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I try to create an environment in which others make decisions. Success means not making them myself.
Maverick! (1993)
The best way to invest corporate profits is to give them to the employees.
Large, centralized organizations foster alienation like stagnant ponds breed algae.
Maverick! (1993)
What is important is our openmindedness, our trust in our employees and distrust of dogma. We are neither socialist nor purely capitalist, but we take the best of these failed systems and others to reorganize work.
Maverick! (1993)
Get to know your people. What they do well, what they enjoy doing, what their weaknesses and strengths are, and what they want and need to get from their job.
Further Up the Organization (1984)
It is possible for a business venture to be an island of efficiency in a sea of sloth.
Speech (1967)
If the employees aren't satisfied, they won't promote the product we need.
Aviation Week and Space Technology (1990)
The more time I spend with our people, the more I find out about our business.
The Nation's Business (1991)
Your employees come first. And if you treat your employees right, guess what? Your customers come back, and that makes your shareholders happy. Start with employees and the rest follows from that.
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On Destiny: "Our destiny exercises its influence over us even when, as yet, we have not learned its nature: it is our future that lays down the law of our today."
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On Friendship: "A crowd is not company; and faces are but a gallery of pictures; and talk but a tinkling cymbal, where there is no love."
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