Hiring Quotes

• When I meet successful people I ask 100 questions as to what they attribute their success to. It is usually the same: persistence, hard work and hiring good people.

  Kiana Tom

  Inspirational, Hard Work, Successful

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• The key for us, number one, has always been hiring very smart people.

  Bill Gates

  Smart, Keys, Numbers

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• Never hire someone who knows less than you do about what he's hired to do.

  Malcolm Forbes

  Business, Insightful, Human Resources

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• I am convinced that nothing we do is more important than hiring and developing people. At the end of the day you bet on people, not on strategies.

  Lawrence Bossidy

  Relationship, Business, People

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• In looking for people to hire, look for three qualities: integrity, intelligence and energy. And if they don't have the first, the other two will kill you.

  Warren Buffett

  Inspirational, Motivational, Education

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• When I'm hiring, I don't look for credentials, I look for knowledge.

  Aza Raskin

  Inspirational, Looks, Intriguing

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• I’d rather interview 50 people and not hire anyone than hire the wrong person.

  Jeff Bezos

  People, Interviews, Wrong Person

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• Hiring people is an art, not a science, and resumes can't tell you whether someone will fit into a company's culture.

  Howard Schultz

  Art, Business, Technology

  "Grounds For Success". Interview with Scott S. Smith, www.entrepreneur.com. May, 1998.

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• The only thing more expensive than hiring a professional, is hiring an amateur.

  Red Adair

  Expensive

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• As a business owner or manager, you know that hiring the wrong person is the most costly mistake you can make.

  Brian Tracy

  Mistake, Wrong Person, Owners

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• Recently, I was asked if I was going to fire an employee who made a mistake that cost the company $600,000. No, I replied, I just spent $600,000 training him. Why would I want somebody to hire his experience?

  Thomas J. Watson

  Business, Mistake, Fire

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• The secret to successful hiring is this: look for the people who want to change the world.

  Marc Benioff

  Inspirational, Motivational, Success

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• You need to have a collaborative hiring process.

  Steve Jobs

  Insightful, Needs, Process

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• I would rather hire a man with enthusiasm, than a man who knows everything.

  John D. Rockefeller

  Men, Enthusiasm, Knows

  John D. Rockefeller (2015). “John D. Rockefeller on Making Money: Advice and Words of Wisdom on Building and Sharing Wealth”, p.32, Skyhorse Publishing, Inc.

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• If you pay peanuts, you get monkeys.

  James Goldsmith

  Funny, Inspiring, Money

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• I've said consistently that no employer ever really accepts a union. They tolerate the unions. The very minute they can get a pool of unemployment they'll challenge the unions and try to get back what they call managements prerogatives, meaning hire, fire, pay what you want.

  Jimmy Hoffa

  Fire, Challenges, Trying

  "Hoffa The Real Story" by Jimmy Hoffa, (p. 213), 1975.

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• I hire people brighter than me and then I get out of their way.

  Lee Iacocca

  People, Insightful, Way

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• The moment you feel the need to tightly manage someone, you've made a hiring mistake. The best people don't need to be managed. Guided, taught, led-yes. But not tightly managed.

  James C. Collins

  Business, Mistake, People

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• When I’m hiring a cook for one of my restaurants, and I want to see what they can do, I usually ask them to make me an omelette.

  Bobby Flay

  Want, Restaurants, Cooks

  "Bobby Flay Talks Battling Alton Brown And Giada De Laurentiis On ‘Food Network Star,’ Loving HBO’s ‘Girls’ & Angry Bobby Flay". Interview with Maggie Furlong, www.huffingtonpost.com. May 11, 2012.

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• Vin Diesel had to hire a babysitter.

  Vin Diesel

  Babysitter, Diesel

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• An axe at home saves hiring a carpenter.

  Friedrich Schiller

  Home, Carpenter

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• This is like the town council just hired a new marshal to clean up the town, I guarantee you, if I stay here long enough, they'll get rid of me, too.

  Bobby Knight

  Long, Guarantees, Towns

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• When you hire people that are smarter than you are, you prove you are smarter than they are.

  Robert Henry Grant

  Inspirational, Work, People

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• G.P.A.’s are worthless as a criteria for hiring, and test scores are worthless. We found that they don’t predict anything.

  Laszlo Bock

  Test Scores, Tests, Criteria

  "In Head-Hunting, Big Data May Not Be Such a Big Deal". Interview with Adam Bryant, www.nytimes.com. June 19, 2013.

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• If you think that hiring professionals is expensive, try hiring amateurs

  Red Adair

  Thinking, Trying, Ifs

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