R.I.P. Steve Jobs

[DGuller]

http://www.forbes.com/sites/quickerbettertech/2011/10/10/steve-jobs-was-a-jerk-good-for-him/

I am not creative or brilliant.  I work hard.  But I like my vacations, my time watching my kids play sports, the odd nap on a Sunday afternoon too.  I don't think I'm anywhere near as hard a worker as Jobs was.  And I'm not a jerk like Jobs was. Which is the biggest reason why I'm just a moderately successful business guy, and not a super billionaire.   That's because being creative and hard working isn't that uncommon.  Being a jerk is.

  Being a jerk is uncommon?  Sometimes I wonder whether people who write for WSJ or Forbes have the even faintest touch with reality.

[grumbler]

  Being a jerk is uncommon?  Sometimes I wonder whether people who write for WSJ or Forbes have the even faintest touch with reality.

Once you move away from the whole NYC/Northern Jersey area, I would say jerks are uncommon in business.  I wonder if people from that area have even the faintest touch with reality.

[Berkut]

  Being a jerk is uncommon?  Sometimes I wonder whether people who write for WSJ or Forbes have the even faintest touch with reality.

Once you move away from the whole NYC/Northern Jersey area, I would say jerks are uncommon in business.  I wonder if people from that area have even the faintest touch with reality.

Yeah, it is actually kind of funny how quickly people who treat others like shit fail in business.

In fact, I think if anything people are generally probably a bit TOO nice in business, and largely unwilling to just come out and say when others are fucked up.

[Razgovory]

  Being a jerk is uncommon?  Sometimes I wonder whether people who write for WSJ or Forbes have the even faintest touch with reality.

Once you move away from the whole NYC/Northern Jersey area, I would say jerks are uncommon in business.  I wonder if people from that area have even the faintest touch with reality.

Well, that region is where a lot of the business is located.

[frunk]

Once you move away from the whole NYC/Northern Jersey area, I would say jerks are uncommon in business.  I wonder if people from that area have even the faintest touch with reality.

I'm pretty sure jerks in general are not in short supply, so this being a critical skill to being wildly successful in business would tend to make them more common.

[The Brain]

Ingvar Kamprad isn't a jerk, just a Nazi.

[DGuller]

But he makes the Apple of furniture.   

[The Brain]

But he makes the Apple of furniture.   

Fuck you.

[DGuller]

But he makes the Apple of furniture.   

Fuck you.

Did he run over your goat or something?

[The Brain]

Who? Jobs?

[garbon]

Ingvar Kamprad isn't a jerk, just a Nazi.

Well according to wiki, he was only 16 when he joined.

[The Brain]

Ingvar Kamprad isn't a jerk, just a Nazi.

Well according to wiki, he was only 16 when he joined.

It's not when you become a Nazi that matters, it's when you stop being one.

[Razgovory]

Well, what's him name, the guy who used to post here and was a business man was kind of a jerk.  The guy who got stabbed by all those Dayaks.

[The Brain]

bmo was not a jerk. He was a Swede.

[Razgovory]

bmo was not a jerk. He was a Swede.

Same thing.  I remember asking the pin cushion if a businessman could be honest, and he said no.  Is he even still alive?