Quotes About Hiring

If you have an employee with a great attitude but no training or skills versus one with a poor attitude with some education or training. Take the employee with the great attitude for they can be trained. Poor attitude is like a tumor. It can spread. Attitude is harder to change than someone's skills level. - Strong by Kailin Gow on Hiring Good People and Casting Good People

Hiring's tough. It's not just filtering through hundreds of applications and blocking out big chunks of your day for interviews - those are the simple parts. The difficult thing is the nagging feeling that, despite your best efforts, the perfect candidate will somehow fall through the cracks.

Build into each budget the cost of hiring and don't lump yourself with capital investment.

Entrepreneurs can benefit a lot from the right help and advice, and you can avoid costly mistakes. You can get incredible leverage in hiring people who wouldn't even talk to you if you have the right help. An investor isn't about money - it's about the help and advice you can get.

Aligning strategy and sales is the most difficult part of implementation because it involves a combination of factors: a coherent strategy, the right incentives, hiring, developing a performance culture, and sustaining field behaviors in the face of market changes largely outside the control of the seller.

Every time we hire someone, he or she should raise the bar for the next hire, so that the overall talent pool is always improving,

Shouldn't we be as rigorous in hiring as we are in capital spending?

As a businessman, I learned something that Donald Trump never figured out: It isn't about how many times you yell, 'You're fired,' but instead, how many times you say, 'You're hired.'

Officers are not fruit. I can't pick them off a tree.

Mis-hiring is a huge mistake. It's a tremendous opportunity cost throwing the position to the wrong person. It's often something that isn't rectified for a long period of time.

The idea of 'interview-less hiring' is new and a trend we will see in the changing global job market.

A film set becomes its own family anyway, and all family dynamics come out during a shoot. The trick is hiring people who know how to handle that.

Once we get our corporate culture the way we want it, we have to hire people who fit. Otherwise, the wheels fall off the wagon and we quickly find ourselves back where we started.

Universities hire professors the way some men choose wives - they want the ones the others will admire.

The federal government has gone too far on many nonessential regulations that are harming small businesses. Employers are rightly concerned about the costs of these regulations - so they stop hiring, stop spending, and start saving for a bill from the federal government.

I always make sure I hire people smarter than me.

Don't ever be afraid to hire people that are smarter than you. Just because they are smarter than you doesn't mean they have to make more money.

We hire people who are smarter than us.

Increase your company's average talent with each hire - founders tend to be pretty smart but willing to take on risk. Employees should be a lot smarter and less risk averse.

whenever we hired someone, they would receive a couple of LSD sessions as part of their training

Good hiring practices are the backbone of strong company performance.

As a judge, I hire four law clerks each year. I look for the best.

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

Making labor less expensive helps firms hire people.