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Quotes About Hiring

If each of us hires people who are smaller than we are, we shall become a company of dwarfs. But, if each of us hires people who are bigger than we are, we shall become a company of giants.
~ Warren Buffett
Government gets involved in whom a business may hire, how much it pays, and the benefits it provides. The government may make it next to impossible to fire someone without risking a lawsuit.
~ Charles Murray
Facebook is now hiring. No need to apply, we already have all your details.
~ Internet meme
Whether he was flirting with you, hiring you, or marrying you, Don Draper was just not that into you.
~ Heather Havrilesky
First-rate people hire first-rate people; second-rate people hire third-rate people.
~ Leo Rosten
The minute Bigs hired you, I knew you'd make trouble." "I'm a detective," I replied. "Trouble is my business.
~ James Preller
Your cousin Maureen just got a job at the button factory. They're probably still hiring. Helen Plum
~ Janet Evanovich
We got into the Explorer, and I couldn't sit with the gun rammed into my pants. "I can't do this," I said to Ranger. "This dumb gun is too big. It's poking me." Ranger closed his eyes and rested his forehead against the wheel. "I can't believe I hired you.
~ Janet Evanovich
Plum only hires two kinds of people…women with big pointy tits and scumbag bounty hunters. Nothing personal, and it's hard to see with that raincoat on, but you don't look like you got big pointy tits. That leaves scumbag bounty hunter.
~ Janet Evanovich
It's actually a pretty basic concept: when businesses feel secure and confident, they are more likely to grow, hire, and invest. Conversely, when the economy is unstable, businesses often become much more risk averse, and in many cases, they're forced to make undesirable cuts that affect their bottom line.
~ Alan Patricof
I believe we have the best football coach in the country in Urban Meyer. I had the privilege of hiring him, as you know, and I think he is doing fabulous work.
~ Gordon Gee
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
Create the kind of workplace and company culture that will attract great talent. If you hire brilliant people, they will make work feel more like play.
~ Richard Branson
In order to keep pace with the influx of work I had to take on fresh hands.
~ James Nasmyth
A guy gave me a job at an information booth - no questions asked.
~ Jay London
We want to make the best television possible. We should be drawing on the entire available pool of storytellers and directors, and we should be expanding that pool and trying to hire the very, very, very best people. That's our job.
~ John Landgraf
By far the most difficult skill I learned as a C.E.O. was the ability to manage my own psychology. Organizational design, process design, metrics, hiring and firing were all relatively straightforward skills to master compared with keeping my mind in check.
~ Ben Horowitz
If a financial institution has business operations in the United States, hires people in the United States, if they are clogged with illiquid assets, they have the same impact on the American people as any other institution.
~ Henry Paulson
Hire people smarter than you. Fail early, fail often. Listen to everyone's ideas. Face toward the problems. B-level work is bad for your soul. It's more important to invest in good people than in good ideas.
~ Daniel Coyle
The benefits companies receive from hiring workers with high levels of EI include better productivity, higher employee satisfaction, growing market share, and fewer defections.7
~ Daniel Goleman
Los CEO son contratados por su capacidad intelectual y su experiencia comercial y despedidos por su falta de inteligencia emocional».
~ Daniel Goleman
To hire someone willing to undertake an unspecified task, likely involving violence.
~ William Gibson
One rule of thumb is to keep searching for options until you fall in love at least twice. If you've only identified one good candidate for a job, for instance, you'll have the strong urge to talk yourself into hiring her, which is a recipe for the confirmation bias. You'll start to make excuses for the flaws you see: She asked us not to call her old boss for a reference, but that's probably okay, because the boss sounded like a real jerk …
~ Chip Heath
The wrong place to start is to hire familiar people who are in your comfort zone—good buddies, but not the best in their skill set. Such people are difficult to fire and hard to manage.
~ Henry Kressel