Oprah and Steve Jobs Compare Contrast
By Ted Kameron
Even though Steve jobs and Oprah Winfrey are similar in their success and are philanthropists, they differ in their fields.
This essay will compare and contrast two famous individuals: Steve Jobs and Oprah Winfrey. They both changed the world in their own way. Steve Jobs is most notably known for co-founding Apple Computers and Oprah Winfrey is known for her multi-award winning talk-show. Even though Steve jobs and Oprah Winfrey are similar in their success and their childhood, they differ in their fields.
The first similarity that Steve Jobs and Oprah Winfrey have in common is their success. Steve Jobs was born on February 1955 in San Francisco, California. He was an artist, a technologist and a great marketer. Though he was a college dropout, he was a genius. He became a genius through deliberate practice to develop targeted skills. He researched and read about the great people who inspired him and some of them even became his mentors. He applied their proven success principles to his own life. For example Thomas Edison the great American inventor inspired Steve the technologist, singer Bob Dylan inspired Steve the artist and Regis McKenna the marketing guru of Silicon Valley inspired Steve the marketer. He co-founded Apple Computers alongside his childhood friend Steve Wozniak. At first the duo struggled to keep the company; however, they succeeded without selling company’s shares to the public. Whereas, Oprah Winfrey born on January 1954 in Kosciusko, Mississippi is known for her world’s famous TV talk show the “Oprah Winfrey Show”. She had been inspired by Barbara Walters a senior talk show host. She started off as a news anchor on a local radio station where she talked about life related issues. That blew up into even bigger and greater things to a point that when she received her own talk-show it became syndicated around the world and it’s been like that for the last twenty five years. As a host Oprah was able to connect with her audience
Even though Steve jobs and Oprah Winfrey are similar in their success and are philanthropists, they differ in their fields.
This essay will compare and contrast two famous individuals: Steve Jobs and Oprah Winfrey. They both changed the world in their own way. Steve Jobs is most notably known for co-founding Apple Computers and Oprah Winfrey is known for her multi-award winning talk-show. Even though Steve jobs and Oprah Winfrey are similar in their success and their childhood, they differ in their fields.
The first similarity that Steve Jobs and Oprah Winfrey have in common is their success. Steve Jobs was born on February 1955 in San Francisco, California. He was an artist, a technologist and a great marketer. Though he was a college dropout, he was a genius. He became a genius through deliberate practice to develop targeted skills. He researched and read about the great people who inspired him and some of them even became his mentors. He applied their proven success principles to his own life. For example Thomas Edison the great American inventor inspired Steve the technologist, singer Bob Dylan inspired Steve the artist and Regis McKenna the marketing guru of Silicon Valley inspired Steve the marketer. He co-founded Apple Computers alongside his childhood friend Steve Wozniak. At first the duo struggled to keep the company; however, they succeeded without selling company’s shares to the public. Whereas, Oprah Winfrey born on January 1954 in Kosciusko, Mississippi is known for her world’s famous TV talk show the “Oprah Winfrey Show”. She had been inspired by Barbara Walters a senior talk show host. She started off as a news anchor on a local radio station where she talked about life related issues. That blew up into even bigger and greater things to a point that when she received her own talk-show it became syndicated around the world and it’s been like that for the last twenty five years. As a host Oprah was able to connect with her audience
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