Becoming Steve Jobs : The Evolution of a Reckless Upstart into a Visionary Leader,įact #5 : Steve Jobs Did Not Believe In God.Steve Jobs : The Man Who Thought Different,.He also had many books written about him : There is no mention of such a message in that biography. If Steve Jobs wanted to pass along such a message, he would have done it in that book. Steve Jobs had an official biography written by Walter Isaacson ( Steve Jobs, ISBN 978-1501127625), who was given unprecedented access to his personal life, including over 40 interviews with Steve Jobs himself. “This was when he was home all the time, and I asked when, and he said, ‘Now.’”įact #4 : Steve Jobs’ Last Words Was Never Mentioned In Any Biography “He said, ‘I want to talk to you about something,’ ” remembers Cook. Steve Jobs died at home, not in a hospital. The New York Times noted : The fact that he did indeed die of respiratory arrest is evidence that he was not on artificial respiration.įact #3 : Steve Jobs Did Not Die In A Hospital Unfortunately, it didn’t work out that way.”įinally, if he was really kept alive by a mechanical ventilator, it would have kept him alive. He wouldn’t have died of respiratory arrest, which was the immediate cause of death. Every time I saw him he seemed to be getting better. I went over there often during the week, and sometimes on the weekends. I asked him two or three times, ‘Are you sure you want to do this?’ because I saw him getting better at that point in time. So I said, ‘You mean that if I review an ad and I like it, it should just run without your okay?’ And he laughed and said, ‘Well, I hope you’d at least ask me!’ Let me ask you a question.’ I tried to pick something that would incite him.
“He says, ‘You make all the decisions.’ I go, ‘Wait. “It was an interesting conversation,” Cook says, with a wistful laugh. I asked him, ‘What do you really not want to do that you’re doing?’
I thought then that he thought he was going to live a lot longer when he said this, because we got into a whole level of discussion about what would it mean for me to be CEO with him as a chairman. He told me he had decided that I should be CEO. Treasure Love for your family, love for your spouse, love for your friends. Whichever stage in life we are at right now, with time, we will face the day when the curtain comes down. When a person goes into the operating room, he will realize that there is one book that he has yet to finish reading – Book of Healthy Life. But there is one thing that can never be found when it is lost – Life. You can employ someone to drive the car for you, make money for you but you cannot have someone to bear the sickness for you.
What is the most expensive bed in the world? Sick bed… It is all in your heart and in your hands. That’s the true riches which will follow you, accompany you, giving you strength and light to go on.
What I can bring is only the memories precipitated by love. The wealth I have won in my life I cannot bring with me. God gave us the senses to let us feel the love in everyone’s heart, not the illusions brought about by wealth. Non-stop pursuing of wealth will only turn a person into a twisted being, just like me. Perhaps relationships, perhaps art, perhaps a dream from younger days Should be something that is more important: