Steve Jobs: advice to entrepreneurs

Kottke points to a 1995 interview with Steve Jobs over at the Smithsonian. His advice to future and budding entrepreneurs is timeless:

I’m convinced that about half of what separates the successful entrepreneurs from the non-successful ones is pure perseverance. It is so hard. You put so much of your life into this thing….So you’ve got to have an idea, or a problem or a wrong that you want to right that you’re passionate about otherwise you’re not going to have the perseverance to stick it through. I think that’s half the battle right there.