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Dee Hock is the founder of Visa
His writing after retiring from Visa is even more fascinating than Visa's success
I feel very lucky to have found @deehock's work
Decades before Twitter, Dee was packing a lifetime of wisdom in his tweet-sized observations
Here's a few of them:
His writing after retiring from Visa is even more fascinating than Visa's success
I feel very lucky to have found @deehock's work
Decades before Twitter, Dee was packing a lifetime of wisdom in his tweet-sized observations
Here's a few of them:
(consider reading them slowly)
Every mountain is two mountains: the one that urges us to climb and the one that punishes us when we do.
- Dee Hock
- Dee Hock
The ferocity with which a dog defends its bone tells us a great deal more about the nature of the dog than the quality of the bone.
- Dee Hock
- Dee Hock
Habits are never in a hurry.
- Dee Hock
- Dee Hock
Nature will never take direction from us no matter how much havoc we create in the attempt.
- Dee Hock
- Dee Hock
Despite the desperate effort of parents to teach their children good behavior, children continue to behave pretty much like their parents.
- Dee Hock
- Dee Hock
Politicians are addicted to mendacity, indecision, and inaction because they know that such things are rarely noticed, readily forgiven, and quickly forgotten, while a mistake is usually detected, seldom forgiven, and rarely forgotten.
- Dee Hock
- Dee Hock
People who set out to rule are never free. They are forever chained to the mob whether it be rebellious or subservient.
- Dee Hock
- Dee Hock
A fool is no less a fool when a wise man errs.
- Dee Hock
- Dee Hock
Tyranny shouts, “You must!”
Leadership whispers, “Perhaps we should.”
- Dee Hock
Leadership whispers, “Perhaps we should.”
- Dee Hock
The pleasures of youth are the pains of old age, just as the pleasures of old age are the pains of youth.
- Dee Hock
- Dee Hock
To speak is craft; to listen is art.
- Dee Hock
- Dee Hock
We judge others harshly by the standards we profess rather than those we practice. Yet we resent it bitterly when they return the favor.
- Dee Hock
- Dee Hock
Vice and virtue have one thing in common: the more people have of either, the less they think they have.
- Dee Hock
- Dee Hock
Without purpose will is blind. Without will purpose is impotent. Without ethical and moral content both are barren at best and dangerous at worst.
- Dee Hock
- Dee Hock
One should not read like a dog obeying its master, but like an eagle hunting its prey.
- Dee Hock
- Dee Hock
When we fully attend to the management of self, excellent management of all else is unavoidable.
- Dee Hock
- Dee Hock
Old people have so little left of life they should cease trying to make it bring what they desire and make the most of what it offers. Come to think of it, that’s not bad policy for young people as well.
- Dee Hock
- Dee Hock
Man is the only animal that will squander living to prolong existence.
- Dee Hock
- Dee Hock
It is not more answers we need, but better questions. It is not more action we need, but deeper reflection. It is not more knowledge we need, but profounder wisdom. It is not more technology we need, but greater aspirations.
- Dee Hock
- Dee Hock
Those who despise people are the most desperate to be favorably recognized by them.
- Dee Hock
- Dee Hock
Ignorance is a great deal more eager to instruct wisdom than wisdom is to instruct ignorance.
- Dee Hock
- Dee Hock
The world of Homo sapiens is, indeed, a fantasyland, for we seek to control organizations, peoples, economies, and nature with minds that can’t control their own thoughts and emotions for thirty seconds.
- Dee Hock
- Dee Hock
Love, share, accept, care; what else matters?
- Dee Hock
- Dee Hock
Best part is that Dee Hock is active on Twitter.
Here's his account:
@deewhock
(I misspelled it in my original tweet)
Here's his account:
@deewhock
(I misspelled it in my original tweet)
