6. Steve Jobs, Apple Founder: Nothing Succeeds Like Failure
6.史蒂夫·乔布斯，苹果创始人：失败乃成功之母
Steve Jobs had a vision, back in the 1980s, for a three-dimensional imaging computer that would revolutionize the defense, oil, and medical industries. He was wrong about it, and he lost millions of his own dollars before shutting down production of the $125,000 Pixar Imaging Computer in 1991. At the time, Pixar's only profitable unit was a tiny team of animators using Pixar software to make computer-generated TV commercials--a team that would later form the Pixar movie studio that made Toy Story. And when Jobs died in 2011, more than 70 percent of his $8.3 billion fortune came from his stake in Pixar Studios, in an industry he never had any intention of entering.
早在20世纪80年代，史蒂夫·乔布斯就预想了一种三维成像计算机，这种计算机将在国防、采油和冶金工业方面产生革命性的影响。他想错了，在他于1991年停止生产价值12.5万美元的皮克斯成像计算机前，他损失了数以百万计的个人财产。当时，皮克斯唯一盈利的项目是一个使用皮克斯软件制作电脑合成电视广告的动画团队。正是这个团队在之后组建了皮克斯电影工作室，他们创造了《玩具总动员》。更有甚者，当乔布斯于2011年去世时，他83亿美元资产的70%来自于他所持有的皮克斯工作室的股份，而这是一个他从未想过涉及的领域。