Laszlo Bock Quotes

#1. I do what I have always done. I reach across and bring the worlds together.

Rachel Hartman

#2. There is a great advantage in training under unfavorable conditions. It is better to train under bad conditions, for the difference is then a tremendous relief in a race.

Emil Zatopek

#3. We've found that trusting people to do the right thing generally results in them doing the right thing. Allowing people to reward one another facilitates a culture of recognition and service, and is a way to show employees that they should be thinking like owners rather than serfs.

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#4. Part of the challenge with leadership is that it's very driven by gut instinct in most cases - and even worse, everyone thinks they're really good at it. The reality is that very few people are.

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#5. It is the nature of carnivores to get power and then, having disposed of their enemies, to deploy the emollient powers of Great Art to make themselves look like herbivores.

Robert Hughes

#6. G.P.A.'s are worthless as a criteria for hiring, and test scores are worthless. We found that they don't predict anything.

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#7. As long as ratings are directly linked to pay and career opportunities, every employee has this incentive to exploit the system.

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#8. There's just one other twist. Googlers working in engineering or product management can nominate themselves for promotion.

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#9. Down from the door where it began. Now far ahead the Road has gone, And I must follow, if I can, Pursuing it with weary feet, Until it joins some larger way, Where many paths and errands meet. And whither then? I cannot say.

J.R.R. Tolkien

#10. The focus on process rather than purpose creates an insidious opportunity for sly employees to manipulate the system.

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#11. What happens when it's 2 a.m. and you're alone in a hotel room with the devil's minibar? Minibar - one; Marissa - zero.

Marissa Jaret Winokur

#12. One of the applications of Big Data is giving people the facts, and getting them to understand that their own decision-making is not perfect. And that in itself causes them to change their behavior

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#13. If your goals are ambitious and crazy enough, even failure will be a pretty good achievement.

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#14. What we care about is, when faced with a problem and you're a member of a team, do you, at the appropriate time, step in and lead. And just as critically, do you step back and stop leading, do you let someone else?

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#15. We want to understand what works here rather than what worked at any other organization.

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#16. The kind of workman who gives the business the best that is in him is the best kind of workman a business can have. And he cannot be expected to do this indefinitely without proper recognition.

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#17. I don't think you'll ever replace human judgment and human inspiration and creativity because, at the end of the day, you need to be asking questions like, O.K., the system says this. Is this really what we want to do? Is that the right thing?

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#18. It's feeling the sense of responsibility, the sense of ownership, to step in, to try to solve any problem - and the humility to step back and embrace the better ideas of others. Your end goal, is what can we do together to problem-solve. I've contributed my piece, and then I step back.

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#19. When you're the only sane person, you look like the only insane person.

Criss Jami

#20. These men of Law and their confederates ... the caterpillars of this Kingdom, who with their uncontrolled exactions and extortions, eat up the free-born people of this Nation.

Bathsua Makin