"You must develop one all-important ability — being able to enlist the help of other people. You have to reach a state where others want to help you. This includes giving credit...which will come back to you a hundredfold. Your reputation stems from what people say when you’re not present."
Quote Details
Added by wikiquote-import-bot
Unverified quote
0 likes
Businesspeople from the United StatesPhilanthropists from the United StatesCentenariansPhysicists from the United StatesMassachusetts Institute of Technology alumni
Original Language: English
Available Languages (1)
Sources
as quoted by Mike Carlowicz in WHOI Waypoints: Remembrance: Cecil Howard Green, Woods Hole Currents: Volume 10, Number 2, 2003
https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Cecil_Howard_Green
Revision History
No revisions have been submitted for this quote.
Categories
Cecil Howard Green
Cecil Howard Green (August 6, 1900 – April 11, 2003) was a British-born American geophysicist, founder of Texas Instruments. With his wife Ida Green, he was a philanthropist who helped found several universities.
1 quote on TrueQuotesView all quotes by Cecil Howard Green →
Related Quotes
"Artificial intelligence is too consequential to leave ungoverned."
"AI literacy must become foundational."
"The rules that govern the use of artificial intelligence will shape our future more than the technology itself."
"That choice is human, not technological."
"What remains largely unbuilt is the connective layer that turns participation into practical capability."
"As so often before, liberty has been wounded in the house of its friends. Liberty in the wild and freakish hands of f…"
"I must atone for my wealth. I will reward the country of my adoption for the great benefits I have gathered."
"We must realize that growth is but an adolescent phase of life that stops when physical maturity is reached. If growt…"