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Employers and business leaders need people who can think for themselves - who can take initiative and be the solution to problems.
I'm just a guy who probably should have been a semi-talented poet on the Left Bank. I got sort of side-tracked here.

Fortune (October 1, 1984)
Your work is going to fill a large part of your life, and the only way to be truly satisfied is to do what you believe is great work. And the only way to do great work is to love what you do. If you haven't found it yet, keep looking. Don't settle. As with all matters of the heart, you'll know when you find it.
How come when I want a pair of hands I get a human being as well?

My Life and Work (rewritten with Samuel Crowther; 1922)
There is joy in work. There is no happiness except in the realization that we have accomplished something.
A young person entering the work force in 2000...has almost no chance of working for the same company even a decade hence. In this world people must take responsibility for their own futures. They cannot simply count on ascending a career ladder.

Forbes.com, 2000
Wage is determined, in the last result, by the consumer, without regard to the needs or expectations of the worker.

Management (1974)
Somebody once said that in looking for people to hire, you look for three qualities: integrity, intelligence, and energy. And if you don�t have the first, the other two will kill you. You think about it; it�s true. If you hire somebody without integrity, you really want them to be dumb and lazy.
If a job doesn�t excite you on some level�just because of the stuff of it � don�t settle.
In terms of doing work and in terms of learning and evolving as a person, you just grow more when you get more people's perspectives... l really try and live the mission of the company and... keep everything else in my life extremely simple.
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