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Steve Jobs' Legacy

By Lee Kowarski

The best compliment that I ever received about kasina was when a client described us as "the Apple of the asset management industry" because of our focus on innovation, our understanding of technology's impact, and our ability to "think differently". Today, as the world mourns the loss of Steve Jobs, I find myself feeling the loss more than I would have expected for someone that I never met. Rather than try to sum up what Steve Jobs meant to me, our company, or the industry, I thought I would simply share four quotations that have inspired me, a video, and two excellent tributes:

• "Your time is limited, so don't waste it living someone else's life. Don't be trapped by dogma - which is living with the results of other people's thinking. Don't let the noise of others' opinions drown out your own inner voice." - Commencement speech at Stanford University, 2005
• "That's been one of my mantras - focus and simplicity. Simple can be harder than complex: you have to work hard to get your thinking clean to make it simple. But it's worth it in the end because once you get there, you can move mountains."- Interview with Business Week, 1998
• "Being the richest man in the cemetery doesn't matter to me... Going to bed at night saying we've done something wonderful... that's what matters to me." - Interview with Wall Street Journal, 1993
• "It's really hard to design products by focus groups. A lot of times, people don't know what they want until you show it to them." - BusinessWeek interview, May 1998
• Video of Steve Jobs introducing the Macintosh in 1984: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2B-XwPjn9YY
• Gizmodo's tribute: http://gizmodo.com/5838922/the-steve-jobs-think-different-tribute-video
• Wired's tribute: www.wired.com/epicenter/2011/10/jobs/

RIP, Steve - you will continue to inspire us all for many years to come.

*Sent from my iPad