The symbol that means the most to me

What symbols can define a person? Religion, political colors or a person’ name, there are lots of symbols that can be present someone. In my perspective, a vivid personality is probably the best symbol of a person. In this essay I am going to talk about Steve Jobs. Knowing his outstanding achievements and his success story has made a great impression on my life.

Steve Jobs was born in 1955 in San Francisco, California, and he dropped out of college because he could not afford the tuition. Then he started a company with his friends in a garage when he was twenty years old. After 10 years, this company, “Apple Computer”, had grown into a $2 billion dollar company with over 4000 employees. However, at the age of 30, Jobs was fired. Instead of leaving Silicon Valley, he started all over again with his passion. Although he lost Apple, he did not lose faith and continued to pursue what he loved and created technologies- NeXTStep and Pixar. Meanwhile, Apple was under immense pressure from Microsoft and lost billions of dollars in 1996. He was asked to come back to Apple and was named CEO in 1997. Under his leadership, Apple regained profitability and became a world-renowned firm.

The symbols of Steve Jobs are not simply the iPhone, iPod, Mac or his companies, more important is his enthusiasm for creating new technologies, the strong will power for surviving crises along with his charming personal style. These aspects of his personality have resulted in his achievements and the products that he has created for us.

From my perspective, Steve Jobs symbolizes the power of personality. Without his determination and vision, the Apple firm would not have succeeded and become the icon that it now is.