Steve Jobs' Attitude Towards Wealth

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Steve Jobs had a complex attitude towards wealth, which included being both broke and a billionaire.
He was an antimaterialistic hippie, who capitalized on the invention of a friend, who wanted to give them away for free.
And he was a Zen devotee who made a pilgrimage to India, and then decided that his calling was to create a business.
However, these attitudes seemed to weave together, rather than conflict.
He had a great love for some material objects, especially those that were finally designed and crafted, such as Porsche and Mercedes cars.
Henkel's knives and bronze appliances, BMW motorcycles, and Anselle Adam Prince, bang and allfusen audio equipment.
Yet the house he lived in, no matter how rich he became, tended not to be ostentatious and were furnished so simply that they would have put a shaker to a shame.
Neither then nor later would he travel with an entourage, keep a personal staff, or even have security protection.
He bought a nice car, but he always drove himself.
When Marcula, this is one of the first venture capitalists, are the first person to put money inside of Apple.
When Marcula asked his jobs to join him in buying a Lear jet, he declined, though he eventually would demand of Apple a Gulfstream to use, so that was after he came back to Apple.

What I learned from reading Steve Jobs by Walter Isaacson.

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