INSIGHTS: First Person HEAR/SAY By Staff Monday, August 19, 2013 12:00 AM “A passive approach to professional growth will leave you by the wayside.” – Tom Peters, business management author “Too much action with too little intent makes for wasteful exertion of energy and the confusion between movement and progress.” – Steve Maraboli, behavioral scientist, author and speaker “Go where your customers take you…Sony’s first product was a rice cooker [and] has merely managed to become the world’s biggest consumer electronics company.” – Naveen Jain, business executive and entrepreneur “We believe that electricity exists because the electric company keeps sending us bills for it, but we cannot figure out how it travels inside wires.” – Dave Barry, author and columnist “The first rule of any technology used in a business is that automation applied to an efficient operation will magnify the efficiency. The second is that automation applied to an inefficient operation will magnify the inefficiency.” – Bill Gates “As our country increasingly relies on electronic information storage and communication, it is imperative that our government amend our information security laws accordingly.” – Jo Ann Davis, politician