"A firm is successful when the costs of directing employee effort are lower than the potential gain from directing."

-- Clay Shirky

#Successful Quotes #Effort Quotes #Gains Quotes

“The bicycle is a great good. But it can turn nasty, if ill employed.”
“My original idea was to produce and not make records myself.”
“You renew yourself every day. Sometimes you're successful, sometimes your not, but it's the average that counts”

Source : "Take A Closer Look At Satya Nadella, Who Could Become Microsoft's Next CEO" by Julie Bort, www.businessinsider.com. December 18, 2013.
“The act of self-denial seems to confer on us the right to be harsh and merciless toward others. The impression somehow prevails that the true believer, particularly the religious individual, is a humble person. The truth is that the surrendering and humbling of the self breed pride and arrogance. The true believer is apt to see himself as one of the chosen, the salt of the earth, a prince disguised in meekness, who is destined to inherit this earth and the kingdom of heaven, too. He who is not of his faith is evil; he who will not listen shall perish.”
“This may sound pretentious, but I don't like being thought of as 'the Metal Gear guy.' There's a lot more I can do.”
“Why do I talk about the benefits of failure? Simply because failure meant a stripping away of the inessential. I stopped pretending to myself that I was anything other than what I was, and began to direct all my energy into finishing the only work that mattered to me.”
“My chief job is to constantly stir or rekindle the curiosity of people that gets driven out by bureaucracy and formal schooling systems.”
“It is dismal coming home, when there is nobody to welcome one!”

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