25 HR Quotes by Tech Executives

Recently we have seen many changes in the way we manage our business. Technology has become part of our everyday life. This prompted me to find what Tech Executives think about "Human Resources" in their organizations. Following are the 25 quotes by eminent leaders in the field of technology. They reflect how people had contributed to creating value for their organizations. You may know few HR quotes by Tech Executives, please add them in the comments.

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25 HR Quotes by Tech Executives from Vijay Bankar

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Following is the list of quotes covered in the above presentation:

1. "The process of adapting to change starts with employees who, through their daily work, adjust to the new outside forces." - Andrew Grove
2. "Leaders are those who empower others." - Bill Gates
3. "The highest calling of leadership is to unlock the potential of others." - Carly Fiorina
4. "The coach doesn't have to play the sport as well as you do. They have to watch you and get you to be your best." - Eric Schmidt
5. "To me, I learned along the way, you know, culture is behavior. That's all it is; culture is people's behaviors." - Ginni Rometty
6. "One thing a leader does is to remove the stigma of mistakes." - Gordon Moore
7. "I spend 90% of my time with people who don't report to me." - Jack Dorsey
8. "You have to maintain a culture of transformation and stay true to your values." - Jeff Weiner
9. "Updating the skills we have and developing the new ones we need is a mutual responsibility, one shared between the individual and the company." - John F. Akers
10. "We focus first on the people and how we incorporate them into our company, and then we focus on how to drive the business." - John Chambers
11. "You treat people with respect, they tend to return the favor to the company." - Larry Page
12. "An organization is nothing more than the collective capacity of its people to create value." - Louis Gerstner
13. "I would only hire someone to work directly for me if I was willing to work for that person." - Mark Zuckerberg
14. "If you have fun at your job, I think you're going to be more effective." - Meg Whitman
15. "We’re now much better at picking people. And we’ve also gotten much better at developing them." - Michael Dell
16. "Pay attention to your culture and your hires from the very beginning." - Reid Hoffman
17. "If ethics are poor at the top, that behavior is copied down through the organization." - Robert Noyce
18. "At the core of the products we build, I want to think about productivity centered around people." - Satya Nadella
19. "Our employees, who have named themselves Googlers, are everything." - Sergey Brin
20. "In the future, there will be no female leaders. There will just be leaders." - Sheryl Sandberg
21. "It doesn’t make sense to hire smart people and tell them what to do; we hire smart people so they can tell us what to do." - Steve Jobs
22. "Wherever smart people work, doors are unlocked." - Steve Wozniak
23. "Google teams have lots of autonomy, including from people like me." - Sundar Pichai
24. "Knowing whose advice to take and on what topic is the single most important decision an entrepreneur can make." - Vinod Khosla
25. "The job of a manager is to support his or her staff, not vice versa, and that begins by being among them." - William Hewlett