I kind of like myself and I'm not that anxious to change - Steve Jobs at 30

Here is a very interesting interview of Steve Jobs after he was just kicked out of Apple in 1985. He doesn't beat around the bush on getting fired and his disappointment.

The interview ran in Newsweek in September 1985, weeks after Jobs -- then 30 -- resigned from the company he had co-founded. Asked whether he had contributed to his own downfall, he admitted that at 25 he could have handled things better. Then came the line that gives this post its title: "I can be very intense in my convictions. And I don't know -- all in all, I kind of like myself, and I'm not that anxious to change."

What is even more remarkable, reading it decades later, is how little his basic approach changed afterward. His belief that he did not need consumer research to tell him how to innovate stayed one of his core attitudes for the rest of his career. "Customers can't tell you about the next breakthrough that's going to happen next year that's going to change the whole industry," he told Newsweek. "Everything starts with a great product." The iPod, the iPhone, and the iPad would all be built on exactly that conviction.

On being fired, he was direct: he was growing from the experience, and he was not bitter. "I'm not bitter; I'm not bitter." Within months he had founded NeXT -- and the rest is history.