Herbert Read Quotes

The individual has become a mere cog in an enormous organization of things and powers which tear from his hands all progress, spirituality, and value in order to transform them from their subjective form into the form of a purely objective life.

I hadn't really worked in an office before Shutterstock, so I didn't have the experience of building a culture, nor did I understand how important that is for attracting and retaining the best talent.

An organization, no matter how well designed, is only as good as the people who live and work in it.

In talking to founder after founder; I've heard almost visceral reactions to working for companies, even very cool ones with great things to work on and lots of opportunity, like Facebook, Google, or consulting firms.

Workmen are not machinery but intelligent and high strung individuals.

'Office Space' I loved doing.

Going to work for a large company is like getting on a train. Are you going sixty miles an hour or is the train going sixty miles an hour and you're just sitting still?

A company is only as good as the people it keeps.

In fact, the individual outlook becomes less and less valuable and more and more harmful unless it is transmitted into the corporate outlook.

Corporations are social organizations, the theater in which men and women realize or fail to realize purposeful and productive lives.

The notion that employees and companies have a social contract with each other that goes beyond a paycheck has largely vanished in United States business.

Employees are your most valuable assets. They are the heart and guts of a company. This doesn't mean that from time to time, you aren't going to do what is good for the company.

The corporate world is appallingly bad at capitalizing on the strengths of its people.

Today's business climate is not for me.

No institution can possibly survive if it needs geniuses or supermen to manage it. It must be organized in such a way as to be able to get along under a leadership composed of average human beings.

We must make working life more human.

I have lots of sources of information about what's going on at the company. I think I have a pretty good pulse on where we are and what people are thinking.

When your boss and colleagues care enough to invest in your health, it is good for you and the business.

I love working for Disney! They are my family.

I hate this fast growing tendency to chain men to machines in big factories and deprive them of all joy in their efforts - the plan will lead to cheap men and cheap products.

I don't believe very much in corporate offices. I believe in leaders who are with their customers and their people.

Most men are individuals no longer so far as their business, its activities, or its moralities are concerned. They are not units but fractions.

The tendency in lots of large organizations is to try and find a comfortable place where you think you can get measured rewards for measured work.

The one thing that people don't get about GE is that, to the people who work here, it's not a company. It's not just a job. You feel like you're part of a 120-year-old ever-growing, ever-improving family.

The prevailing system of management has crushed fun out of the workplace.