Everybody knows that the late Apple CEO Steve Jobs was legendary for his business prowess. He helped make Apple a household name by focusing on quality, design and innovation. Simply put, Jobs would not accept a second-rate product, even if it would sell. That covenant with consumers has helped the company to become extremely successful in recent years.

But when he wasn't on stage delivering the Keynotes that have announced so many iconic Apple products, Steve Jobs was busy running his company, an aspect of him the public didn't often see.

But a few days ago, Aubrey Johnson, who used to work for two companies that Apple purchased, Color Labs and Lala, wrote a blog post about what it was like to make a deal with Apple. But shortly after that post was published, it was taken down.

Luckily, the folks at MacRumors? had already used the article as a source, and quoted it in their own post. From what we can still see, Johnson describes? Jobs as an easygoing, straight-shooting business man who conducted his meetings in a direct manner.

She set the scene of a business meeting taking place over dinner at Jobs' private house during November 2009. Surrounding the hallowed CEO at the table were his fellow executives Eddy Cue and Tim Cook. Jobs was eating beet salad, and then began to speak.

"'I'm going to give you a number, Bill, and if you like it, let's do it and just be done with this whole thing. Okay?' Bill agreed. Jobs passed a piece of paper to Nguyen and Bill nodded. The deal was done."

Typically, a corporation as large as Apple would spend months meeting in board rooms to hammer out the details of this deal. But Jobs had an uncanny way of doing things right the first time.

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