Steve Jobs Retires: Five Lessons to Learn from Apple’s Great CEO

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By David Magee | August 24, 2011 7:48 PM EDT

Steve Jobs has resigned as Apple’s leader. The move has been speculated because of questions over Jobs’ health. He was diagnosed with a rare form of pancreatic cancer in 2004 and underwent a liver transplant two years ago.

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Technology Leads to Prosperity

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Microsoft founder Bill Gates opened his speech to a crowd of 3,000 people in Jakarta, Indonesia, on Friday by exploring the rapid changes of Information and Communication Technology (ICT).

Gates cited the global growth in the number of personal computers (PCs) available, up from 241 million in 1996 to 1.1 billion in 2008, in the number of broadband bandwidth subscribers, up from 0.1 million in 1996 to 264 million in 2006, and in the percentage of cellular subscribers, up from only 1 percent in 1994 to 41 percent in 2006.

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Bill Gates speech at a high school- 11 Things Kids Will Not Learn in School


Bill Gates recently gave a speech at a high school about 11 things they did not and will not learn in school. He talks about how feel-good, politically correct teachings created a generation of kids with no concept of reality and how this concept sets them up for failure in the real world.

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Speech at Harvard by Bill Gates

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Microsoft chairman Bill Gates delivers the Commencement address at Harvard University in Cambridge, Massachusetts. Photo: Brian Snyder

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Text of the speech given by Microsoft chairman Bill Gates at Harvard University on June 7, 2007.

President Bok, former President Rudenstine, incoming President Faust, members of the Harvard Corporation and the Board of Overseers, members of the faculty, parents, and especially, the graduates:

I’ve been waiting more than 30 years to say this: “Dad, I always told you I’d come back and get my degree.”

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Pidato Larry Ellison- CEO Oracle di Yale University 2000

larry-ellison-oraclePidato Larry Ellison, CEO oracle saat diundang pada wisuda Universitas Yale tahun 2000 (pada saat mana beliau pada tahun itu adalah terkaya nomor 2, dibawah Bill gate).

” Lulusan Yale University, saya minta maaf bila anda telah mengalami prolog seperti sebelumnya, namun saya ingin anda melakukan untuk diri anda sendiri. Tolong lihatlah disekeliling anda dengan baik. Lihatlah teman sebelah kiri anda. Lihatlah teman sebelah kanan anda. Sekarang pikirkan ini : 5 tahun dari sekarang, 10 tahun dari sekarang, bahkan 30 tahun dari sekarang. Kemungkinannya adalah orang yang disebelah kiri anda akan menjadi pecundang. Orang disebelah kanan anda juga akan menjadi pecundang. Dan anda di tengah ? Apa yang anda harapkan? Pecundang, pecundang, cum laude pecundang.

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Pidato Steve Jobs di Acara Wisuda Stanford University: “Stay Hungry. Stay Foolish”

steve_jobsSaya merasa bangga di tengah-tengah Anda sekarang, yang akan segera lulus dari salah satu universitas terbaik di dunia. Saya tidak pernah selesai kuliah. Sejujurnya, baru saat inilah saya merasakan suasana wisuda. Hari ini saya akan menyampaikan tiga cerita pengalaman hidup saya. Ya, tidak perlu banyak. Cukup tiga.

Cerita Pertama: Menghubungkan Titik-Titik
Saya drop out (DO) dari Reed College setelah semester pertama, namun saya tetap berkutat di situ sampai 18 bulan kemudian, sebelum betul-betul putus kuliah. Mengapa saya DO? Kisahnya dimulai sebelum saya lahir. Ibu kandung saya adalah mahasiswi belia yang hamil karena “kecelakaan” dan memberikan saya kepada seseorang untuk diadopsi.

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