Work Quotes

"Spend your time and effort on the core business."

"The middle management layers are where bureaucracy breeds."

"Meetings should be about making decisions, not discussing them."

"Your tenure is about managing the business you inherited and building the one to come."

"Complexity is the enemy of execution."

"A flat organization works only when you have shared values."

"I am much annoyed at your having altered my Note. You know I am always willing to make any required alterations myself, but that I cannot endlessly revise."

"I have no particular alteration to make in the concluding sentence except to say that I believe it will be highly satisfactory."

"I must occupy myself with pursuits that exercise the highest faculties."

"The work I have undertaken will require all my strength and dedication."

"The future of work will be defined by those who can bridge disciplines that have been separated too long."

"The work of our time is learning to think in systems rather than in isolated parts."

"The only way to do great work is to love what you do."

"Do what you can, with what you have, where you are."

"You have to be passionate about what you do."

"I was always more interested in solving problems than making money."

"I was always more interested in the process than the product."

"I was driven by a love of problem-solving."

"The greatest satisfaction comes from work that serves a purpose beyond yourself."

"The world needed computing, and I was willing to do the work to help create it."

"Stability can be obtained in a system if there exist appropriate feedback mechanisms."

"Games reveal the structure of strategic thinking in simplified form."

"The most important investment you can make is in people."

"Work that aligns with your values is not work. It's purpose."

"Work should challenge you and fulfill you in equal measure."

"Grove believed that a manager's output is the output of his organization."

"Output is the only thing that matters; all else is support."

"You have to create a culture where failure is not fatal, but stagnation is."

"A manager's job is to multiply the output of their team, not just their own."

"You can have the best strategy in the world if you cannot execute it."