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

— David Packard

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Marketing is far too important to be left only to the marketing department!.

David Packard cited in Philip Kotler (2000)

Set out to build a company and make a contribution, not an empire and a fortune.

The best company management is one that combines a sense of corporate greatness and destiny, with empathy for - and fidelity to - the average employee.

The most important question we have to deal with, is a combination of population control and the control of our environment — how to utilize the world in as effective a way as we can for the future of mankind.

David Packard in: Rushworth M. Kidder (1987)

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We spend our lives fighting to get people very slightly more stupid than ourselves to accept truths that the great men have always known.

Doris Lessing The Golden Notebook (1962)

To rank the effort above the prize may be called love.

Confucius

Greatness by nature includes a power, but not a will to power.

Martin Buber Between Man and Man (1965)

The weak shows his strength and hides his weaknesses; the magnificent exhibits his weaknesses like ornaments.

Nassim Nicholas Taleb The Bed of Procrustes: Philosophical and Practical Aphorisms (2010)

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