乔布斯英语演讲稿

乔布斯英语演讲稿（通用8篇）

乔布斯英语演讲稿 篇1

The Dragon Boat Festival is celebrated (falls)on the fifth day of the fifthmonth of Chinese lunar calendar.

As one of the traditional Chinese festivals, it has been enjoying greatpopularity in honor of the Chinese great poet Qu Yuan living in the WarringStates Period. He committed suicide by drowning himself in Miluo River forpolitical reasons. The local people decided to throw a particular food called“Zongzi” into the river to prevent fish eating his body.

Today, people eat Zongzi, have dragon boat races and wear colorful threadsaround wrists to bring good luck. And now it has become one of the nationalholidays in China.

乔布斯英语演讲稿 篇2

一、理论基础

系统功能学派认为,语言是社会活动的产物。作为人类交际的工具,它承担着各种各样的功能。[2]韩礼德认为语言有三种纯理功能,即概念功能、语篇功能和人际功能。语言的人际功能是指语言不仅可以表达说话人的经历和内心活动,而且可以表达其身份、地位、态度,以及他对事物的推断等。语言的人际功能主要通过语气、情态和人称三方面来实现。语气系统表明了交际过程中说活人与受话人所扮演的角色;情态系统用以表明说话人对自己所表达内容的有效性的判断;人称系统则可以体现说话人与听众及语篇中涉及到的人物的关系。

二、人际意义分析

(一)语气系统

语气系统体现出了交际双方的角色。说话人的言语角色具有两个最基本的任务,即给予和求取,而交际中的交际物有两类,第一类为物品和服务,第二类为信息。将言语角色和交流物进行组合,可以组成四种言语角色:给予物品或服务为提供;给予信息为陈述;求取物品或服务为命令;求取信息为提问。提供、陈述、命令、提问这四种言语功能与语气系统的关系是十分复杂的。陈述一般由陈述句实现,命令一般由祈使句实现,提问一般由疑问句实现,但皆有例外,而提供是由不同语气实现的。在演讲过程中,演讲者作为说话人会向听众提供大量自己想要表达的信息,同时,演讲者也希望通过自己的演讲对听众的思想甚至行为形成一定的影响,因此,“给予”和“求取”这两种角色在演讲中也有一定体现。

从表中可以看出,乔布斯在斯坦福大学的演讲的句子总数为138个,其中陈述句123个,祈使句11个,疑问句4个。这篇演讲中陈述句的比例高达89%,这是由演讲的目的与内容决定的。乔布斯用大量陈述句讲述了他人生中非常重要的三段经历,并以此来鼓励学生们珍惜时光,用正确的方式看待不同的人生经历,找到自己所爱并为之而奋斗。祈使语气在演讲语篇中多用于表示劝告、邀请、建议、敦促、要求等。[3]这篇演讲辞中祈使句在句子总数的占8%,这些句子的使用是为了呼吁、劝告学生们意识到时光的有限性与找到自己毕生所爱的重要性并采取行动。例如:“So keep looking until you find it.Don't settle.”这里,乔布斯通过连用两个祈使句引起学生们的注意,表达出了一种命令的口吻,恳切地提醒学生,如果没有找到自己所钟爱的事业,一定要继续寻找而不要贪图安逸,让学生们体会到这一观点的重要性。而疑问句则只占整个语篇的3%,用以引起学生们的注意并与其进行良好的互动。

(二)情态系统

韩礼德认为,人际意义的重要组成部分之一是讲话者对自己讲的命题的成功性和有效性所做的判断,或在命令中要求对方承担的义务,或在提议中要表达的个人意愿。[2]情态的体现形式包括情态和意态。情态用以表达命题中的可能性,意态用以表达提议中的可能性。具体来看,情态是指介于“这是”和“这不是”之间的可能性,是这两者间不同量值的概率频率。意态是指介于“做此事”与“不能做此事”之间的可能性,是不同量值的义务和意愿。情态具有多种体现方式,本文重点讨论情态动词,情态动词的使用能有效地将讲话者的意图传达给听众。情态的量值可以分为高、中、低三级。在情态动词中,高量值情态动词有“must”“has to”“ought to”“need to”,中量值情态动词有“will”“would”“shall”“should”,低量值情态动词有“may”“might”“can”“could”。

从上表可以看出:这篇演讲词共使用29个情态动词,其中中量值情态动词有18个,所占比例为62%,使用频次最高;低量值情态动词有9个,占31%,高量值情态动词仅使用2个,占7%,使用频次最低。在演讲中,中量值情态动词的使用既可以表达演讲者的期望或意愿,又可以显示出演讲者对所要表达命题的态度,有时因其表达的感情色彩而易于影响听众。在这篇演讲中,乔布斯使用频次最高的情态动词是“would”,“would”既是对将来时间的限定,又用于表达一种意愿。例如:“So I decided to drop out and trust that it would all work out OK.”乔布斯虽然在对自己的未来没有安排的情况下选择了退学,却用“would”显示出他对未知的将来充满信心,建立起一个值得信服的演讲者的形象,并形成一个伏笔,表明退学这一选择对自己之后的事业影响深远,使学生们更容易接受他在之后的演讲内容中表达的“回望过去,很多经历与选择都很有价值”的观点。

高量值情态动词的使用可以表明演讲者坚定的立场与态度。在某些情况下,如在政治类演讲中,高量值情态动词通常用以体现演讲者的地位与权威,从而影响听众,但在其他类演讲中则使用较少。这篇演讲中,高量值情态动词仅出现两次:“So you have to trust that the dots will somehow connect in your future.You have to trust in something-your gut,destiny,life,karma,whatever.”乔布斯连用两个“have to”来引起学生们的重视,表达出自己对学生强烈的期望与建议。他很确定地让学生们相信,虽然无法预测未来,但过去和现在发生的一些事情一定会对未来产生一些意想不到的影响,并以自己的亲身经历让学生们相信人生和因果等。“have to”的使用具有权威性和绝对性,这种绝对性如果使用过多,会营造一个高高在上的演讲者形象,但适当的使用可以使乔布斯更容易影响学生的想法,使学生以更平静的心态面对现在,并对未来充满信心。

低量值情态动词用以表达一种可能性或能力。低量值情态动词因其低绝对性,可以体现出演讲者对观众的尊重,并且因其主观性较弱,更容易使人信服,所传达的信息更容易被听众所接受。例如:“If I had never dropped out,I would have never dropped in on this calligraphy class,and personal computers might not have the wonderful typography that they do.”乔布斯用“might”表达了他退学去参加美术字课程和之后的个人电脑拥有美妙字体的联系。显然,参加美术字课程并不是个人电脑具有美妙字体的唯一原因,“might”所表达的较低程度的可能性使演讲者所表达的内容更严谨,更值得信服。而偏温和的表达方式更有利于和学生建立和谐的人际关系,从而使演讲内容易于被学生们接受。

(三)人称系统

人称代词的使用也可以体现话语的人际意义。李战子认为,语篇中的代词指称能告诉我们作者是如何看待语篇涉及到的人物的,这些人称代词有助于在作者和读者之间建立一种特定的关系。由此可见,演讲过程中不同人称代词的使用有助于建立和维持演讲者和听众之间的人际关系。人称代词的选择会受到演讲的性质、目的、演讲者的地位等方面的影响。第一人称代词单数用来表达演讲人的观点、态度和经历等。第一人称代词复数既可以是“包含式”的,也可以是“排除式”的。包含听话人的第一人称代词复数把演讲者与听众置于同一情境下,缩短了演讲者与听众的距离,从而使演讲更具有接受性。不包含听话人的第一人称代词复数往往用以表达自己一方的想法与事迹,可以体现演讲的客观性或自己一方的坚定性和权威性。第二人称代词的使用实现了演讲者与听众之间的交流,可以引起听众的注意力并引发听众的思考。第三人称代词通常用以表述第三方的观点或事迹,可以增强演讲的客观性。

从表中可以看出,第一人称代词单数占整个语篇人称代词总数的62.95%。乔布斯通过第一人称代词的使用,对自己生命中的三件重要经历和对自己影响深远的思想进行了清晰阐述。第二人称代词的使用也较多,占22.77%。乔布斯使用第二人称实现和学生们的直接交际并引发学生们思考自己的人生。例如:“And that is as true for your work as it is for your lovers.Your work is going to fill a large part of your life,and the only way to be truly satisfied is to do what you believe is great work.And the only way to do great work is to love what you do.”在这一部分,乔布斯使用了6个第二人称代词,通过把学生们的工作和爱情进行对比,对工作和人生的关系进行分析,让学生们感受到工作的选择不仅与自己的人生幸福感息息相关,从事自己所爱的工作也会使自己的事业更容易成功。乔布斯不仅向学生表达了自己的思想,更引导学生思考自己所热爱的是什么,并鼓励学生去克服困难,把自己所想付诸实践。

第一人称复数和第三人称的使用较少,乔布斯既运用包含式的第一人称复数拉近与学生的距离,使其感同身受,又用排除式的第一人称复数和第三人称体现出演讲的客观性,使演讲更具有说服力。例如:“No one wants to die.Even people who want to go to heaven don't want to die to get there.And yet death is the destination we all share.”“we”既包含乔布斯自己,也包含现场的每一个人。通过包含式的“we”的使用,乔布斯把学生们和自己置于同一境况下,表明虽然并非每个人都和他一样曾经距离死亡那么近过,但是死亡是每一个人都需要面对的,进而阐述了时间的宝贵性,使学生们感同身受。排除式的“we”和第三人称则主要用于讲述与乔布斯父母或合作伙伴相关的事情,增强了演讲的客观性。

本研究从系统功能语法中的人际功能入手,对乔布斯在斯坦福大学的毕业演讲进行了语气、情态、人称三方面的人际意义分析。分析发现:在语气方面,乔布斯选择了陈述句为其主要表达方式,并以祈使句和疑问句点缀,以自己的经历激励学生们进行正确的人生选择;在情态动词方面,乔布斯多用中低量值的情态词,使整个演讲平易近人却又不失影响力;而在人称代词的选择上,乔布斯多用第一称单数与第二人称,在表达自己思想的同时引发学生们的思索,获得了很好的演讲效果。由此可见,正确的语言手段的选择有助于实现演讲的人际意义,促进演讲者与观众的互动,从而达到其演讲目的。本研究中人际意义的分析有助于我们更好地欣赏演讲稿,并有助于我们在演讲稿的撰写中通过有意识地选择合适的语言手段实现演讲的人际意义,达到演讲的目的。

摘要：本研究以韩礼德系统功能语法中的人际功能为理论基础,以蒂夫·乔布斯在斯坦福大学的毕业演讲为文本,从语气系统、情态系统、人称系统三个方面对演讲辞中的人际意义进行分析,旨在揭示演讲者如何通过对语言手段的选择来实现演讲中的人际意义,进而达到其演讲目的,从而为演讲辞的撰写与欣赏提供一定启发。

关键词：演讲辞,人际意义,蒂夫·乔布斯

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乔布斯英语演讲稿 篇3

结构清楚，逻辑清晰

由于公共演讲的听众一般有数十人甚至数百、数千人，再加上演讲环境的不确定性（比如观众的欢呼或者抱怨），演讲者最好在进入主题之后马上给出所讲内容的框架结构，使听众能跟随演讲者的思路，更好地预判整个演讲内容，以达到良好的演讲效果。比如，乔布斯在2005年斯坦福大学毕业典礼上的演讲中，开篇稍微寒暄之后就进入正题：“Today I want to tell you three stories from my life. That’s it. No big deal. Just three stories.”听众马上能对演讲内容做出预判——今天会听到乔布斯谈三点，然后他们会关注具体是哪三点。这种演讲就具备了“以观众为中心”的特质。乔布斯在随后的演讲中分别提到，“The first story is about connecting the dots.”“My second story is about love and loss.”“My third story is about death.”。由于演讲思路非常明晰，听众在听完之后也会记忆犹新。

当然，演讲稿在结构方面的逻辑顺序有许多种，乔布斯的这篇演讲是按照话题顺序和时间顺序来安排的。除此之外，还有空间顺序、“提出问题—分析问题—解决问题”的顺序等。大家可以根据不同演讲内容的需要来安排自己演讲稿的逻辑顺序和整体结构。

开篇出彩，吸引听众

演讲稿的开篇往往需要花费大量的功夫去设计。在写作开篇时，演讲者需要结合听众特点、演讲场合和演讲主题等因素，争取在一开始就紧紧抓住听众的注意力和兴趣。下面笔者就介绍一下基本的演讲开篇模式，供大家写作演讲稿时参考。

演讲稿开篇的目的是吸引听众。乔布斯在他的演讲稿开篇使用的是“关联话题与听众”的方式。这是一种比较有效的方法，因为人们一般对自己的事情都很关注，和自己相关的事情也会格外留意。乔布斯在演讲开篇说道：“I am honored to be with you today for your commencement from one of the finest universities in the world. Truth be told， I never graduated from college. And this is the closest I’ve ever gotten to a college graduation.”高度赞美斯坦福大学——这就是在与听众发生关联。乔布斯就是通过这种方式让听众一开始就对他产生好感或对他的演讲内容产生兴趣。当然，乔布斯还用了适当的幽默，使自己与听众的关系变得更为融洽。

除了乔布斯的这种开篇方式外，我们还需要了解和掌握其他一些开篇方式。①指出演讲话题的重要性。比如要做一场关于“英语演讲的艺术”的演讲，演讲者在一开始就可以指出该演讲对于听众今后的学习、工作将会有很大帮助，甚至可以给出一些数据和实例，让听众明白不听这个演讲将会是一个损失，这样听众就会乐于认真听演讲了。②使听众感到震惊。例如要做一场关于“生活方式与疾病”的演讲，开篇就可以给出一组极具冲击力的数据，让听众看到生活方式不健康将会产生多么可怕的后果，这样的震惊能够使听众快速调整状态，投入到听演讲中去。③引起听众的好奇心。演讲者可以在开篇指出一种特别的现象，听众出于好奇就会认真听演讲，想知道演讲者如何分析或解释。④向听众提问。演讲者可以在开篇提出一个问题，这样可以引发听众的思考，也会引导他们去听演讲者如何解答问题。此外，也可以在开篇引用一段名言，或是讲述一个故事等，这些基本的开篇方式被无数的演讲者证明是实用而且有效的。

观点明确，支撑有效

毫无疑问，在演讲稿中，主体段的信息量最大，写作量也最大。如何清晰地阐释演讲者的观点或演讲要点，如何用相关事实有效地支撑演讲者的各个论点或要点，是演讲稿主体段写作时应该把握的关键。乔布斯在斯坦福大学的毕业演讲中明确给出了三个要点：① The first story is about connecting the dots；② My second story is about love and loss；③ My third story is about death。为了清晰、有效地阐述自己想要表达的这三个要点，他运用了三种手段。首先是举例子。乔布斯在演讲中运用了大量的事例来说明他怎么对待学习、工作和死亡。比如他说自己读书时旁听有意思的书法课程，这些课在当时对他没什么实质帮助，但是十年后在他设计第一款Macintosh电脑的时候，这些东西全派上了用场，这个例子充分说明了他演讲的第一个要点——串起生命中的点滴。另一个手段是引用。乔布斯在演讲中引用了一些名言警句来阐述自己的观点。比如在讲到死亡时，他引用了一句格言：“If you live each day as if it was your last， someday you’ll most certainly be right.”这句话表明了他对于生命和死亡的看法，使听众印象深刻。第三个手段是数据支持。在讲第二个故事——关于爱和失去时，乔布斯用了一系列数据来支撑自己的观点。他说自己是幸运的，因为“Woz and I started Apple in my parents’ garage when I was 20. We worked hard， and in 10 years Apple had grown from just the two of us in a garage into a $2 billion company with over 4000 employees. We’d just released our finest creation—the Macintosh—a year earlier， and I’d just turned 30.”数据很直观，能让听众更直接地认识和理解演讲内容。

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结尾有“道”，画龙点睛

演讲的结尾往往需要起到“画龙点睛”的作用，要尽量做到意味深长、启发思考。开篇和正文再好，如果结尾过于平淡，整个演讲的精彩程度也会大打折扣。那么如何做到结尾有“道”呢？首先我们来看看乔布斯的这篇演讲稿，他的结尾比开篇更加出彩，采用的是“引文结尾”的方式，达到了引人深思的效果。他在结尾说道：“Stewart （编注：即Stewart Brand，《全球概览》杂志创始人） and his team put out several issues of the Whole Earth Catalog， and then when it had run its course， they put out a final issue. It was the mid-1970s， and I was your age. On the back cover of their final issue was a photograph of an early morning country road， the kind you might find yourself hitchhiking on if you were so adventurous. Beneath it were the words ‘Stay Hungry. Stay Foolish.’ It was their farewell message as they signed off. Stay Hungry. Stay Foolish. And I have always wished that for myself. And now， as you graduate to begin anew， I wish that for you. Stay Hungry. Stay Foolish.”乔布斯不仅在演讲结尾引用了这句“Stay Hungry. Stay Foolish”（求知若渴，虚怀若谷），而且重复三遍，强化了听众的印象。这句话后来也被广泛传播，被誉为该篇演讲的精髓。

除了乔布斯这种“引文结尾”的方式，常见的演讲结尾方式还有如下几种。①总结演讲。对演讲中的各个论点或要点进行简单总结和梳理，加深听众的印象。②强有力的陈述。这种方式不同于引用他人之言，往往是演讲者自己的总结和心声。一个非常经典的例子是Patrick Henry的演讲“Liberty or Death”。 他在结尾时说道：“Is life so dear， or peace so sweet， as to be purchased at the price of chains and slavery？ Forbid it， Almighty God！ I know not what course others may take； but as for me， give me liberty， or give me death！”③首尾呼应。在演讲结尾对开篇提到的主题和重点进行重新阐述，这是体现演讲内在统一性的经典形式，值得借鉴。

为了更加有效地掌握文中讲到的写作演讲稿的要点，笔者建议大家做到三点。①多看。多看一些演讲素材，比如名人演讲、演讲比赛优秀选手的演讲等，积累大量的一手素材；也有必要阅读一些关于英语公共演讲的书籍，笔者在此推荐Stephen E. Lucas的《演讲的艺术》（The Art of Public Speaking）一书。②多想。学会分析这些演讲之所以精彩的原因，可以从笔者上面讲的几点入手分析。③多练。在有了一定的积累之后，要大量练习写作演讲稿，话题可以从日常学习和工作中选取，这样练习起来会更有兴趣和成就感。

乔布斯演讲稿 篇4

CEO, Apple and Pixar Animation

Thank you.I’m honored to be with you today for your commencement from one of the finest university in the world.Truth to told, I never graduated from college, and this is the closest I’ve ever gotten to a college graduation.Today, I want to tell you three stories from my life.That’s it.No big deal.Just three stories.The first story is about connecting the dots.I dropped out of Reed College after the first six months, but then stay around as a drop-in for another eighteen months also before I really quit.So why did I drop out? It started before I was born.My biological mother was a young unwed graduate student and she decided to put me up for adoption.She felt very strongly that I should be adopted by college graduates, so everything was all set for me to be adopted at birth by a lawyer and his wife, except when I popped out they decided at the last minute that they really wanted a girl.So my parents, who were on a waiting list got a call in the middle of the night asking, “We’ve got an unexpected baby boy.Do you want him?” They said, “Of course.” My biological mother found out later that my mother had never graduated from college and my father had never graduated from high school.She refused to sign the final adoption papers.She only relented a few months later when my parents promised that I would go to college.This was the start in my life.And seventeen years later, I did go to college, but I naively chose a college that was almost as expensive as Stanford and all of my working-class parent’s savings were being spent on my college tuition.After six months I couldn’t see the value in it.I have no idea what I want to do with my life and no idea how college was going to help me figure it out.And here I was spending all of the money my parents had saved their entire life, so I decided to drop out and trust that it would all work out OK.It was pretty scary at the time, but looking back, it was one of the best decisions I ever made.The minute I dropped out I could stop taking the required classes that didn’t interest me and begin dropping in on the ones that looked far more interesting.It wasn’t all romantic, I didn’t have a dorm room, so I slept on the floor in friends’ rooms.I returned Coke bottles for the five-cent deposits to buy food with and I would work the seven miles across the town every Sunday night to get one good meal a week at the Hare Krishna temple.I loved it.And much of what I stumbled into by following my curiosity and intuition turned out to be priceless later on.Let me give you one example.Reed college at that time offered perhaps the best calligraphy instruction in the country.Throughout the campus every poster every label on every drawer was beautiful hand calligraphed.Because I have dropped out and didn’t have to take the normal classes.I decided to take a calligraphy class to learn how to do this.I learned about serif and san-serif typefaces about varying the amount of space between different letter combinations, about what makes great typography great.It was beautiful, historical, artistically subtle in a way that science can’t capture, and I found it fascinating.None of this had even a hope of any practical application in my life.But ten years later, when we were designing the first Macintosh computer, it all came back to me, and we designed it all into the Mac.It was the first

computer with beautiful typography.If I had never dropped in on that single course in college, the Mac would have never had multiple typefaces or proportionally space fonts, and since Windows copied the Mac, it’s likely that no personal computer would have them.If I had never dropped out, I would never dropped in on that calligraphy class and personals computer might not have the wonderful typography that they do.Of course, it was impossible to connect the dots looking forward when I was in college, but it was very very clear looking backwards 10 years later.Again, you can’t connect the dots looking forward, you can only connect them looking backwards.So you have to trust that the dots will somehow connect in your future.You have to trust in something, you gut, destiny, life, karma, whatever, because believing that the dots will connect down the road, will give you the confidence to follow your heart, even when it leads you off the well worn path.And that would make all the difference.My second story is about love and loss.I was lucky, I found what I loved to do early in life, Woz and I started Apple in my parents’ garage when I was twenty.We worked hard and in ten years, Apple had grown from just the two of us in a garage in to a $2 billion company with over 4000 employees.We just released our finest creation, he Macintosh, a year earlier, and I’d just turned thirty, and then I got fired.How can you get fired from a company you started?Well, as Apple grew, we hired someone who I thought was very talented to run the company with me, and for the first year or so, things went well.But when our visions of the future began to diverge and eventually we had a falling out.When we did, our board of directors sided with him, and so at thirty, I was out, and very publicly out.What had been the focus of my entire adult life gone, and it was devastating.I really didn’t know what to do for a few months, I felt that I had let the previous generation of entrepreneurs down, that I had dropped he baton as it was being passed to me.I met with David Packard and Bob Noyce, and tried to apologize for screwing up so badly.I was a very public failure and I even thought about running away the Valley.But something slowly began to dawn on me, I still loved what I did.The turn of events at Apple had not changed that one bit, I’d been rejected but I was still in love.And so I decided to start over.I didn’t see that then , but it turned out that getting fired from Apple was the best thing that could have ever happened to me.The happiness 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 in 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 became my wife.Pixar went on to create the world’s first computer-aninated feature film “ Toy story”, and is now the most successful animation studio in the world.In a remarkable turn of events, Apple bought NeXT, and I returned to Apple, and the technology we developed at NeXT is at the heart of Apple’s current renaissance, and Lorene and I have a wonderful family together.I am pretty sure none of this world have happened if I hadn’t been fired from Apple.It was awful-tasting medicine, but I guess the patient needed it.Sometime life’s going to hit you in the head with a brick, don’t lose faith.I’ convinced that the only thing that kept me going was that I loved what I did.You’ve got to find what you love, and that is as true for work as it is for your lovers.Your work is going to fill a large part of your life, and the only way to be truly satisfied is to do what you believe is great work, and the only way to do great work is to love what you do.If you haven’t found it yet, keep looking and don’t settle.As with all matters of the heart, you’ll know when you find it, and like any great relationship it just gets better and better as the years roll on.So keep looking, don’t settle.My third story is about death.When I was seventeen, I read a quote that went something like “ If

you live each day as if it was your last , someday you’ll most certainly be right.”It made an impression on me, and since then, for the past 33 years, I have looked in the mirror every morning and asked myself “If today were the last day of my life, would I want to do what I am about to do today?” And whenever the answer has been “no” for too many days in a row, I know I need to change something.Remembering that I’ll be dead soon is the most important thing I’ve ever encountered to help me make the big choices in life.Because almost everything, all external expectation, all pride, all fear of embarrassment of failure, these things just fall away in the face of death, leaving only what is truly important.Remembering what you are going to die is the best way I know to avoid the trap of thinking you have something to lose.You are already naked.there is no reason not to follow your heart.About a year ago, I was diagnosed with cancer, I had a scan at 7:30 in the morning, and it clearly shower a tumor my pancreas, I didn’t even know what a pancreas was, the doctors told me this was almost certainly a type of cancer that is incurable, and that I should expect to live no longer than three to six months.My doctor advised me to go home and get my affairs in order, which is doctors’ code for “prepare to die”.It means to try and tell your kids everything you thought you’d have the next ten years to tell them in just a few months.It means to make sure that everything is buttoned up, so that it will be as easy as possible for your family.It means to say your goodbyes.I lived with that diagnosis all day.Later that evening I had a biopsy, where they stuck on endoscope down my throat, through my stomach into my intestines, put a needle into my pancreas and got a few cells from the tumor.I was sedated, but my wife, who was there, told me that they viewed the cells under a microscope, the doctor started crying, because it turned out to be a very rare form of pancreatic cancer, that is curable with surgery, I had the surgery and , thankfully , I am fine now.This was the closest I’ve been to facing death, and I hope it’s the closest I get for a few more decades.Having lived through it, I can now say this to you with a bit more certainly than when death was a useful but purely intellectual concept, No one wants to die, even people who want to go to heaven, don’t want to die to get there, and yet, death is the destination we all share, no one has ever escaped it, and that is as it should be, because death is very likely the single best invention of life, it’s life’s change agent, it clear out the old and make way for the new.Right now, the new is you.But someday, not too long from now, you will gradually become the old, and be cleared away, sorry to be so dramatic, but it’s quite true.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 drawn out your owner inner voice.And most important is have the courage to follow your heart and intuition.They somehow already know what you truly want to become, everything else is secondary.When I was young, there was amazing publication called The Whole Earth Catalogue, which was one of the bibles of my generation.It was created by a fellow named Stuart Brand not far from here in Menlo Park, and he brought it to life with his poetic touch, this was in the late Sixties, before personal computers and desktop publishing, so it was all made with typewriters, scissors, and Polaroid cameras, it was sort of like Google in paperback form, thirty-five years before Google came along, it was idealistic, overflowing with neat tools and great motions, Stuart and his team put out several issues of The Whole Earth Catalogue, and then when it had run its course, they put out a final issue, it was the mid-Seventies, and I was your age.On the back cover of their final issue, was a photograph of an early morning country road, the kind you might find yourself hitchhiking on if you were so adventurous.Beneath were the words “Stay hungry, stay foolish”.It was their farewell message

乔布斯演讲感想 篇5

读了乔布斯的演讲，有一定的感触，在这里和大家做一个分享。我就和大家分享三点：

一、第一点是“沉淀”

1、我们每时每刻的工作都是在沉淀；现在的工作，我们或者看不到是所谓的好还是不好，我们所要做的就是负责，尽心尽力去做，因为每时每刻我们都是在沉淀；

2、全身心的进入当下的工作，现在所沉淀的东西，这份沉淀必会在后期的发展中会发挥出超乎寻常的能力与影响力。就像乔布斯练的书法与后期开发的麦金塔（mac）的关系。

3、我也在几个公司做过几份工作，过程中沉淀了专业知识，沉淀了一份对待生活的执着，沉淀了一份责任感。

二、第二点叫“放弃”

1、他离开苹果，确实是一个新的开始；这里有个说法叫“每个人都要有否定自己过去的勇气”；

2、我们树立自信往往非常容易，最难的确实“勇于否定自己的过去”；过去的东西如果没有效果，就要勇于否定；无论是主动否定掉它还是被外界来进行否定，都是一种自然的结果，我们要做的就是接受；

3、这让我想起了一个 “小孩子心爱的棉袄”的故事，大意是：虽然心爱这件外套，但自己已经长大了，它不再合身，是应该分手的时候了；虽然，心中仍然留着那份意义，这件外套曾经帮助我成长，我会

永远多谢它，怀念它。

三、第三点叫“快乐”

1、感悟第三个故事：不要活在别人的生活里；

每个人都有一个限制，就是时间的限制，这是我们工作与生活的唯一限制条件。在有限的时间里我们首先要快乐，包括从事目前的工作，很多人不快乐的根源，是因为你不知道要什么！你不知道要什么，所以你不知道去追求什么，你不知道追求什么，所以你什么也得不到。

2、人的一生不是父母一生的续集，也不是儿女一生的前传，更不是朋友一生的外篇，只有你自己对自己的一生负责，别人无法也负不起这个责任。

3、所以，首先就是要考虑自己要的是什么，秉承这一点，工作就会快乐。

以上是我的一点感悟，在这里与各位进行一下分享，祝愿各位本周的工作有一个快乐的开始。

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乔布斯演讲经典语录 篇6

2、领导者和追随者的区别在于创新。

3、有时候，老天会拿砖块打你的头，但不要失去信心。我很确信，能让我继续走下去的唯一理由，就是我爱我所做的事。所以你必须找到你的所爱。要做出伟大的事，唯一方法就是做你爱做的事。如果你还没发现这是什么，继续观察，不要停止。

4、我认为我们正从中获得乐趣。我认为我们的顾客真正喜欢我们的产品。并且我们总是设法做得更好。

5、你的时间有限，所以不要为别人而活。不要被教条所限，不要活在别人的观念里。不要让别人的意见左右自己内心的声音。最重要的是，勇敢的去追随自己的心灵和直觉，只有自己的`心灵和直觉才知道你自己的真实想法，其他一切都是次要。

6、很明显，Dell和苹果是这个行业里面仅有的两家赚钱的企业。他们靠的是像沃尔玛那样赚钱，我们靠创新。

7、您无法仅问顾客什么他们要和然后设法给那他们。当您得到它被修造的时候，他们将想要新的事物。

8、你们的时间有限，所以不要浪费，活在别人的人生里。不要被教条困住，活在别人思考的结果里。不要让别人给的杂音淹没了你内在的声音，最重要的是，有勇气去追随你的真心与直觉。它们常常最知道你想做什么。其他的都是其次。

9、我们在一些伟大的产品上费劲心思，而现在我们迫不及待地想将之公诸于众。

10、我想在宇宙固执地演讲。

11、我们认为看电视的时候，人的大脑基本停止工作，打开电脑的时候，大脑才开始运转。

12、设计不仅仅是视觉和感觉上如何。设计也是它运行起来如何。

13、很多公司选择缩减，那可能对于他们来说是对的。我们选择了另外一条道路。我们的信仰是：如果我们继续把伟大的产品推广到他们眼前，他们会继续打开他们的钱包。

14、不管她读什么，我的女朋友在约会时总是会笑。

15、把真正地有趣的想法和雏鸟技术变成能继续创新几年来的公司，它要求很多学科。

16、有时当你创新时，你会犯错误。最好赶快承认它们，并在其它创新中改进。

17、修造下一代计算机花了我们3年的时间。如果我们给了顾客他们描述中想要的，我们不得不在与他们谈话一年后建造出计算机——而不是他们现在想要的。

18、在汽车市场上，苹果公司的市场份额比宝马或奔驰或保时捷都大。宝马、奔驰是怎么回事？

19、在多数人的词汇中，设计意味表面装饰。它其实是内部装饰。这是沙发帷幕的织品。但对我，没什么能比设计的涵义更深刻了。设计是结束自我表达的使用产品，或服务的连续外层人工创作的根本灵魂。

20、我真诚地祝福他。我真认为他和微软有点挤。他会是一个心胸更加宽广的人——如果他曾经投下了醋意，或者当他更加年轻时离开了聚会所。

像乔布斯那样开会 篇7

我说:“开会作为一种统一认识、协调行动的关键手段,当然很有必要。但你要意识到那么多经理人放下手头的工作来开会,其产生的直接和间接成本是很高的。除非你能像乔布斯那样开会,否则会议的成本远超收益,得不偿失。”

“你说说看,乔布斯是怎么开会的?”乔总饶有兴趣地问。

“乔氏开会法的第一个关键词是互动。乔布斯本人长期修禅,因此禅宗的极简主义深刻影响着他的工作和生活。他在产品发布会中用的PPT,都是极为简约的风格,很多时候就是一句话或者一张图片,甚至是空白,让自己可以即兴发挥,与听众互动。乔布斯常对他的经理们说:如果你确实想清楚了要说什么,有没有PPT无关紧要;如果你在陈述中离不开PPT,说明你还想得不够清楚。”

乔总面露难色:“但像我们这种业务总结会,总监们确实有很多信息要汇报,不用PPT,他们哪里记得住那么多内容?”

我没有正面回应,举了另外一个例子:“杰克·韦尔奇接任GE公司CEO后,进行的第一项改革就是不允许他的幕僚们在业务汇报时照着PPT念,他认为这种会议完全没有价值。他要求汇报人事先把汇报材料发给参会者,让大家提前看完,准备好问题。会上大家就不用花时间听汇报人照本宣科重复一遍,而是围绕报告提问和互动。比如,做得好的方面,是如何办到的。做得不好的地方,如何帮你解决。这样管理会议就真正变成了一个相互帮助、激发、学习的平台,每一分钟都价值千金。”

乔总频频点头说:“那第二个关键词呢?”

“第二个关键词是协作。苹果成功的一项关键战略是依靠强大的软件、硬件和平台的整合能力打造一流的产品,这需要组织内各部门强大的协同作战能力。因此乔布斯特别喜欢召开跨部门的管理会议,议题无所不包,有产品设计、广告创意、行销策略等。任何感兴趣的管理人员都可以参加,提出建议,协调行动。苹果的产品开发流程不像其他公司由工程部主导,随后交给业务部销售,而是在以设计部门为圆心,其他所有部门周边环绕的持续互动协同中完成的。”

“这听上去很不错,但在实际工作中,每个部门都有自己的体系,协调起来很困难啊!”乔总质疑道。

“你说得很对。这就要求组织的绩效管理体系要与公司的核心战略协调一致。苹果公司的所有部门只有一张损益表,这就消除了各部门协同作战的激励障碍。反观索尼,2001 年苹果公司刚推出i Pod时,索尼拥有强大的产品设计能力和大牌云集的唱片公司,处在非常有利的位置阻击i Pod。但公司的各个业务部门都有自己的体系,唱片公司担心在网上销售歌曲会影响传统唱片的销量,迟迟不愿与设计部门合作。只能眼睁睁地看着i Pod越做越大,最终颠覆了整个音乐产业。”

“看来组织形式无绝对好坏之分,关键要与公司的战略保持一致啊!”乔总深有感触。

“第三个关键词是专注。会议是统一思想、保持专注的重要手段。乔布斯每年都会和公司的一百位核心员工召开连续数天的战略研讨会,这一百人并非依据职位级别挑选,而是公司的中流砥柱,即使公司被付之一炬,这一百个人也能重建公司。在每次会议中,乔布斯都会走到白板前问大家,接下来你们认为我们最应该做的十件事是什么,按照优先次序把它们列出来。然后这一百人会被分成好几个小组进行热火朝天的讨论,拿出一个基于全体共识的清单。最后,乔布斯会把清单上的前三项勾出来,把后七项全部划掉,斩钉截铁地说,让我们专注在这三件事上,并全力以赴把它们做到尽善尽美。”

乔总击节叫好:“这个方法好,我一直就为这事儿犯愁,每年我们都讨论出一堆计划,最后能落实的没几个,还不如就做好最重要的三件事呢!明天我就在会议室把这三个关键词贴出来,让我们的会议真正动起来!”

我忍不住笑着说:“祝你成为咱们中国的乔布斯!”

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每当我想做出重大决定的时候，我都会用自己将不久于人世这个信息来激励斗志。因为当你面对死亡的时候，无论别人对你有多大的期望，你有多么傲人的成绩，又或是你出过多大的丑，都不重要。那时，你真正需要考虑的是那些最重要的事。清楚知道你剩下的日子，你就会明白应该大胆尝试，无论这条路有多难。既然即将失去你最宝贵的生命，那为什么不趁机好好成全一下自己呢?

大约一年前，我被诊断出癌症。早上7点半，我做了一次检查，清楚地显示出胰腺上长了个肿瘤。在那之前，我甚至不知道胰腺是什么东西。医生告诉我这种癌症几乎无法治愈，而我应该只剩下3到6个月的生命。他们建议我回家好好休息并安排好所有事，意思就是说我离死不远了。我需要把自己在未来10年想和孩子们说的话，在这短短几个月里全说完。也意味着我需要把家里的事情交代清楚，不会遗留下麻烦，同时，我也是时候和好友告别了。

傍晚时分，我接受了一次活组织切片检查。他们从喉咙插入内窥镜，通过我的胃进入肠子里，然后在胰腺上扎了一针，取出一些肿瘤细胞。我很冷静，但是当时陪着我的妻子告诉我说，当医生在显微镜下观察细胞时，他们兴奋地尖叫了起来。因为我所患的是一种极罕见的能通过手术治愈的胰腺癌。于是，我做了手术，现在康复了!

这是我与死神离得最近的一次，也希望我这未来几十年里不要再有这样的事发生。经过这次磨难，我可以更加肯定地告诉你们，死亡是一个很有用且很考验人的讯息：没人想死，即使有人认为死后可以上天堂。但其实，死亡是每个人共同的终点。

这就是生命的规律。死亡很可能是生命中最好的发明，它是生命的促变者，它送走老一代，给新一代开出道路。如今，你们就是新的一代，但在不久的将来，你们也会成为老一代，被生命送走。非常抱歉我说的话有点悲观，但这是不争的事实。

我们拥有的时间并不多，所以别把它浪费在别人的生命里。不要被教条束缚，因为那些观念不属于你自己。别让其他人的意见掩盖了你内心的声音，你要有勇气听从你直觉和心灵的指引。因为，只有你才能真正清楚自己的想法，其他人只是起辅助作用。

我小时候曾看过一本有名的读物《整个地球的目录》(《The Whole Earth Catalog》)，这本书可以说是我那一代圣经级的读物。

这本书的作者Stewart Brand，住在离这不远的门洛帕克镇(Menlo Park)。他的生命里充满了诗歌般的写意。当时是60年代末，还没有个人电脑及台式印刷系统。因此，这本书是借助打字机、剪刀及偏光镜完成的。有点像谷歌的平装书，但要比它早35年。这本书充满了幻想色彩，并夹带了许多新奇的事物与想法。