Steve Jobs Interview – “You’ve got to be willing to fail”

I’ve actually always found something to
be very true which is most people don’t
get those experiences because they’d
never asked 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 call
I just asked and when people asked me I
try to be as responsive 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
got it you got to 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 whatever if you’re afraid of
failing you won’t get very far