Steve Jobs was a true obsessive.

He pored over every tiny detail of every product, every ad, every store, every thing related to Apple.

His attention to detail and craft comes from his father who told him it was important to craft the backs of fences and cabinets even though they would never be seen.

Jobs told his biographer Walter Isaacson, "He loved doing things right. He even cared about the look of the parts you couldn't see."

While that's an important lesson to learn, Jobs may have taken it a little too far.

The Jobs biography is loaded with examples of Jobs zeroing in on even the most insignificant detail just to get things right.

For instance, when Apple was starting to open new retail stores, his ad partner Lee Clow said, "Steve made us spend a half hour deciding what hue of gray the restroom signs should be."

It's good to get the color right, but there's no reason to take a half hour agonizing over such a small detail. Pick a nice shade of gray, move on.

Of course, that's why he's Steve Jobs and we're not.

We pulled a few more examples of his attention to detail...