An American visionary has left us.\u00a0 Although I never had the opportunity to meet Steve, I did study him throughout my career.<\/p>\n

It’s ok to start a business in the garage.<\/strong>\u00a0 In the mid-1970s, small computers were just beginning to be manufactured as kits sold by mail order through the magazine, Popular Electronics.\u00a0 The country was fully in the throws of the Watergate scandal, an oil crisis, high unemployment and inflation while exiting the Vietnam war.<\/p>\n

<\/a>It is observed that during times of high unemployment that Americans become very creative and spur the economy by what they create.\u00a0 As a result, companies such as Hewlett-Packard grew out of World War II, Apple and Microsoft grew out of the 1970s.\u00a0 They didn’t wait for their government to bail them out.<\/p>\n

You can be successful even if you drop out of college.<\/strong>\u00a0 He quit going to his regular classes 6 months after beginning college.\u00a0 It took him another 18 months to finally officially drop out of college.\u00a0 During that time he decided to drop into classes that interested him.\u00a0 One of those classes was a calligraphy class which he thoroughly enjoyed and led to the original fonts that Apple used which set them apart from the personal computer.<\/p>\n

Pursue your passion.<\/strong>\u00a0 Steve enjoyed creating things beginning with the Apple I which grew from his garage.\u00a0 The Apple I went on sale in July 1976.<\/p>\n

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