While a lot of people will be dressing up as Batman or Heath Ledger’s Joker, why not try something different and dress up as Apple founder and CEO Steve Jobs. Steve Jobs was the CEO of Apple and was the man behind innovative products such as the iPhone and iPad. He co-founded Apple Inc. with Steve Wozniak in 1976. He also co-founded Pixar and NeXT. He was a man admired by many people around the world. Unfortunately, he died on October 5, 2011, at age 56, from pancreatic cancer. He was survived by his wife of twenty years, Laurene Powell, and four children.
Major Milestones in Steve Jobs’ life:
1995 – Executive producer of Toy Story
Dressing up as Steve Jobs this Halloween it is a great way to honor a true innovator and is really easy. Many people have called him the Thomas Edison of his generation.
There was a movie about him called ‘Jobs’ released in 2013 and it starred Ashton Kutcher as Steve Jobs. It covers his entire professional career. The movie received mixed reviews. A much better about Steve Jobs called ‘Steve Jobs’ was released on October 28, 2015 and it starred Michael Fassbender as Steve Jobs. It covered three major events in his professional life including the . The movie has gotten great reviews.
After he came back as CEO of Apple, Steve Jobs wore the same thing in nearly all of his public appearances. He came up with this idea after meeting the CEO of a Japanese company and asking why all of his employees wore the same thing. He told him that he wanted his employees to feel bonded to the company that they were working for. Steve Jobs decided to implement this idea at Apple and wanted his employees to wear a uniform to get the same feeling about their company. However, his employees really hated the idea. But Jobs wanted a uniform for himself anyway and decided to wear the same thing everyday. This article explains why he always wore the same outfit in public. http://www.sfweekly.com/thesnitch/2011/10/12/steve-jobs-explains-why-he-always-wore-a-black-turtleneck So even though he did not have any superpowers his look is really distinctive. All of your friends will know who you are when you enter the room. Fortunately, all of the elements of his wardrobe can be easily found at any retail store or thrift shop such as Goodwill or the Salvation Army.
A Steve Jobs costume consists of the following elements:
*balding hairline with streaks of gray in his hair
*wire-rimmed glasses
*straight cut blue denim jeans
*plain black mock turtleneck sweater
*grey New Balance cross-training sneakers (also known as trainers)
*iPhone or iPad
Steve Jobs best quotes:
When I was 17, I read a quote that went something like: “If you live each day as if it was your last, some day you’ll most certainly be right.” It made an impression on me, and since then, for the past 33 years, I have looked in the mirror every morning and asked myself: “If today were the last day of my life, would I want to do what I am about to do today?” And whenever the answer has been “no” for too many days in a row, I know I need to change something.
I’m as proud of many of the things we haven’t done as the things we have done. Innovation is saying no to a thousand things.
Sometimes when you innovate, you make mistakes. It is best to admit them quickly, and get on with improving your other innovations.
I’m not dismissing the value of higher education; I’m simply saying it comes at the expense of experience.
The greatest artists like Dylan, Picasso and Newton risked failure. And if we want to be great, we’ve got to risk it too.
How does somebody know what they want if they haven’t even seen it?
I would rather gamble on our vision than make a ‘me, too’ product.
When you grow up you tend to get told the world is the way it is and you’re life is just to live your life inside the world. Try not to bash into the walls too much. Try to have a nice family life, have fun, save a little money. That’s a very limited life. Life can be much broader once you discover one simple fact: And that is everything around you that you call life was made up by people that were no smarter than you and you can change it, you can influence it, you can build your own things that other people can use. Once you learn that, you’ll never be the same again.
Here’s to the crazy ones. The misfits. The rebels. The trouble-makers. The round pegs in the square holes. The ones who see things differently…they change things. They push the human race forward. And while some may see them as the crazy ones, we see genius.
We’ve got to make the small things unforgettable.
You’ve got to have a problem that you want to solve; a wrong that you want to right.
It [what you choose to do] has got to be something that you’re passionate about because otherwise you won’t have the perseverance to see it through.
In your life you only get to do so many things and right now we’ve chosen to do this, so let’s make it great.
Design is not what it looks and feels like. Design is how it works.
I think if you do something and it turns out pretty good, then you should go do something else wonderful, not dwell on it for too long. Just figure out what’s next.
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. It freed me to enter one of the most creative periods of my life.
Quality is more important than quantity. One home run is much better than two doubles.
I’m convinced that about half of what separates successful entrepreneurs from the non-successful ones is pure perseverance.
Creativity is just connecting things. When you ask creative people how they did something, they feel a little guilty because they didn’t really do it, they just saw something. It seemed obvious to them after a while.
It’s really hard to design products by focus groups. A lot of times, people don’t know what they want until you show it to them.
Remembering that you are going to die is the best way I know to avoid the trap of thinking you have something to lose. You are already naked. There is no reason not to follow your heart.
Your time is limited, so don’t waste it living someone else’s life. Don’t be trapped by dogma — which is living with the results of other people’s thinking. Don’t let the noise of others’ opinions drown out your own inner voice. And most important, have the courage to follow your heart and intuition. They somehow already know what you truly want to become. Everything else is secondary.
You can’t connect the dots looking forward; you can only connect them looking backwards. So you have to trust that the dots will somehow connect in your future. You have to trust in something — your gut, destiny, life, karma, whatever. This approach has never let me down, and it has made all the difference in my life.
Your work is going to fill a large part of your life, and the only way to be truly satisfied is to do what you believe is great work. And the only way to do great work is to love what you do. If you haven’t found it yet, keep looking. Don’t settle. As with all matters of the heart, you’ll know when you find it. And, like any great relationship, it just gets better and better as the years roll on. So keep looking until you find it. Don’t settle.
Being the richest man in the cemetery doesn’t matter to me. Going to bed at night saying we’ve done something wonderful. That’s what matters to me.
Innovation distinguishes between a leader and a follower.
Design is not just what it looks like and feels like. Design is how it works.
It’s really hard to design products by focus groups. A lot of times, people don’t know what they want until you show it to them.
Sometimes life is going to hit you in the head with a brick. Don’t lose faith.
You can’t just ask customers what they want and then try to give that to them. By the time you get it built, they’ll want something new.
Things don’t have to change the world to be important.
Sometimes when you innovate, you make mistakes. It is best to admit them quickly, and get on with improving your other innovations.
Being the richest man in the cemetery doesn’t matter to me. Going to bed at night saying we’ve done something wonderful, that’s what matters to me.
Be a yardstick of quality. Some people aren’t used to an environment where excellence is expected.
I want to put a ding in the universe.
