Vignesh Chandrasekaran

“GE’s Borch, for one, read the profit-and-loss statements of all his departments every year and told them to stop spending on paper clips. Budgeting and control were at least one part of leadership, but such immersion in detail has its obvious limitations.”
― Duff McDonald, The Firm

“The longer you wait to fire someone the longer it has been since you should have fired them,”
― Ashlee Vance, Elon Musk: Inventing the Future

“If there was a way that I could not eat, so I could work more, I would not eat. I wish there was a way to get nutrients without sitting down for a meal.”
― Ashlee Vance, Elon Musk: Inventing the Future

“If the education system in America tended to teach students how to be an employee, British design students were more likely to pursue a passion and to build a team around them.”
― Leander Kahney, Jony Ive: The Genius Behind Apple’s Greatest Products