“I’m happy about the fact that I’ve retired more people than I’ve fired.”
That quote is from a friend of mine and wins my Business Philosophy of the Year award. In a period of time when you hear stories in the news about how the rich keep getting richer, you see wall street firms imploding under their own house of cards that they built, and you hear stories from friend after friend of how mis-managed the companies that they work for are that hearing someone who is building a business make a statement like that is down right impressive. (Even more so when you know them well enough that it comes from the person’s heart and they mean it.)
I guess it’s the fact that true sentiment like that is so hard to find when you work in the get rich quick world of high technology and vulture capitalists that I felt it was worth sharing…
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