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The legacy of Steve Jobs and the success of Apple can teach advisers a whole lot, according to David Patchen of Raymond James, a financial advising firm.
“Deciding what not to do is as important as deciding what to do,” he told a 175 advisers at the firm’s national conference on Monday. Patchen cited words of wisdom from Jobs to point out what advisers can learn from the innovator’s endless pursuit of perfection, quoting from Walter Isaacson’s biography. Here’s a sampling:
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