Who is the entrepreneur most admired by the American adolescents? The answer is Steve Jobs, according to a research conducted by Junior Achievement, organization that guides students on entrepreneurship , finances and professional future. The CEO of Apple gets 35% of the votes, overcoming Oprah Winfrey (25%), the skater Tony Hawk (16%) and the CEO and founder of Facebook Mark Zuckerberg (10%).

However, what the adolescents see in Jobs? The answers were:

- 61% of the ones that voted for in him mentioned the fact that he “made difference or it improved the people’s life or it turned the better world.”

- 33% answered that Jobs obtained “success in several areas”

- 4% mentioned the fame and the fortune as reasons for the choice of Jobs

Jobs is considered a notable leader in the technology of information and entertainment industries, however he has a difficult temperament: his epics anger moments became a legend. The journalist and writer Leander Kahney, which followed the entrepreneur’s career closely for years, already showed to the world a little of the worshipped entrepreneur/celebrity: a fascinating icon full of contradictions.

Jobs is an elitist that considers most of the people idiot, but he makes gadgets easy to be used by any idiot. He builds solid and durable partnerships with creative geniuses like Steve Wozniak, Jonathan Ive and John Lasseter. He is Buddhist and is considered anti-materialist, however he makes products for mass markets in Asian factories and promotes them with absolute domain of the propaganda language.

In short, Jobs adopted the lines considered defects by some as narcissism, perfectionism, desire of total control to drive Apple to the victory against adverse probabilities. In other words, he overcame all of the obstacles and built his own empire.

Via: JA.