Whenever the name of the most influential entrepreneurs of the world is taken, a name definitely comes, and that name is STEVE JOBS. He is the co-founder of APPLE, He is an entrepreneur, inventor and businessman, but he is also a motivational speaker.
During his speech at Stanford he told one of his story:
He told that how he was fired from his own company, I started Apple in my parents' garage when I was 20 years old. We worked very hard and in 10 years Apple grew from two people to a company of $2 Billion and 4000 people. We just released our best creation Macintosh a year ago, I turned thirty and I was fired from the company.
How can you be fire from the company you have created?
Well, as the company grew, we hired such a talented man, whom I thought he would run the company with me, for the first year everything went well, but then there were differences between us regarding the future vision of the company. The matter reached the Board of Directors, and they supported it, so at thirty, I was fired.
That was really upsetting. I realized that by accepting all this. I met David Packard and Bob Noyce and apologized to them for letting things go like this. I even thought of leaving the valley but slowly I realized that I am still passionate about the work. Because of what happened at Apple, my passion has not diminished in the slightest.
I have been rejected, but I still love my work. So I thought of starting all over again. I was once again feeling very free because of this freedom, I was able to enter the most creative period of my life. In the next five years, I started a company NeXT and another company Pixar and during this time I met a very amazing lady, who later became my wife. Pixar created the world's first computer animated movie, “Toy Story”, and is currently the most successful animation studio in the world.
Apple took an unexpected step and bought the NeXT and I went back to Apple. Today Apple uses technology developed by NeXT….Now Lorene and I have a beautiful family. I can say with absolute certainty that if I had not been fired from Apple, all this would not have happened to me. It was a bitter medicine. Sometimes life hits you like this. Don't lose your faith. You need to know what you really like to do.
Keep looking for your love job. Keep searching…don't stop and once you find, work hard on that and you will be successful.