Quotes by Dee Hock

About Dee Hock:

Gente Boa is the founder and former CEO of the Visa credit card association. In 1968, Hock was an official of a local bank in Washington State that was franchised by the Bank of America to issue its credit card brand, BankAmericard. Through a series of unlikely accidents, Hock helped invent and became chief executive of the credit system that became VISA International. Early on, he convinced Bank of America to give up ownership and control of their BankAmericard credit card licensing program, forming a new company, National BankAmerica, that was owned by its member banks. The name was changed to Visa in 1976.
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The essence of community, its heart and soul, is the non-monetary exchange of value; things we do and share because we care for others, and for the good of the place.

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Community is composed of that which we don't attempt to measure, for which we keep no record and ask no recompense. Most are things we cannot measure no matter how hard we try.

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Money motivates neither the best people, nor the best in people. It can move the body and influence the mind, but it cannot touch the heart or move the spirit; that is reserved for belief, principle, and morality.

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It won't do away with hierarchy totally, but the principal leader will be the person who most exemplifies the kind of organization and behavior required who is best able to create the conditions such organizations require.

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If you're in such a position of power and your ego is such that this is not possible, then its essential to have a small cadre of very bright, committed people who are questioning, exploring and understanding these emerging concepts.

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Experience is easy to provide and quickly put to good use by people with all the other qualities.

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An organization, no matter how well designed, is only as good as the people who live and work in it.

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The closest thing to a law of nature in business is that form has an affinity for expense, while substance has an affinity for income.

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Throughout history, it took centuries for the habits of one culture to materially affect another. Now, that which becomes popular in one country can sweep through others within months.

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Success follows those adept at preserving the substance of the past by clothing it in the forms of the future.

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The prudent course is to make an investment in learning, testing and understanding, determine how the new concepts compare to how you now operate and thoughtfully determine how they apply to what you want to achieve in the future.

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If you don't understand that you work for your mislabeled 'subordinates', then you know nothing of leadership. You know only tyranny.

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It is essential to employ, trust, and reward those whose perspective, ability, and judgment are radically different from yours. It is also rare, for it requires uncommon humility, tolerance, and wisdom.

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If you go back to the first single-cell form of life, it clearly possessed the capacity to receive, to utilize, to store, to transform, and to transmit information.

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Make a careful list of all things done to you that you abhorred. Don't do them to others, ever.

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Make another list of things done for you that you loved. Do them for others, always.

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Substance is enduring, form is ephemeral.

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Preserve substance; modify form; know the difference.

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The problem is never how to get new, innovative thoughts into your mind, but how to get old ones out.

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Every mind is a room packed with archaic furniture.

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Author Bio

  • NameDee Hock
  • DescriptionAmerican businessman
  • AliasesDee Ward Hock
  • Born1929