Quotes About Staffing

First-rate people hire first-rate people; second-rate people hire third-rate people.

Jimmy Carter began his planning in the early summer of 1976, Ronald Reagan a year prior. The Clinton Administration, elected in 1992, lingered in naming its team, and as a result, took almost a year to staff its ranks.

America is facing a looming shortage of doctors, nurses, and physicians' assistants.

You're only as good as the people you hire.

I fire very little because I try to be very careful when I select people. If you know how to select, you don't fire often.

F-rated Natchez High, with 700 students, had four principals and four assistant principals, all making between $50,000 and $82,000 a year plus benefits. By contrast, the A-rated public high school in Tupelo, Mississippi, with 2,100 students, had just one principal, working with one assistant principal.

They usually have two tellers in my local bank, except when it's very busy, when they have one.

The most important thing you do as a leader is to hire the right people.

If you own a butcher shop, don't hire vegetarians. To hire the right people, you have to let the wrong people go.

Twas a cold Yuletide evening, and I wandered the stacks, shelving multiple titles that the patrons brought back. We toiled overtime at our library here, 'cause the powers that be cut our staffing this year.

For an omnipotent and omniscient being, God has made some really lousy earthly staffing decisions.

You're only as good as the people you hire.

In the early days, I didn't have the money to pay decent salaries, so I didn't get good people. I got nice people, but I didn't get good employees.

Get the right people on the bus, the wrong people off the bus, and the right people in the right seats...

Pass on hiring people you don't need, even if you think that person's a great catch.

The right time to hire is when there's more work than you can handle for a sustained period of time.

Hacer contrataciones a las carreras casi nunca sale bien y contratar a la persona equivocada puede ser muy perjudicial para su equipo. Más vale funcionar con escasez de personal durante un tiempo.

Our driver policy was partly dictated by who was available because of other contracts.

By and large, small companies don't want to settle for part-time employees over full-time positions.

Do not hire those who are incapable.Do not fire those who are capable.A small, devoted army is greaterthan a large, indifferent one.

Time spent on hiring is time well spent.

I haven't seen a single institution in the corporate world operating smoothly without a HR team.

There is no question that having standards and believing in them and staffing an administrative unit objectively using forecasted workloads will help you to maintain and enhance productivity.

There is inevitably a trade-off between staffing and safety, and as a society we must decide where that balance should be struck.