Bob Woodward Quotes

If you cannot allow people to do their jobs ... nobody with substance and creativity will work for you.

If you want to make computers that really work, create a design team composed only of healthy, active women with lots else to do in their lives, and give them carte blanche.

Delegating doesn't mean passing off work you don't enjoy, but letting your employees stretch their skills and judgment.

As far as expectations go, you can never work for expectations. You have to work against them.

If you pick the right people and give them the opportunity to spread their wings and put compensation as a carrier behind it you almost don't have to manage them.

For me, this is a familiar image - people in the organization ready and willing to do good work, wanting to contribute their ideas, ready to take responsibility, and leaders holding them back, insisting that they wait for decisions or instructions.

The lack of available, good work inspires a lot of people to be self-creating.

My idea of management is that what your job is as the boss is to find really good people and empower them and leave them alone.

Tech companies are famous for providing freedom for engineers to customize their environments & experiment with new tools... allowing for this freedom helps creativity and productivity.

Manage by objectives. Tell people exactly what you want them to do and then get out of their way.

Hire great people and give them freedom to be awesome.

When employees tell you about their good ideas for the business, don't limit your response to asking questions, taking notes and following up. If you can, ask those people to lead their projects and take responsibility for them. From those experiences, they will then have built the confidence to take on more and you can take a further step back.

Life is too short to do mediocre work and it is definitely too short to build shitty things.

I don't have to explain anything to anybody.

We will be ourselves and free, or die in the attempt. Harriet Tubman was not our great-grandmother for nothing.

How can one be compelled to accept slavery? I simply refuse to do the master's bidding. He may torture me, break my bones to atoms and even kill me. He will then have my dead body, not my obedience. Ultimately, therefore, it is I who am the victor and not he, for he has failed in getting me to do what he wanted done.

We get to design what we want to see in the world rather than doing what other people think should be done.

I go out and I say and do what I want - even if people may find that shocking. One could, of course, decide to be suffocated by all the pomp here in Élysée Palace. But if you decide to resist it, then you won't be suffocated.

I love making things. I love building things. I love the idea that something's in the world that wasn't there before.

I don't need an alarm clock. My ideas wake me.

I know I'm sane I don't give a care for the crown or the shield I will not protect you or happily yield To the one who makes me come undone

Innovative organizations provide the freedom to act which arouses the desire to act.

Where all your rights become only an accumulated wrong; where men must beg with bated breath for leave to subsist in their own land, to think their own thoughts, to sing their own songs, to garner the fruits of their own labours...then surely it is a braver, a saner and a truer thing, to be a rebel in act and deed against such circumstances as these than tamely to accept it as the natural lot of men.

Disobedience is my joy!

By all means break the rules.