"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."
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Steve Jobs
1955 – 2011
US-amerikanischer Unternehmer
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