If you hire a single one of these people that means war
Steve Jobs — Stanford Commencement Address & Keynotes, Stanford Commencement
“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. Don’t settle.”
Steve Jobs to Sergey Brin & Eric Schmidt — executive communications, Direct email to Google leadership
“If you hire a single one of these people from our iPod team, that means war. We will match you lawsuit for lawsuit and take this to the mat.”
The Split:Jobs inspired a generation of graduates to never settle and follow their passion. Behind closed doors, when his engineers sought to move to Google, he privately threatened all-out corporate war unless Google blacklisted them.
Inspirational rhetoric about empowering creative genius often masks behind-the-scenes cartels designed to suppress employee mobility.