); co-founded Apple in 1976 and led it again from 1997 to 2011; ran Pixar from 1986 to 2006.
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1 dated position, 2005, in their own words. Our reading of what Steve Jobs has said — not written or endorsed by them.
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Their wordsI didn’t see it then, but it turned out that getting fired from Apple was the best thing that could have ever happened to me. The heaviness of being successful was replaced by the lightness of being a beginner again, less sure about everything. It freed me to enter one of the most creative periods of my life.
↗Steve Jobs, Stanford commencement address (Stanford News, 12 June 2005): prepared textweb.archive.org 2nd of 7 in this piece