This & That, Ceci et Cela

“I am not in the factory-owning business. If I have something that needs to be made on a large scale, I’ll call somebody up in China or Germany (probably the former). Let them worry about the machine operator’s pension fund. I have better things to think about. So do Coca-Cola and Nike, which is why most of their stuff is outsourced. I have ideas I want to see expressed. Being paternal on an industrial scale is not one of them. A company’s primary role is not to make or do stuff. A company’s primary role is to function as an “idea amplifier.”

“The hardest part of a CEO’s job is sharing his enthusiasm with his colleagues, especially when a lot of them are making one-fiftieth of what he is. Selling the company to the general public is a piece of cake compared to selling it to the actual people who work for it”.

-How many CEOs are actually worth their salaries? How many times have you thought your attitude about working gazillion hours overtime would be oh, so-much-better if you were pulling in the same pay as that schmucko-VP? The flip side of that is, such a little factoid could be used as a big motivation for leaving to be your own boss or to otherwise better and elevate yourself.