Business Quote by Brad Stone

“All new hires had to directly improve the outcome of the company. He wanted doers—engineers, developers, perhaps merchandise buyers, but not managers. “We didn’t…

— Brad Stone

From the day Microsoft was started, the only constraint to our growth has been attracting ah, more great programmers, very smart, committed, ah, people.…

— Bill Gates

“managers hire great people was a far more lucrative”

— Lou Adler

Many companies aspire to change the world. But very few have all the elements required: talent, resources and perseverance. Microsoft has proven that it…

— Satya Nadella

To many managers, getting rid of the arrogant, undisciplined, over-paid, technology-obsessed, improperly-dressed etc. programmers would appear to be a significant added benefit

— Bjarne Stroustrup

“Companies are run by computers. Profit margins are sliced thin. And no manager dare raise his eyes from his accounts long enough to learn…

— Len Deighton

“He strode briskly away, to do whatever it was the managers did. Have meetings, I guess. Make phone calls. It was hard for us…

— Max Barry

“It is best to be the CEO; it is satisfactory to be an early employee, maybe the fifth or sixth or perhaps the tenth.…

— Ellen Ullman

“Understand that a great manager is essentially an organizational engineer.”

— Ray Dalio

“It was a mystery with one intriguing clue: programmers from the same companies performed at more or less the same level, even though they…

— Susan Cain

“no manager at any level can expect to succeed without the skill set of an organizational engineer.”

— Ray Dalio

Microsoft develops a lot of software that allows people to realize their potential.

— Arfa Karim