Sloane Barbour

“Culture is the water in which we swim, and just like fish, we usually don’t know that it is there.”
― Trey Taylor, A CEO Only Does Three Things: Finding Your Focus in the C-Suite

“if you want to create and capture lasting value, don’t build an undifferentiated commodity business.”
― Peter Thiel, Zero to One: Notes on Startups, or How to Build the Future

“People at McDonald’s get trained for their positions, but people with far more complicated jobs don’t. It makes no sense. Would you want to stand on the line of the untrained person at McDonald’s? Would you want to use the software written by the engineer who was never told how the rest of the code worked? A lot of companies think their employees are so smart that they require no training. That’s silly. When I first became a manager,”
― Ben Horowitz, The Hard Thing About Hard Things: Building a Business When There Are No Easy Answers—Straight Talk on the Challenges of Entrepreneurship

“The original use of the word Culture comes to us from Latin, where the verb “colere” means “to tend and care for, to cultivate, to encourage by preparation of outside conditions.” So, in its original form, Culture was the result of what you cared about.”
― Trey Taylor, A CEO Only Does Three Things: Finding Your Focus in the C-Suite