Dee Hock Quotes

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Community is composed of that which we don't attempt to measure, for which we keep no record and ask no recompense. Most are things we cannot measure no matter how hard we try.

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It is not making better people of others that management is about. It's about making a better person of self. Income, power, and titles have nothing to do with that.

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Making good judgments when one has complete data, facts, and knowledge is not leadership - it's bookkeeping

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Given the right circumstances, from no more than dreams, determination, and the liberty to try, quite ordinary people consistently do extraordinary things

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Heaven is purpose, principle, and people. Purgatory is paper and procedure. Hell is rules and regulations.

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The reason is still difficult to explain, but it is not complicated. That inner voice that will not be denied, once we learn to listen to it, had whispered since the beginning, "Business is not what your life is about. Founding VISA and being its chief executive officer is something you must do, but it's only preparatory."

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We are at that very point in time when a 400-year old age is rattling in its death bed and another is struggling to be born.

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Failure is not to be feared. It is from failure that most growth comes.

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With the advent of genetic engineering the time required for the evolution of new species may literally collapse.

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