Tag: quotes

There’s a common hiring quote that goes “A players hire A players; B players hire C players.” It’s been ascribed to Steve Jobs. The TSC commentary to this rule: “But sometimes an A needs a job and a B is...

Here is another quote that has often been paraphrased, and the recursive nature of that concept is particularly appealing in this context: It can scarcely be denied that the supreme goal of all theory is to make the irreducible basic...

For some time now, we’ve been working with a senior retired banker from Lazard who is on our board of advisers. We essentially hired him to be our boss, in terms of helping us with strategic decisions, setting priorities, and...

“There are risks and costs to a program of action. But they are far less than the long-range risks and costs of comfortable inaction.” via. This expands on one of Mike’s favorite sayings to use with clients: “the unaimed arrow...

“In preparing for battle I have always found that plans are useless, but planning is indispensable.” We use this phrase a lot in two contexts: first, we freely admit, and accept, that our plans may not work out as expected,...