There is hardly a person alive that doesn't know who Steve Jobs is. It is this name recognition that inspired me to give a speech about him as part of the Toastmasters Basic Manual (Competent Communication) speech# 3.

1. I Want to Be
Steve Jobs
Basic Manual
(Project #3)
Darryl Heron
Toastmasters- Word Weavers Wiesbaden, Germany
31 August, 2011

2. About the Presentation
This is based on a speech given about Steve Jobs
@Toastmasters Word Weavers club
Wiesbaden, Germany on August 31, 2011…
This was Project #3 out of the Basic Manual

3. You know of Steve Jobs
• Apple Computers
• iPod
• iTunes
• iPhone
• iPad
He recently retired,
I want to be Steve Jobs!

4. Apple- the early years
Steve Jobs and Steve Wozniak started Apple
computers
Like many other companies in Silicon Valley, Apple
was started out of family garage of Steve Jobs
He was one of the first to see the potential of the
mouse. That„s why we all have a mouse on our PCs
today.

5. Change the World
Steve Jobs lured John Sulley away from
Pepsi to be Apple„s CEO, asking him
„Do you want to sell sugar water for the
rest of your life, or do you want to come
with me and change the world?“

6. Boardroom Coup
Apple„s Board of directors sided with CEO John Sulley in a
dispute between Steve Jobs & himself.
Can you imagine being fired from the company you co-
founded?
Jobs said during his famous commencement address at
Stanford „The heaviness of being successful was replaced
by the lightness of being a beginner again, less sure about
everything. It freed be to enter on the most creative periods
of my life“

7. Being Fired, from your own company!
After leaving Apple, Steve Jobs was at a
loss.
„I really didn„t know what to do for a few
months. I felt that I had let the previous
generation of entrepreneurs down – that I
had dropped the baton as if was being
passed on to me.“
„But something slowly began to dawn on
me – I still loved what I did. The turn of
events at Apple had not changed that one
bit. I had been rejected but I was still in
love. And so I decided to start over.“

8. NeXT & Pixar
Steve Jobs started NeXT Computer.
He bought The Graphics Group from
LucasFilm. This would later become Pixar
Chances are that you„ve probably heard of
a Pixar movie or two (even if you haven„t
seen one)
Disney bought Pixar and Steve Jobs
became the largest single stockholder of
Disney

9. Reed College
Steve Jobs parents promised to send him
to college. He had his heart set on Reed
College
A Caligrpahy class that he took while a
Reed College was largely responsilbe for
all the different fonts and typefaces that
were offered on the Macintosh.
Can you imagine not being able to use
serif, san serif, and all the other fonts we
have today?

10. If You Don„t Have Your Health
At 17 Steve Jobs read „If you live each day as if it was
your last, you„ll most certainly be right“
„If today were the last day of my life, would I want to do
what I am about to do today?“ If the answer is not too
often, it is time to make some changes.
parents promised to send him to college. He had his heart
set on Reed College
„Your time is limited, so don„t waste it living someone
else„s life. Don„t be trapped by dogma - … have the
courage to follow your heart and intuition. They somehow
already know what you truly want to become. Everything
else is secondary.“

11. Stay Hungry, Stay
Foolish!
We call learn a few
things from Steve
Jobs…

12. Some Final Words..
I learned a lot about Steve Jobs when I was preparing for my
speech. I was really looking forward to seeing what he was
going to do now that he had “retired” from Apple. I thought
that maybe he might challenge Bill Gates in the world of
Philanthropy or that he might tackle one of the
insurmountable problems that we have today. Like much of
the world I was truly saddened to hear of his death. When
all is said and done I wonder how many people will have
been inspired by Steve Jobs and what his impact will have
been and continue to be?
I„m currently reading the Steve Jobs biography written by
Walter Isaacson. I encourage you to read it if you„d like to
learn more about Steve Jobs.

13. Be Sure to Check Out
Steve Jobs„ 2005 Stanford Commentment Address
http://news.stanford.edu/news/2005/june15/videos/987.html
Darryl Heron„s presentations on SlideShare
http://www.slideshare.net/darrylheron
Find out more About.me
http://about.me/darrylheron
Toastmasters International
http://www.toastmasters.org/
Word Weavers- Wiesbaden, Germany (my home club)
http://www.word-weavers.de/

14. Credits
Jobs holding a white iPhone 4 at Worldwide Developers Conference
2010
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Steve_Jobs_Headshot_2010-CROP.jpg
Steve Jobs with the first generation iPad tablet
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Steve_Jobs_with_the_Apple_iPad_no_l
ogo_(cropped).jpg
Wikipedia entry on Steve Jobs
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Steve_Jobs
Text from Steve Jobs„ 2005 Stanford Commencement Address
http://news.stanford.edu/news/2005/june15/jobs-061505.html
Jobs on stage at Macworld Conference & Expo San
Francisco, January 11, 2005
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Stevejobs_Macworld2005.jpg