What Steve Jobs Taught Me About Morals

I do not agree with the conventional view that “in life one can either achieve practical success or be moral, but not both.” In studies conducted by Carnegie Institute of Technology, it has been found that eighty-five percent of success is due to the moral skills like the ability to communicate, negotiate, and lead in your personality. These are skills you obtain through being aware of your feelings and other’s feelings, your integrity, responsibility, sympathy, and forgiveness. And when you think about it, your morals are what causes people to trust or distrust you, and wouldn’t you rather do business or be with someone you trust? Taking responsibility for your actions, not making excuses for your mistakes and failures, and keeping your morals some of the key ways to achieve success in my eyes.

One example of a historic and powerful figure that implemented his morals into his rise to success and fortune is Steve Jobs. Everyone knows Steve Jobs as the multi-billion dollar creator of Apple Software, but what some people don’t realize is that through his failures Jobs kept his morals strong, and in the end succeeded more than he had probably ever imagined. When Jobs was in his 20s, he started his Apple company in his parents garage with a friend. Within 10 years, his company grew into a two billion dollar corporation. He was only thirty years old at the time, and had already achieved so much. But, then things started to go downhill for Jobs. Jobs and his Board of Directors for Apple hired another man to help Jobs run his company, and after a year, the two men started having differing views of how they envisioned the company’s future.And in the end, Jobs was fired from his position of co-running the company, even though he was the founder of the company.

Now, at a time like this many of us, including myself, would probably be extremely unhappy with the situation and consider trying to “get revenge” on the company by ruining what we lost. But that was against...