Hiring Quotes - Page 2

• Hire people who are better than you are, then leave them to get on with it. Look for people who will aim for the remarkable, who will not settle for the routine.

  David Ogilvy

  Business, Top Management, Service Culture

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• At the end of the day you bet on people, not on strategies.

  Lawrence Bossidy

  People, The End Of The Day, Strategy

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• Bear in mind that brains and learning, like muscle and physical skill, are articles of commerce. They are bought and sold. You can hire them by the year or by the hour. The only thing in the world not for sale is character.

  Antonin Scalia

  Teaching, Learning, Character

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• Build your own dreams, or someone else will hire you to build theirs.

  Farrah Gray

  Inspirational, Motivational, Positive

  FaceBook post by Dr. Farrah Gray from May 27, 2014

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• I'll hire blacks as long as they can do the cotton-pickin' job.

  Evan Mecham

  Jobs, Long, Black

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• Hire and promote first on the basis of integrity; second, motivation; third, capacity; fourth, understanding; fifth, knowledge; and last and least, experience. Without integrity, motivation is dangerous; without motivation, capacity is impotent; without capacity, understanding is limited; without understanding, knowledge is meaningless; without knowledge, experience is blind. Experience is easy to provide and quickly put to good use by people with all the other qualities.

  Dee Hock

  Motivational, Integrity, Knowledge

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• Somebody accused us of hiring him and putting him there. He was a classic.

  George W. Bush

  Military, Classic, Accused

  "George Bush: 'I was comfortable to take the shot at Saddam". Interview with Tom Brokaw, www.independent.co.uk. April 25, 2003.

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• Stay as focused as possible and keep simplifying down your ideas till you have something small you can launch quickly and iterate on. Be ruthless in hiring only the best people. Keep fit and try to exercise even in the longest times.

  Ian Hogarth

  Exercise, Ideas, People

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• The cost of energy is directly related to the cost of hiring workers and running a business.

  Martha Roby

  Running, Energy, Cost

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• You're either not hiring at all or it's probably your single biggest block of time.

  Sam Altman

  Block, Team

  "Lecture 2: Ideas, Products, Teams and Execution Part II". "How to Start a Startup" lecture, Stanford, genius.com. September 25, 2014.

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• In most cases being a good boss means hiring talented people and then getting out of their way.

  Tina Fey

  Witty, Mean, Top Management

  "Bossypants". Book by Tina Fey, April 5, 2011.

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• I don't know how one would define an affirmative-action hire. I ultimately do not know what role race played in my hiring.

  Jayson Blair

  Race, Roles, Action

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• Make sure a certain percentage of the people that you're hiring are generalists so that you can be, kind of reconfigured in the workforce pretty easily.

  Reid Hoffman

  People, Be Kind, Percentages

  Source: bigthink.com

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• When I hire somebody really senior, competence is the ante. They have to be really smart. But the real issue for me is, Are they going to fall in love with Apple? Because if they fall in love with Apple, everything else will take care of itself. They'll want to do what's best for Apple, not what's best for them, what's best for Steve, or anybody else.

  Steve Jobs

  Life, Senior, Falling In Love

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• If you pay peanuts, you wind up hiring monkeys.

  Unknown

  Wind, Monkeys, Pay

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• What characteristics do I look for when hiring somebody? That's one of the questions I ask when interviewing. I want to know what kind of people they would hire.

  Jeff Bezos

  Teamwork, People, Looks

  "Jeff Bezos: What I've Learned" by Cal Fussman, www.esquire.com. January 2002.

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• To the extent that hiring in high-wage, developed economies continues to lag, the sustainability of any impetus to private consumption can be drawn into serious question.

  Stephen S. Roach

  Lag, Serious, Wages

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• It was easy for me to show the films to the studio and the network and say, "This is who I'm hiring."

  Ava DuVernay

  Film, Easy, Shows

  Source: www.glamour.com

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• The Total Onboarding Program - An Integrated Approach To Recruiting, Hiring and Accelerating Talent.

  George Bradt

  Talent, Program, Integrated

  "The Total Onboarding Program: An Integrated Approach to Recruiting, Hiring, and Accelerating Talent Facilitators Guide Set". Book by George Bradt, Ed Bancroft, October 11, 2010.

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• When I'm hiring someone I look for magic and a spark. Little things that intuitively give me a gut feeling that this person will go to the ends of the earth to accomplish the task at hand.

  Tommy Mottola

  Hands, Giving, Feelings

  "Tommy Mottola: What I've Learned" by Cal Fussman, www.esquire.com. January 29, 3013.

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• The companies aren't hiring, because consumers don't have enough money to buy the goods and services.

  Michael Hudson

  Enough, Consumers, Goods And Services

  Source: www.counterpunch.org

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• If you're hiring, if you're the person doing the hiring, forgive a scar or two. Remember that when we were young, we were also idiots. There were just no cameras there to catch it.

  Greg Gutfeld

  Two, Forgiving, Cameras

  "Greg Gutfeld's advice for grads". www.foxnews.com. May 19, 2015.

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• Of everyone else who was running, and there were some very talented people, none of them had anywhere near the experience I had in hiring people, holding them accountable, creating systems for accountability.

  John Hickenlooper

  Running, Creating, People

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• Traditionally women have been more reticent to acknowledge their ambition and to say it with pride. So I like having people who work for us who are ambitious, engaged, respectful. Mis-hiring is a huge mistake. It's a tremendous opportunity cost throwing the position to the wrong person.

  Ivanka Trump

  Mistake, Ambition, Pride

  "Ivanka Trump describes her life as the daughter of a potential US president, running the Trump empire, and building her own brand". Interview With Rachel Gillett, uk.businessinsider.com. March 17, 2016.

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• The Obama administration is not helping small businesses create jobs. In fact, it is responsible for the regulatory uncertainty nearly 50 percent of small-business owners cite as responsible for their lack of hiring.

  Sher Valenzuela

  Jobs, Administration, Facts

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