Ask for HELP – Steve Jobs Interview

most people don’t get those experiences
because they’d never ask I’ve never
found anybody that didn’t want to help
me if I asked him for help I always call
him up I called up this will date me but
I called up Bill Hewlett when I was 12
years old and he lived in Palo Alto his
number was still in a phonebook and he
answered the phone himself did not yes
hi I’m Steve Jobs I’m 12 years old I’m a
student in high school and I want to
build a frequency counter and I was
wondering if you had any spare parts I
could have and he laughed and he gave me
the spare parts to build his frequency
counter and he gave me a job that summer
in hewlett-packard working on the
assembly line putting nuts and bolts
together on frequency counters he got me
a job in the place that built them and I
was in heaven and I’ve never found
anyone who said no or hung up the phone
when I called
I just asked and when people ask me I
try to be as responsive you know to pay
that that debt of gratitude back most
people never pick up the phone and call
most people never ask and that’s what
separates sometimes the people that do
things from the people that just dream
about them you got it you got an act and
you’ve got to be willing to fail you’ve
got to be willing to crash and burn you
know with people on the phone with
starting a company with whatever if
you’re afraid of failing you won’t get
very far