I think this quotation (which I liked when I read it at the end of the biography, and which made me think of you at the time) strikes a bit of a sore point.
In the end, some things we do for money and others for love. I think Steve Jobs saw himself as someone who almost always did things for love. He saw making money as simply being a way to fund the next project (which is how artists in general feel).
It's interesting that your response to this quotation is:
"Steve's problem with selling seemed to be that you're shirking work by doing it."
I think that's part of it, but the other part is that you're not doing what you're doing with the right frame of mind.
"A lot of people who sell startups go on to do other things, and often bigger things."
Why is "bigger" in this sentence rather than some other word? "Better" for example.
One of my favorite quotations in the book comes from Larry Ellison. He says he was complaining to Steve Jobs that his plan for turning Apple around (the reverse takeover of NeXT) wasn't going to make either of them nearly as much money as his plan (buying Apple and giving Steve 25%) would and Jobs replied (from memory, so it's probably inaccurate): "That's why you need to have me as a friend, Larry. You don't need any more money."
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I think this quotation (which I liked when I read it at the end of the biography, and which made me think of you at the time) strikes a bit of a sore point.
In the end, some things we do for money and others for love. I think Steve Jobs saw himself as someone who almost always did things for love. He saw making money as simply being a way to fund the next project (which is how artists in general feel).
It's interesting that your response to this quotation is:
"Steve's problem with selling seemed to be that you're shirking work by doing it."
I think that's part of it, but the other part is that you're not doing what you're doing with the right frame of mind.
"A lot of people who sell startups go on to do other things, and often bigger things."
Why is "bigger" in this sentence rather than some other word? "Better" for example.
One of my favorite quotations in the book comes from Larry Ellison. He says he was complaining to Steve Jobs that his plan for turning Apple around (the reverse takeover of NeXT) wasn't going to make either of them nearly as much money as his plan (buying Apple and giving Steve 25%) would and Jobs replied (from memory, so it's probably inaccurate): "That's why you need to have me as a friend, Larry. You don't need any more money."