Steve Jobs Just Ask

Most people don’t get those experiences because they never ask. I've never found anybody that didn't want to help me if I asked them for help. And he answered the phone himself. He said, yes. He said, hi, I'm Steve Jobs. I'm 12 years old. And I was wondering if you had any spare parts I could have. And he gave me a job that summer in Hewlett Packard, working on the assembly line, putting nuts and bolts together on frequency counters. And I was in heaven. And I've never found anyone who said no or hung up the phone when I called. Most people never pick up the phone and call. Most people never ask.

A bearded, bespectacled Steve Jobs sits in a chair and calmly recounts how he called Bill Hewlett as a 12-year-old to ask for spare parts, eventually receiving a summer job at Hewlett-Packard. The clip ends with his motivational point that people who take action simply ask, while others only dream. It is shared as an earnest reaction about confidence, initiative, networking, and asking for help.

Most people don't get those experiences because they never ask. I've never found anybody that didn't want to help me if I asked them for help. I always call them up. I called up, this will date me, but I called up Bill Hewlett when I was 12 years old. And he lived in Palo Alto. His number was still in the phone book. And he answered the phone himself. He said, yes? He said, hi, I'm Steve Jobs. I'm 12 years old. I'm a student in high school and I want to build a frequency counter. And I was wondering if you had any spare parts I could have. And he laughed, and he gave me the spare parts to build his frequency counter, and he gave me a job that summer in Hewlett Packard, working on the assembly line putting nuts and bolts together on frequency counters. He got me a job in the place that built them. And I was in heaven. And I've never found anyone who said no or hung up the phone when I called. I just asked. And when people ask me, I try to be as responsive, you know, to pay that debt of gratitude back. back. Most people never pick up the phone and call. Most people never ask. And that's what separates sometimes the people who do things from the people that just dream about them.

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