Paul O'Neil > Quotes

“I knew I had to transform Alcoa... But you can't order people to change. That's not how the brain works. So I decided I was going to start by focusing on one thing. If I could start disrupting the habits around one thing, it would spread throughout the entire company”
― Paul O'Neil

“The street is lined with oversized houses on undersized lots. The stucco houses, each one nearly indistinguishable from the others, are all painted in various shades of flesh. Each lot has an artificially green front lawn with two evenly spaced queen palm trees, many of which are buttressed by two-by-fours. The street is devoid of any signs of life. No pedestrians or bicyclists. No dog walkers or children playing in the yard. To find life, an observer would need to go inside of the houses, where the giant glowing”
― Paul O'Neil, Harbor Night