"What disheartens me is how little care and appreciation any of them give (...) to hard-working and loyal employees, and how unnecessarily cruel and demeaning they could be to the people who helped make their dreams come true."

"the more employees feel their needs are being met at work – above all, for respect and appreciation – the better they perform"

"Mr. Jobs drove around without a license on his car, and he regularly parked in spaces reserved for the handicapped. As Mr. Ive said of his attitude, “I think he feels he has a liberty and a license to do that. The normal rules of social engagement, he feels, don’t apply to him.”"

"Amazon employees collected examples of Mr. Bezos’s most eviscerating put-downs, including, “Are you lazy or just incompetent?” “Why are you wasting my life?” and “I’m sorry, did I take my stupid pills today?”"
==> sounds like sheldon Cooper :-D

"The more apt question is how much more these men could have enhanced thousands of people’s lives – and perhaps made them even more successful — if they had invested as much in taking care of them as they did in conceiving great products."

"“Try not to become a man of success,” Albert Einstein once said, “but rather a man of value.”"
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