Forty-five years after Apple’s IPO, the company is now worth $4.1 trillion—but its rise was anything but smooth. Steve Jobs weathered near-bankruptcy and was even ousted from the company he had built, before returning and setting the stage for Apple’s resurgence. But what kept him going, he once told students, was a simple career lesson: doing the work you love.
“Your work is going to fill a large part of your life, and the only way to be truly satisfied is to do what you believe is great work. And the only way to do great work is to love what you do,” Jobs said during a 2005 Stanford commencement speech.
