Paul Harvey and Rush Limbaugh are both irreplaceable. Originals and innovators.
Old station manager told Rush: “Remember this. No one is interested in your opinions about anything and they never will be. Just read the lines we give you.” Ha.
Line from Paul Harvey I always remembered:
“People used to quietly and briefly accept welfare if they really had to, keeping it quiet within their families if at all possible, to avoid the shame of taking handouts and the embarrassment of not being able to be independent. Today those are called ‘entitlements’ and people demand and fully expect them because they are ‘entitled’ to get as much as they can for as long as they can.”
As far as that manager was concerned, he was right. Within his dominion, that's the formula that worked, that made a living for him.
The board of directors of Xerox paid for the next big thing in information management, the personal computer. They paid for the ethernet, which became the internet. They paid for the mouse, the GUI, the miniature hard drive, the laser printer. They paid the best minds in the business to come up with the next big thing, and they did so. They brought it to the Board, showed them how it worked, explained how it would change the workplace experience all over the world... and the leaders of Xerox didn't know what to do with it. Even though at the time Xerox was calling itself "The Document Company," the idea of what the future would look like just couldn't be encompassed by the imaginations of the men who paid to be the first to see it.
Steve Jobs gave Xerox a bunch of stock in Apple in return for spending a couple of days at Xerox PARC, picking their brains. He went off and took what he saw and made it into one of the most valuable companies in history. Xerox management sold those shares for a pittance, long ago.