All About Steve Jobs
Steve Jobs was born on February 24, 1955. He unfortunately passed away on October 5, 2011. He is 56 years old. He was born in San Francisco California to Joanne Schieble and Abdulfattah Jandali. When he was just a little baby his parents gave him unnamed up for adoption. He was then adopted by Clara and Paul Jobs and named Steven Jobs. As a boy Steve Jobs and his father would work on electronics in their garage.Steve was very interested in the electronics and working with them became his hobby. While he was in elementary school he was so smart and tested very well. Because of this he was asked to skip to high school, but his parents declined. Soon he got older and made his way to Homestead high school. Soon after he started high school he met a man in college Steve Wozniak. They became partners very soon because they were both interested in technology and electronics. They worked together and made new things. He started taking creativity classes and came up with new ideas and ways to make things. Later on he got older and he started the Apple company. He also married a women named Laurene Powell and had children named Lisa Brennan Jobs, Reed Jobs, Erin Slena Jobs, and Eve Jobs. He lived with his wife and Reed, Erin, and Eve. Lisa lived with her mother because Laurene Powell was not her mother. Steve Jobs had her with another women. He was a private man and did not give much information about his family. He loved them and cared for them.
Major Accomplishments
1. Created Apple
2. Overcame Cancer
3 Interesting Facts
1. In elementary school he was a prankster.
2. He went to Reed college but dropped out after 6 months.
3. At age 13 he called Bill Helwet and got a summer job at HP.
Quotes
" Things don't have to change the world to be important." -Steve Jobs. I chose this quote because not everyone can change the world. Its one out of a million people that actually get the chance to shine and change the world. So what ever your doing does not have to change the world as long as its good and you work hard at it then it is important. " Its not a faith in technology, its faith in people." -Steve Jobs I chose this quote because he is saying that there are no facts about how good technology is. You can't say this is the best technology in the world as a fact because people are always going to have a different opinion. So they don't depend on the technology they depend on the peoples opinions. The last quote I chose is, " You know my main reaction to this money thing is humorous, all the attention to it because it is hardly the most insightful or valuable thing that's happened to me." - Steve Jobs. I chose this quote because Steve Jobs was very wealthy but he did not need money to be happy. He worked very hard and became something big because he put his heart to it not because he wanted to have a lot of money.
Accomplishments
Steve Jobs was a very successful man so he had many achievements. One achievement he had, his biggest, was creating Apple. I chose this accomplishment because he worked very hard to get what he wanted. That is a great lesson because you are not going to be something big by sitting around and doing nothing. He had some ideas about the company and thought very hard about it. He dropped out of college and used all his free time inventing electronics. He soon wanted to make a company. He made the company in 1976. Apple started off small and got bigger and bigger because their devices were so good and convenient that everybody wanted them. Apples devices became some of the best in the world. Apple is now a very successful company and it is very popular. Another accomplishment he had was he survived through Pancreatic Cancer. I chose this accomplishment because it shows that just because people are very famous and wealthy does not mean they live perfect lives. He had a cancer tumor but he still worked hard. He still tried his best in everything. He did not want to have surgery at first. After a couple of months of having it he finally decided to have the surgery and he was all better. Steve Jobs had many achievements like the ones above because he always worked hard and tried his best.
Conclusion
Steve Jobs was very smart and tried really hard. Those were the two reasons he was so successful. He was one of the lucky people who got to change the world. He did it in a great way. He created some of the best technology world wide. People around the world use Apple products. I learned so many things from him, I hope you did too.
