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Quotes About Personnel

We worked on solving the problem of voice communications in a noisy military environment. We established military codes that are highly audible and invented selection tests for personnel who had a superior ability to recognize sound in a noisy background.
~ M. H. Abrams
I was very involved in back of the house, and finding good people is by far the hardest thing. So, when you're living in a place like New York or San Francisco, where the cost of living is so high, finding great people is very hard. Even finding remotely reliable people.
~ J. Kenji Lopez-Alt
The most important thing a mayor does is hire talented people to run the city.
~ John Hickenlooper
Indeed, the Pentagon famously has only slightly fewer people serving in marching bands than the State Department has diplomats.
~ Samantha Power
El jefe de personal se hacía llamar jefe de recursos humanos y, como los jefes de personal de todo el mundo, era una de las personas menos afables que uno podía encontrarse.
~ John Connolly
No police department should hire more quickly than they can assimilate the people that they bring in, and we did. I take responsibility for it. It was the first opportunity I had to hire, and I wanted to do it, and I take responsibility.
~ Daryl Gates
The key to being a good manager or a good entrepreneur is to pick the right people. Pick the right people, and they'll make you look good.
~ Joe Gibbs
Within three hours of a disaster event there should be a recon damage assessment of the infrastructure and an educated guess as to the casualties and degree of imminent human peril. Then make the airdrops of supplies and personnel. Simultaneously, Seabees would be dropped in, with lights and generators, to begin rescue efforts.
~ Steven Van Zandt
Firstly, we have personnel records of persons we hired, persons we fired, reasons we fired them and so forth. These records have nothing to do with the assassination of the president and, therefore, ought to remain in the files.
~ Louis Stokes
It is clear that a temporary increase in the cap is needed to ensure high-tech companies can hire the specialized personnel they need to continue to help fuel California's economic growth.
~ Pete Wilson
Law enforcement personnel all over America are always among those first in line to aid in disasters.
~ Ann Rule
We also very importantly recommend continued growth in the Army and the Marine Corps end strength.
~ John M. McHugh
An irascible man who understood his own character, he would hold off on any personnel decision for twenty-four hours, allowing his judgment to dominate his temper.
~ Eliot A. Cohen
We recruit for attitude and train for skill
~ Atul Gawande
The government took a decision to implement 'One Rank, One Pension' for defence personnel in 2015 and promised to pay arrears in four instalments. I can say that all OROP arrears have been cleared, with over Rs 10,788 crore being spent.
~ Nirmala Sitharaman
I'm not sure that some governors just don't want to lay off people for the sake of laying off people and being able to say they did.
~ Dannel Malloy
If you get the right cast, half your work is done.
~ Vetrimaaran
I look for three things in hiring people. The first is personal integrity, the second is intelligence, and the third is a high energy level. But, if you don't have the first, the other two will kill you.
~ Gary Chapman
Any time you employ thousands of people, some people do dumb things.
~ Erik Prince
It's not an Israeli model, it's a TSA, screwed-up model. It should actually be the person who's looking at the ticket and talking to the individual. Instead, they've hired people to stand around and observe, which is a bastardization of what should be done.
~ John Mica
The cook was a good cook, as cooks go; and as cooks go, she went.
~ Saki
What I should have done, if I was going to be a GM, was gone on the road, gotten into the personnel a lot better. To do that job, you've gotta do it all year. I just did it at draft time.
~ Matt Millen
When the pastor and his or her church have a vision, they will put their energy, time, money, and personnel into achieving it.
~ John C. Maxwell
for floor personnel, who are also, at staff mealtime, referred to as the floor or the family or simply scum.
~ Anthony Bourdain