What Steve Jobs thinks about patience

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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. 12 Jun 2005

   Our readingYou can only understand the path of a life looking backward, so the dots have to be trusted to connect in the future: trust in something, whether gut, destiny or karma.

   Their wordsAgain, you can’t connect the dots looking forward; you can only connect them looking backward. 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.

   ↗Steve Jobs, Stanford commencement address (Stanford News, 12 June 2005): prepared textweb.archive.org 1st of 7 in this piece