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"I didn't see it then, but it
turned out that getting fired from Apple was the best thing that could have ever
happened to me. The heaviness of being successful was replaced by the lightness
of being a beginner again, less sure about everything. It freed me to enter one
of the most creative periods of my life."
"During the next five years, I
started a company named NeXT, another company named Pixar, and fell in love with
an amazing woman who would become my wife. Pixar went on to create the world's
first computer-animated feature film, Toy Story, and is now the most successful
animation studio in the world."
"I'm pretty sure none of this would
have happened if I hadn't been fired from Apple. It was awful tasting medicine,
but I guess the patient needed it. Sometimes life's going to hit you in the head
with a brick. Don't lose faith.
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