“We hired truly great people and gave them the room to do great work. A lot of companies [...] hire people to tell them what to do. We hire people to tell us what to do. We figure we're paying them all this money; their job is to figure out what to do and tell us.”
Original source
Steve Jobs, 1996, Fresh Air radio interview by Terry Gross, npr.org, audio 26:30/31:05 ↗
Steve Jobs, 1996, Fresh Air radio interview by Terry Gross, npr.org, audio 26:30/31:05 ↗
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