Chin-Ning Chu Quotes

When a manufacturing engineer is hired to create new products but insists on sharing his "wisdom" in accounting with the company controller, he is not going to last long in that company.

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  Chin-Ning Chu
  • Long
  • Wisdom
  • Engineer