Found Quotes: Room to Move

A handful of quotes on freedom and opportunity.

Six decrees of freedom:

Why does your desk have wheels?

Valve, Handbook for New Employees, first edition, March 2012, p. 6

Your work is going to fill a large part of your life, and the only way to be truly satisfied is to do what you believe is great work.

Steve Jobs, Stanford Commencement Address, June 12, 2005

You can move. You are not a tree condemned to a small plot while the wind and world abuses you.

Og Mandino, The Greatest Miracle in the World, 1975, p. 104

In the Knowledge Economy everyone is a volunteer, but we have trained our managers to manage conscripts.

Peter Drucker, Delphi IKMS conference, San Diego, 1998, as quoted by Dave Snowden

Responsible people thrive on freedom, and are worthy of freedom.

Netflix, Culture: Freedom & Responsibility, slide 42

Your performance as a manager of cloud seeding efforts should not be measured in fish.

Leadership should instead simply put out the mandate of “Go out and make it rain”.

Horace Dediu, Making rain, Asymco