David Packard
United States
7 Sep 1912 // 26 Mar 1996
Businessman
7 Sep 1912 // 26 Mar 1996
Businessman
Quotes
The open bins and store rooms were symbols of trust, a trust that is central to the way HP does business.
You establish some objectives for them, provide some incentive, and try not to direct the detailed way in which they do their work.
Written instructions are seldom adequate and personal involvement is essential.
The driving force for the development of new products is not technology, not money, but the imagination of people.
Overhead is something that creeps in. It's not something that overtakes you overnight.
Anyone can build market share and, if you set your prices low enough, you can get the whole damn market.
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On Anger: "For every minute you remain angry, you give up sixty seconds of peace of mind."
Essays
Essays
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."
Human, All Too Human
Human, All Too Human
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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Essays