Hiring Quotes - Page 11

• My company believes in hiring people based on merit.

  Azim Premji

  Believe, People, Merit

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• Immigration reform is important in our country. We have a lot of employers over on the beaches that rely upon workers and especially in this high-growth environment, where are you going to get people to work to clean our hotel rooms or do our landscaping? We don't need to put those employers in a position of hiring undocumented and illegal workers.

  Alex Sink

  Country, Beach, Rely Upon

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• I'm tempted to say, 'Writing treatments is like designing a film by hiring six million monkeys to tear out pages of an encyclopedia, then you put the pages through a paper-shredder, randomly grab whatever intact lines are left, sing them in Italian to a Spanish deaf-mute, and then make story decisions with the guy via conference call.' But no... compared to writing treatments, that makes sense, too.

  Terry Rossio

  Writing, Italian, Design

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• The cost of hiring someone bad is so much greater than missing out on someone good.

  Joe Kraus

  Missing, Cost, Greater

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• Hiring people with diverse backgrounds brings in a flexibility of thought and openness to new ways of doing things, as opposed to hiring clones from business schools who have been taught a codified way of doing business.

  Yvon Chouinard

  School, People, Way

  Yvon Chouinard (2016). “Let My People Go Surfing: The Education of a Reluctant Businessman--Including 10 More Years of Business Unusual”, p.199, Penguin

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• Rick Perry has now accused Mitt Romney of hiring illegal aliens to work on his hair.

  David Letterman

  Hair, Aliens, Illegal

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• The best cover letters I've read are from people who have a passion for my company, and can make that passion come to life on a page. The letters that make me say, 'Yes! This person really gets it.' Because, at the end of the day, I want to hire people who already get it. Most hiring managers do.

  Kathryn Minshew

  Passion, People, The End Of The Day

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• So much of what passes for public life consists of little more than candidates without ideas, hiring consultants without conviction, to stage campaigns without content. The result, increasingly, is elections without voters.

  Gerald R. Ford

  Ideas, Campaigns, Littles

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• You are Brilliant and the Earth is Hiring.

  Paul Hawken

  Earth, Brilliant

  Paul Hawken's Commencement Address at University of Portland in Portland, Oregon, www.huffingtonpost.com. May 2, 2014.

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• Someone could be amazing at what they do, but if you don't like them, why bother hiring them?

  Chip Conley

  Bother, Ifs, Why Bother

  Interview with Bob Morris, bobmorris.biz. June 28, 2011.

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