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If each of us hires people who are smaller than we are, we shall become a company of dwarfs. But if each of us hires people who are bigger than we are, we shall become a company of giants.

— David Ogilvy

Sentiment: NEGATIVE

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✓Similar Perspectives

Big jobs usually go to the men who prove their ability to outgrow small ones.

— Theodore Roosevelt

Where talent is a dwarf, self-esteem is a giant.

— John Petit-Senn

Human beings are much bigger than just making money.

— Muhammad Yunus

A dwarf who brings a standard along with him to measure his own size, take my word, is a dwarf in more articles than one.

— Laurence Sterne

He who attends to his greater self becomes a great man, and he who attends to his smaller self becomes a small man.

— Mencius

I think it's absolutely essential that the people that work for a company need to feel that they're part of something bigger - that it's not just a job.

— John Mackey

Small business creates more jobs than large corporations.

— Kevin McCarthy

A great advantage of a large corporation is supposed to be the large pool of talent in which its leaders can find and groom high achievers and successors.

— Margaret Heffernan

We may seem great in an employment below our worth, but we very often look little in one that is too big for us.

— Francois de La Rochefoucauld

✗Opposing Perspectives

If guys try to make a bigger company for the sake of size, they don't create value in most cases.

— Carlos Ghosn