Steve Jobs Impact On The World Of The Technology Industry

Lessons Learned Steve Jobs had a huge impact on the world of technology and the way people think to this day. Jobs’s life lessons and innovations impacted consumers of the technology industry, business leaders, and anyone trying succeed in what they do by showing them to love what you do, take risks, and never settle for anything short of greatness. Steve Jobs taught people many lessons throughout his life that can be used by any person whether they are in the technology industry or just an average office worker. One lesson that Steve Jobs taught is to love what you do. During Jobs’s Stanford commencement address he said, “You’ve got to find what you love. And that is as true for your work as it is for your lovers. Your work is going to fill …show more content…
In the same speech that Jobs told people to love what they do, he told them not to settle. “Don’t settle.” (Friedman). These are the words from jobs telling hundreds of students from Stanford to never settle unless it is what they love and have passion for. Some people thought Steve Jobs was crazy for what he wanted throughout his career in apple. A newspaper writer, Christina Paterson said, “He wanted the impossible, and was somehow able to convince everyone that the impossible was possible.” (Paterson). Steve Jobs wanted to change people’s minds in what they want to buy and he did that through his smart marketing strategies. This lesson teaches people not to settle, that they need to go out and give it all they got, it also allowed Apple users to get great products from Jobs when he was innovating because of his strive for greatness. The challenges to this lesson are that not settling for anything short of greatness can be very time consuming and you may have to take a few risks but Jobs showed us it can be …show more content…
Jobs took risks because his heart told him it was right. He stated, “Have the courage to follow your heart and intuition. They somehow already know what you truly want to become. Everything else is secondary.” (Friedman).Jobs is saying that when you have a feeling that you need to do something, follow that need and go through with it, take risks. Steve Jobs took risks like getting rid of the floppy drive, removing the Power PC in favor of Intel processors, and the transition to Mac OS X while pulling them off. Also innovating products that many would say were ahead of their time and doomed to fail. Jobs stated that, "customers don't know what they want until we've shown them” (Nath). Steve Jobs was saying that you need to take risks for the customers to want something by innovating and creating new products. People learning to take risks helps them because it teaches people to be successful, you’re going have to take a risk in your life sometime. Steve Jobs’s ability to pull off risks allows Mac users to have confidence when a change is going to