29 Quotes by David Packard

Avoid openly trying to reform people. Every man knows he is imperfect, but he doesn't want someone else trying to correct his faults. If you want to improve a person, help him embrace a higher working goal-a standard, an ideal-and he will do his own 'making over' far more effectively than you can do it for him.

I am perfectly aware that HP has never guaranteed absolute tenure status to its employees; but I also know that Bill and Dave never developed a premeditated business strategy that treated HP employees as expendable,

I could disagree with Lew but I never started a public campaign against him, ... He was such a decent person.

Take risks. Ask big questions. Don’t be afraid to make mistakes; if you don’t make mistakes, you’re not reaching far enough.

Management by Walking Around.

The betterment of society is not a job to be left to a few. It’s a responsibility to be shared by all.

More organizations die of indigestion than starvation.

Profit is not the proper end and aim of management – it is what makes all of the proper ends and aims possible.

He said that more businesses die from indigestion than starvation. I have observed the truth of that advice many times since then.