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Our best ideas come from clerks and schoolboys.
Share your profits with all your associates, and treat them as partners. In turn, they will treat you as a partner, and together you will all perform beyond your wildest expectations.
A powerful new idea can kick around unused in a company for years, not because its merits are not recognised, but because nobody has assumed the responsibility for converting it from words to action.
'Ideas are Useless Unless Used,' Inc. (1981)
The organization exists to restrict and channel the range of individual actions and behaviors into a predictable and knowable routine.
Harvard Business Review (1963)
The open bins and store rooms were symbols of trust, a trust that is central to the way HP does business.
The HP Way (1995)
I've often thought that after you get organized, you ought to throw away the organization chart.
The Nation's Business (1974)
Overhead is something that creeps in. It's not something that overtakes you overnight.
The HP Way (1995)
A company has a greater responsibility than making money for its stockholders. We have a responsibility to our employees to recognize their dignity as human beings.
Downsizing has negative effects on companies. Early buyouts deplete the number of experienced, talented people, and multiple rounds of layoffs destroy employee commitment. Employees focus on keeping their jobs rather than on doing their best.
Quality Digest (1997)
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On Anger: "For every minute you remain angry, you give up sixty seconds of peace of mind."
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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."
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