Steve Jobs on Passion: Love the Work
What Jobs talks about
Jobs argues that passion is essential because meaningful work is so difficult that people without it will eventually give up. He says the people who succeed are the ones who genuinely love what they do.
He frames perseverance as the natural result of caring deeply about the work. When problems and worries pile up, passion is what keeps you going long enough to make real progress.
The core message is simple: if you want to create value, you have to love the work itself, not just the outcome.
Jobs speaks throughout; the interviewer is only heard through the question.
In his words
“People say that you should have a lot of passion for what you are doing.”
“This is absolutely true.”
“If you do not have passion, then any sensible person will give up.”
“That is why you have to love it.”
“You should have passion.”
Key points
- Passion matters because hard work lasts a long time.
- If you do not enjoy the work, you will eventually quit.
- Successful people often succeed because they love what they do.
- Perseverance comes from genuine interest and commitment.
- Hard problems and worries make passion even more necessary.
Full transcript
I was wondering what would be the most valuable advice you could give us so that we can also try to create some value in our affluent companies like you. People say that you should have a lot of passion for what you are doing. And this is absolutely true. The reason for this is that it is so difficult that if you do not have passion, then any sensible person will give up. This is really very difficult and you have to keep doing it for a long time. That is why if you do not like it, if you do not enjoy doing it, if you do not love it, then you will give up. And in reality, this is what happens with most people. If you look at those people who were successful in the eyes of the society and those who could not be successful, they were those who loved their work.
So that when the time becomes very difficult, they can persevere. And those who did not like it, they left the work because they were sensible. If you do not like it, then there are so many problems. So there is a lot of hard work in it and there are a lot of worries. And if you do not like it, then you will be unsuccessful. That is why you have to love it. You should have passion. www.mooji.org
Transcribed from the audio with OpenAI Whisper. Timestamps link to the video above. Errors are possible.