Steve Jobs (1955—2011)

“Remembering that you are going to die is the best way I know to avoid the trap of thinking you have something to lose.”
Steve Jobs

“I 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. During the next five years, I started a company called NeXT, another company named PIXAR, and fell in love with an amazing woman who would become my wife. PIXAR went on to create the worlds first computer animation feature film, Toy Story, and is now the most successful animation studio in the world.”
Steve Jobs 2005 Stanford Commencement Speech