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The only vital value an enterprise has is the experience, skills, innovativeness and insights of its people
Leif Edvinsson, Swedish Intellectual Capital guru in Corporate Longitude (2002)

The soft stuff is always harder than the hard stuff
Roger Enrico, Vice Chairman of PepsiCo, referring to areas like HRM as opposed to quantitative factors in Fortune, November 27th, 1995:-P

I believe in the adage: Hire people smarter than you and get out of their way
Howard Schultze, CEO of coffee chain Starbucks (1994)
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Do you want to spend the rest of your life selling sugared water or do you want a chance to change the world?
Steve Jobs of Apple Computer, inviting John Scully, then President of PepsiCo, to join Apple in Fortune, September 14th, 1987:icon6::huh:

The Baring family lost its bank because the management overempowered one individual, Nick Leeson
John Micklethwait in The Witch Doctors (1996)
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Take our 20 best people away, and I will tell you that Microsoft would become an unimportant company
Bill Gates, CEO of Microsoft in Fortune, November 25th, 1996

True motivation comes from achievement, personal development, job satisfaction, and recognition
Frederick Herzberg 1923-2000, US psychlogist

If an institution wants to be adaptive, it has to let go of some control and trust that people will work on the right things in the right way
Robert B. Shapiro, CEO of chemical company Monsanto in Harvard Business Review, Jan-Feb 1997

Hi
No doubt about stating that the most useful and valuable asset is human resources but unfortunately there is no universally accepted measure for its utility and contribution. The acounting wizards must develop a measure which is acceptable and easily usable universally.
Dr. Vasudeva Reddy Ravula

Recruitment agencies and HR professionals