Quotes About Hiring

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

I try to hire people who will challenge and have the humility to be challenged - people who have basically good values.

We hired a CSR person at Twitter, years before we hired our first sales person, to make sure we had a culture and impact of doing good.

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.

I'd hire the devil himself as a writer if he gave me a good story.

It's not government that makes business successful. It's not government investments that makes businesses grow and hire people.

When you have chemistry with a potential hire, they will most likely become a great employee.

The great thing is that when you hire string players you always get really great players. I don't know why that is.

No employer is going to hire robustly until they know what the health care cost is going to be.

HBO is really famous for hiring good people and staying out of their way until they ask for help, or need it. And that reputation is earned.

I hope that many visual journalists will be hired or funded along the way as well - we urgently need their perspectives.

I think I have a good sense of humor, but I'm not, like, a joke-teller. I get the jokes, which is sometimes half the battle. Believe me, I have no idea why anyone hires me.

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.

Good people are found not changed. Recently I read a headline that said, 'We don't teach people to be nice. We simply hire nice people.' Wow! What a clever short cut.

The hiring rules are strictly followed, no matter who the applicant. Not long after she graduated from Harvard, Molly Munger applied at Munger, Tolles for an associate's position. She interviewed with Carla Hills, but Hills did not offer her a job, allegedly because Molly had not made the Harvard Law Review. Apparently in Hills estimation, that meant Molly's credentials weren't quite up to Munger, Tolles's standards.4

I was trying to find a paradigm for "rock and roll values." I asked Jerry Garcia for advice on how big an organization should get. He said I should stop hiring people once I started not remembering everyone's name.

Any hiring system that hands out jobs on the basis of race rather than qualifications weakens the economy. America's international competitiveness is being seriously challenged. That in such times our Congress can still vote to carry on with such a debilitating, unjust system shows the extent to which our representatives—and our nation—have been mesmerized by race.

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

One of the secret benefits of hiring remote workers is that the work itself becomes the yardstick to judge someone's performance.

There's simply no getting around it: in hiring for remote-working positions, managers should be ruthless in filtering out poor writers.

Resumés are ridiculous

Contrata buenos escritores Si tienes que decidirte entre varios candidatos para un puesto, contrata al que escriba mejor.

If someone sends out a resumé to three hundred companies, that's a huge red flag right there. There's no way that applicant has researched you. There's no way he knows what's different about your company. If you hire based on this garbage, you're missing the point of what hiring is about. You want a specific candidate who cares specifically about your company, your products, your customers, and your job.

Grow slow and see what feels right—premature hiring is the death of many companies. And avoid huge growth spurts too—they can cause you to skip right over your appropriate size.