For the first year, the motivational text has been walking along social networks, which is, according to the heading, the dying message of the famous billionaire to humanity. We checked if he said that.

This is what this popular text looks like:

“Steve Jobs. The last words.

I have achieved the peak of success in the business world, in the eyes of others, my life is the embodiment of success. However, besides work, I have little joy. In the end, wealth is just a fact of life that I am used to. At this moment, when I lie in the patient’s bed and remember my whole life, I understand that all the recognition and wealth that I have are meaningless and devoid of the highest meaning in the face of inevitable death. You can hire someone to drive a car for you, earn money for you, but you will not be able to hire anyone for all your money so that he to incur this disease instead of you. You can find and buy material things. But there is one thing that cannot be found and bought when it is lost - you can not buy life.

Turn yourself well. And respect others. The older we become, the more we smart, and gradually we understand that the clock that costs $ 30, and the clock that cost $ 300 show the same time. Whether we will carry a wallet with us, which costs $ 30, or a wallet that costs $ 300 - both contain the same amount of money. Whether we will drive a car worth $ 150,000 or by car worth $ 30,000 - the road and distance are the same, and we reach the same destination. If we drink a bottle worth $ 300 or wine worth $ 10, then the “buzz” will be the same. In the house in which you live, with an area of 300 square meters. m or 3000 square meters. m - you are equally lonely. Your true inner happiness does not come from the material things of this world. If you are flying in the first grade or economy class and if the plane falls, then you fall with it. ”

Further, Jobs gives “five undeniable facts” and lists the “six best doctors in the world”. From year to year, the confession of Steve Jobs diverges in public networks. For example, in November 2021 as minimum three publications The text in the Russian -speaking part of Facebook caused a three -digit number of reposts each. In the same year, a similar publication on "Yandex.Zen"Had more than 150,000 views. The audio version of confession for YouTube. Dmitry Lebedev included speech in his book "Money makes money: from salaries to financial freedom". The text was also distributed by the popular news portal OBOZREVATEL, sites of the Central City Hospital of the city Reutova, radio "Van", and many other resources. He is popular and on West.

As you know, one of the founders of Apple and Pixar, the Father of the Digital Revolution, Stephen Pol Jobs, passed away on October 5, 2011 after a long struggle with pancreatic cancer. The disease was discovered back in 2003, and two years later, after some success in treatment, Jobs spoke to graduates of Stanford University, telling about the then still defeated ailment and giving a number of instructions on the topic of life. This speech is still very popular:

However, there is nothing similar to those maxims that abound in the text of interest to us. As for dying statements, Steve Jobs, according to His biographer, "wanted to explain to his wife and children why he was not always there." But he did not leave any confession or wills in the spirit of the text in question. The literally the last words of Steve Jobs are known from his sister Mona Simpson: “Before leaving us, Steve looked at his children for a long time, then at Lauren’s wife, and then his gaze rushed somewhere in space. He was breathing heavily, as if rising uphill, it was clear that he was very bad. The last words of his brother before death were: “Wow! Wow! Wow! ”, As if he saw something beautiful ahead. I hope it was so. "

Where did the motivational text come from? In the Russian -language segment of social networks, the text with the same beginning (but significantly different in the middle and end) first appears on November 12, 2015 in the user post Evgenia Grande, and marked that this is her translation of the English -language publication of a certain Damien D Hustle Bryant. The very next day the text got to the page "Hurry to do good" And caused more than 19,000 reposts. As for the original language, one of the first appearance of the text (if not the first) was dated November 6, 2015 and was recorded on a personal website of a certain Shivani guraps From India. Therefore, it is possible that the text first appeared not even in English.

But the edited and expanded (with facts and doctors) version of the text a few years later began give out For the dying speech of another billionaire - Steve Gouvz. It is interesting that a businessman with such a name did not exist at all, and a more voluminous false text gradually migrated to Stephen Jobs. It should also be noted that a selection of “five undeniable facts” lived separate life, without reference to the name of Stephen Jobs, since the beginning of the 2010s. Especially often it occurs at Indian sitesWhere, apparently, was born. In particular, the council not to teach children to live richly attributed to an Indian entrepreneur Ratan Tata.

Thus, Steve Jobs inspiring the last words is nothing more than fiction.