William Hewlett Quotes & Sayings

I have learnt to love you late, Beauty at once so ancient and so new! — Saint Augustine

Maybe I'm more drawn to those kind of parts because they are meaningful to me. I mean, more parent-y ones, I find them interesting to do. — Joan Cusack

Markets themselves are looking for stability, and I think we have underestimated the capacity of Europe ... to actually create a more stable framework for the whole issue of debt management, bonds, and so on. — George Papandreou

Moral indignation is a technique used to endow the idiot with dignity. — Marshall McLuhan

All mythology masters and dominates and shapes the forces of nature in and through the imagination; hence it disappears as soon as man gains mastery over the forces of nature — Karl Marx

Creativity is an area in which younger people have a tremendous advantage, since they have an endearing habit of always questioning past wisdom and authority. — William Redington Hewlett

Look: the trees exist; the houses we dwell in stand there stalwartly. Only we pass by it all, like a rush of air. And everything conspires to keep quiet about us, half out of shame perhaps, half out of some secret hope. — Rainer Maria Rilke

If I have to tell a guy he's got something to do, I consider myself a failure as a manager. — William Redington Hewlett

If you don't fail on a regular basis, you are not trying hard enough. — William Redington Hewlett

Managers have traditionally developed the skills in finance, planning, marketing and production techniques. Too often the relations with their people have been assigned a secondary role. This is too important a subject not to receive first-line attention. In this regard we could learn much from the Japanese. We must reinvest in the human side of management. — William Redington Hewlett

Men and women want to do a good job, and if they are provided the proper environment, they will do so. — William Reddington Hewlett

I think what everyone should be doing, before it's too late, is committing themselves to what they really want to do with their lives. — Matthieu Ricard

There is a time and a place for creativity. — William Redington Hewlett

You fool," she says. "You eager, egotistical fool. Grand Moff. Pfah. You have so much, so wrong. The Ravager is not the last weapon. Nor do I even control it. There is ... another." His face twitches. "You don't mean ... " "I do mean. He's not dead." "But you said he was." "I lied." She shrugs. "This was ... all his plan. Wasn't it? I should've seen it. I fell for a trap. We all fell for your trap. You betrayer. You foul, wretched betrayer. — Chuck Wendig

Problems, however, are rarely solved on the spur of the moment. They must be organized and dissected, then key issues isolated and defined. A period of gestation then sets in, during which these issues are mulled over. You put them in your mind and consciously or unconsciously work at them at odd hours of the day or night - even at work. It is somewhat analogous to trying to place a name on the face of someone you've met before. Often the solution to a problem comes to you in much the same way you eventually recall the name. — William Redington Hewlett

Every good leader is part manager and every good manager is part leader. — Condoleezza Rice

Of all your associations, it is your relationship with God, your Heavenly Father, who is the source of your moral power. — D. Todd Christofferson

Never try to take a fortified hill, especially if the Army on top is bigger than you are. — William Reddington Hewlett

Had there been any existent vital and energetic institution left in Society after the Reformation for the use of small property in coordinated form-that is, in combination, so that the average man's holding could be put to useful purpose in company with the holdings of a great number of other men of his own sort, the new evils would not have arisen. — Hilaire Belloc

Creative people have an abiding curiosity and an insatiable desire to learn how and why things work. They take nothing for granted. They are interested in things around them and tend to stow away bits and pieces of information in their minds for the future use. And, they have a great ability to mobilize their thinking and experiences for use in solving a new problem. — William Redington Hewlett

We felt that the employees would take a greater interest in work if they felt they were part of the company. — William Redington Hewlett

The job of a manager is to support his or her staff, not vice versa, and that begins by being among them. — William Redington Hewlett