The genius of Steve Jobs was that he saw uses in technology that no one else saw. Steve Wozniak made the first Apple computer, but it was Jobs who envisioned its potential as a personal computer. Xerox created the mouse and the GUI, but it wasn't until Jobs licensed them that they revolutionized how people interface with computers. Pixar was a small special effects company before Jobs purchased it for $10 millions and under his direction produced the first fully digital animated movie. Disney ended up purchasing Pixar for about $10 billion. (I guess that puts a price tag on prickish micro-managing). And finally he took a computer hardware manufacturer/software company and turned it into the world's largest music distributor. I would imagine that someone with a list of these accomplishments must be pretty smart in his own right.