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7 Steve Jobs Quotes That Will Help Your Inner Hustler

Use these to keep going when you want to quit

Michael Leonard
6 min readAug 12, 2020
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I’ve always been a hustler.

My earliest side hustle started when I was 10 years old. I downloaded songs via Napster with dial-up internet and burnt CD’s for my friends in middle school. Since then, I’ve been hooked on entrepreneurship.

After that I started selling golf clubs for old people from my country club on eBay. In college, I ran party buses — I love hustling.

I love having the ability to create money from thin air — to take an idea that lives in your head and get people to pay you money for it. That to me is the ultimate definition of “winning.”

In 2017, I went all-in on my dreams of turning my hustles into a full-time business. Somehow, it’s worked — but it hasn’t been easy, far from it.

But one guy has kept me inspired throughout it all — Steve Jobs. Random right?

It started in 2017 when I was hooked on motivational videos from guys like Tony Robbins and Eric Thomas. I stumbled upon Steve’s Harvard commencement speech and must’ve listened to it 100X or more. It helped me keep going when I wanted to quit.

Even though he sadly passed away in 2011, I think he will continue to impact hustlers and…

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Michael Leonard
Michael Leonard

Written by Michael Leonard

Golf writer, host of Wicked Smart Golf Podcast, and mental golf coach. Quit $100K career in 2017 to write & golf.

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