If each of us hires people who are smaller than we are, we shall become a company of dwarfs. But if each of us hires people who are bigger than we are, we shall become a company of giants.
Quotes about dwarfs (16 Quotes)
If you always hire people who are smaller than you are, we shall become a company of dwarfs. If, on the other hand, you always hire people who are bigger than you are, we shall become a company of giants.
Sometimes I find myself thinking, rather wistfully, about Lao Tzu's famous dictum 'Govern a great nation as you would cook a small fish.' All around me I see something very different, let us say a number of angry dwarfs trying to grill a whale.
Because our military power dwarfs that of other countries - we spend more on defense than the rest of the world combined - this Administration believes that alliances and international institutions are more of a burden than a benefit. They allow the Lilliputians to tie down Gulliver.
A trifling piece of Europe is making life unbearable for mankind. The Czechs, the vile race of dwarfs without any culture - nobody even knows where they came from - are oppressing a civilized race, and behind them, together with Moscow, there can be seen.
There is something about music that keeps its distance even at the moment that it engulfs us. It is at the same time outside and away from us and inside and part of us. In one sense it dwarfs us, and in another we master it.
Just as a Chihuahua is still a dog, these ice dwarfs are still planetary bodies. The misfit becomes the average. The Pluto-like objects are more typical in our solar system than the nearby planets we first knew.
It's a new era at Disney. From now on, Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs will be known as Person of No Color and the Seven Vertically Challenged Individuals.
The U.S. - E.U. economic relationship dwarfs America's economic ties with China.
The force of the advertising word and image dwarfs the power of other literature in the 20th century.
Once again, the shedders of innocent blood, the dwarfs who have only known treachery, treason and aggression, have perpetrated a new crime the assassination of a senior Iraqi diplomat.
Bigotry dwarfs the soul by shutting out the truth.
The most striking thing to us is that the size of the problem still totally dwarfs the policy response. We have no greater fear than a terrorist who is inside the United States with a nuclear weapon. The consequences of such an attack would be catastrophic for our people, for our economy, for our liberties.
When you buy IT from anybody, the basic assumption is that it will be obsolete within 18 months, sometimes even before you install it. As soon as you buy something, you have to figure out how to get off of it. This is the barrier to exit. If you're not moving forward, you won't be able to take advantage of all the security features you need, and the barrier to exit dwarfs the cost of buying and installing the equipment in the first place.
If each of us hires people smaller than we are, we shall become a company of dwarfs.
Among giants, try and be a dwarf among dwarfs, try and be a giant but among equals, try and be an equal.