“We hired truly great people and gave them the room to do gre…”

“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.”

— Steve Jobs

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Jobs, Steve. (n.d.). Wikiquote: Steve Jobs. Wikiquote. https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Steve_Jobs

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