Olyan Quotes & Sayings

People who work for me know that they have a lot of autonomy. I like to know what's going on, and I'll offer my opinion, but I want people to feel that they can say to me, "That's great that you have that opinion, but, no, we're not going to do that." — Harry West

My goal is to get people thinking and trying to wrap their heads around the amazing things that have been achieved and to dream about what will be achieved. — Neil Turok

We hired extremely slowly at the beginning. It took us a year to get to four people. It's hard to hire as a very small company, and we wanted to make sure we found people who cared a lot about what Stripe was doing. — John Collison

She introduced herself to my parents with one of her mighty, bunny-crushing handshakes. (I'd never seen Claudia crush a bunny, to be fair, but that's the approximate level of pressure.) — Maureen Johnson

Don't know much about history, don't know much biology, don't know much about a science book, don't know much about the French I took. — Sam Cooke

But this, too, wasn't true. Leaving was easy. It was everything else that was so dammed hard. — Sarah Dessen