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David Packard Quotes:

David Packard quotes

Life: September 7, 1912 - March 26, 1996

Birthday: September 7

Death: March 26

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Marketing is too important to be left to the marketing department.

Topics: Business, Marketing, Important, Online Marketing, Marketers

quote marketing is too important to be left to the marketing department david packard Quotes

Take risks. Ask big questions. Don't be afraid to make mistakes; if you don't make mistakes, you're not reaching far enough.

Topics: Mistake, Risk, Enough

Avoid openly trying to reform people. Every man knows he is imperfect, but he doesn't want someone else trying to correct his faults. If you want to improve a person, help him embrace a higher working goal-a standard, an ideal-and he will do his own 'making over' far more effectively than you can do it for him.

Topics: Inspiring, Men, People

Management by Walking Around

Topics: Management, Walking

The betterment of society is not a job to be left to a few. It's a responsibility to be shared by all.

Topics: Jobs, Responsibility, Thought Provoking, Betterment

The greatest success goes to the person who is not afraid to fail in front of even the largest audience.

source: - "Bill & Dave: How Hewlett and Packard Built the World's Greatest Company". Book by Michael Shawn Malone (p. 393), 2007.

Topics: Entrepreneur, Failing, Not Afraid, Afraid To Fail

To remain static is to lose ground.

Topics: Static, Loses

Why are we here? I think many people assume, wrongly, that a company exists solely to make money. Money is an important part of a companys existence, if the company is any good. But a result is not a cause. We have to go deeper and find the real reason for our being.

Topics: Real, Thinking, People

More organizations die of indigestion than starvation

Topics: Organization, Indigestion, Starvation

Profit is not the proper end and aim of management - it is what makes all of the proper ends and aims possible

Topics: Business, Management, Economics

People, materials, facilities, money, and time are the resources available to us for conducting our business. By applying our skills, we turn these resources into useful products and services. If we do a good job, customers pay us more for our products than the sum of our costs in producing and distributing them. This difference, our profit, represents the value we add to the resources we utilize.

Topics: Jobs, Skills, Differences

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