Being Quote by Edwin Catmull

“Believe me, you don’t want to be at a company where there is more candor in the hallways than in the rooms where fundamental…

— Ed Catmull

If you peek behind the curtain at any type of company, you'll see that things are far less organized than you'd expect.

— Neil Blumenthal

Building a company is basically taking all the irrational people you know... Putting them in one building and then living with them 12 hrs…

— Keith Rabois

I don't like the sort of hierarchical, totalitarian type of room a lot of directors can find themselves in.

— Adam Rapp

...I think that ideally that is how a company works. It becomes a place of ideas, not a place of position.

— Jack Welch

Every company has room for the man who has a definite plan of action which is to the advantage of that company.

— Napoleon Hill

It's easy to forget how little strategic thinking ever gets done in the day. Judging by the ideas generated there, our beds have more…

— Alain de Botton

“From reserved parking places to separate bathrooms, the last things managers need are extravagant status symbols that tell them that they are better than…

— Dean M. Schroeder

I don't think I could ever work in such a blatantly hierarchical corporate setting. I know that everyone in this world is not equal,…

— Peter Cameron

Every company, every boardroom in which I sit, has a plan, and they have objectives, goals, and a process. And to make it work,…

— Vernon Jordan

If new ideas are the lifeblood of any thriving organisation-and, trust me, they are-managers must learn to revere, not merely tolerate, the people who…

— Mark McCormack

Appealing workplaces are to be avoided. One wants a room with no view, so imagination can meet memory in the dark.

— Annie Dillard