The best quotes from arguably America's greatest entrepreneur and ex-CEO...

Here's another article about Jobs that's relevant and motivating to us entrepreneurs:

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Steve Jobs' announcement that he is stepping down as chief executive of Apple is not surprising. He's a very sick man, and running the world's largest technology firm in market capitalization can't be easy for someone with pancreatic cancer and who knows what other ailments.

Lots of digital ink will be spilled about Jobs, most of it focusing on his truly marvelous successes.

It's better to focus on his failures.

Jobs failed better than anyone else in Silicon Valley, maybe better than anyone in corporate America. By that I mean Jobs did what only the greatest entrepreneurs can do: learn from their failures. I don't mean learn from their mistakes. I mean learn from their abject, humiliating, bonehead, epic fails.

Everyone today thinks of Jobs as the genius who gave us the iPod, the MacBook, the iTunes store, the iPhone, the iPad, and so on. Yes, he transformed personal computing and multimedia. But let's not forget what else Jobs did.

Jobs (with Steve Wozniak) brought us the Apple I and Apple II computers, early iterations of which sold in the mere hundreds and were complete failures. Not until the floppy disk was introduced and sufficient RAM added did the Apple II take off as a product.

Jobs was the architect of Lisa, introduced in the early 1980s. You remember Lisa, don't you? Of course you don't. This computer, which cost tens of millions of dollars to develop, was another epic failure.

Apple tossed Jobs aside, and he went on to found NeXT Computer, which was a big nothing-burger of a company. Its greatest success was that it was purchased by Apple - paving the way for the serial failure Jobs to return to his natural home.

Jobs is a great entrepreneur for another reason. Lots of ninnies can give customers products they want. Jobs gave people products they didn't know they wanted, and then made those products indispensable to their lives.

I didn't know I needed the ability to read the Wall Street Journal on a handsome handheld device at my breakfast table, on the Metro, on the Acela, or in any Starbucks I entered. But Steve Jobs did. I didn't know I wanted to mix and match my music collection on a computer and take it with me wherever I went, but Steve Jobs did. I didn't know I wanted a portable multimedia platform that would permit my kids and me to hurl angry birds out of a slingshot at thieving pigs. But Steve Jobs did.

All those successes were made possible by failure after failure after failure and the lessons