“They think customers are liars and cheats and, if given the chance, will rip off the company. To prevent that from happening, they develop ridiculous rules, policies, and procedures.”
John Tschohl
“Good company in a journey makes the way seem shorter.”
Izaak Walton
“Who keeps company with wolves will learn to howl”
Proverb
“One day soon the Gillette company will announce the development of a razor that, thanks to a computer microchip, can actually travel ahead in time and shave beard hairs that don't even exist yet”
Dave Barry
“Virtually every company will be going out and empowering their workers with a certain set of tools, and the big difference in how much value is received from that will be how much the company steps back and really thinks through their business processes…thinking through how their business can change, how their project management, their customer feedback, their planning cycles can be quite different than they ever were before.”
Bill Gates
“Discovery - A company that will go to the ends of the earth for its people will discover it can hire them for about 10% of the cost of Americans.”
Larry Kersten
“If you hire only those people you understand, the company will never get people better than you are. Always remember that you often find outstanding people among those you don't particularly like.”
Soichiro Honda