SJOBS/Gates Flashcards
SJOBS PT 1
As the news that tech revolutionary Steve Jobs had died spread across the Internet Wednesday night, many people abstained from posting their own tributes to the Apple co-founder.
Instead, they shared Jobs’ own words:
“Remembering that you are going to die is the best way I know to avoid the trap of thinking you have something to lose,” media mogul Arianna Huffington wrote on her Twitter feed, quoting Jobs’ 2005 commencement address at Stanford University.
SJOBS PT 2
Jobs: ‘You’ve got to find what you love’ Among Jobs’ other memorable quotes circulating social media sites and blogs on Wednesday night were these:
– “Your time is limited, so don’t waste it living someone else’s life.”
– “Have the courage to follow your heart and intuition. They somehow already know what you truly want to become.”
– “Death is very likely the single best invention of Life. It is Life’s change agent. It clears out the old to make way for the new.”
– “We’re here to put a dent in the universe.”
Gates PT 1
Do you believe in God?
I agree with people like Richard Dawkins that mankind felt the need for creation myths. Before we really began to understand disease and the weather and things like that, we sought false explanations for them. Now science has filled in some of the realm – not all – that religion used to fill. But the mystery and the beauty of the world is overwhelmingly amazing, and there’s no scientific explanation of how it came about. To say that it was generated by random numbers, that does seem, you know, sort of an uncharitable view [laughs]. I think it makes sense to believe in God, but exactly what decision in your life you make differently because of it, I don’t know.
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Gates PT 2
You’re a technologist, but a lot of your work now with the foundation has a moral dimension. Has your thinking about the value of religion changed over the years?
The moral systems of religion, I think, are superimportant. We’ve raised our kids in a religious way; they’ve gone to the Catholic church that Melinda goes to and I participate in. I’ve been very lucky, and therefore I owe it to try and reduce the inequity in the world. And that’s kind of a religious belief. I mean, it’s at least a moral belief.
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Gates PT 3
When you look on the horizon over the next 50 years, what is your biggest fear?
I think we will get our act together on climate change. That’s very important. I hope we get our act together on large-scale terrorism and avoid that being a huge setback for the world. On health equity, we can reduce the number of poor children who die from more than 6 million down to 2 million, eventually 1 million. Will the U.S. political system right itself in terms of how it focuses on complex problems? Will the medical costs overwhelm the sense of what people expect government to do?
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Peculiar traits of rich people PT 1
“A miser grows rich by seeming poor,” poet William Shenstone wrote. “An extravagant man grows poor by seeming rich.” I don’t think it’s any more complicated than that.
Peculiar traits of rich people PT 2
I’m convinced that nearly every rich person has the characteristics of a sociopath. Not in a cruel, soulless way. But sociopaths can disregard emotional events that cause normal people to worry and panic. Great investors can do that, too. They can watch stocks fall 50% and shrug their shoulders or see 10 million people lose their jobs and remain unshakably calm.
The price of being rich?
The price of being rich is really simple: You must live below your means.
Peculiar traits of rich people PT 3
The reason so many Americans are in dire financial shape is because their aspirations, desires, and wants have grown faster than their incomes. That’s why the size of the median home has increased by 30% over the last 25 years while the median income has barely budged. For every $1 raise most people receive, their desires grow by perhaps $1.10. This is the express lane to disappointment.
If you want success, figure out the price, THEN ?
If you want success, figure out the price, then pay it. It sounds trivial and obvious, but if you unpack the idea it has extraordinary power.”
