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Quotes About Recruitment

Lock a man in prison, and you might stop him from committing crimes. Teach a man to respect himself and his community, and you stopped everyone he might have taught, recruited, or bullied.
~ Brandon Sanderson
Ever since I was a young kid, I've been playing for an academy with scouts all over the world that are looking for top players to come in.
~ Danny Welbeck
I can remember loving to recruit. I knew I was going to do my best. But traveling and recruiting doesn't appeal to me any more. It's not as much fun as it used to be.
~ Bear Bryant
Once an effective drug is approved to treat a deadly condition, introducing a second drug to treat the same disease can be hard. It's tough to recruit patients with a debilitating disease for a clinical trial when a proven medicine is already available.
~ Scott Gottlieb
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.
~ Quint Studer
Schroen's men had carried in $ 10 million in boxed cash. They handed out bundles like candy on Halloween. Schroen had recruited onto his team Chris Wood, the Dari-speaking case officer who had worked the Taliban account out of Islamabad. Wood ran the day-to-day intelligence reporting at the joint cell, collecting and synthesizing field radio reports about Taliban and Al Qaeda positions and movements.
~ Steve Coll
Despite several years of field operations and the recruitment of more than one hundred reporting agents inside Afghanistan, ALEC Station had not penetrated Bin Laden's planning. Al Qaeda's counterintelligence against potential moles was formidable.
~ Steve Coll
Williams and his researcher marveled morbidly about how incompetent some of these suicide bombers seemed to be. One had strapped on his vest, traveled to say goodbye to his parents, and accidentally detonated his device during the visit, taking his own life and theirs. But when Williams reflected on it, the pattern seemed tragic. Presumably such failures indicated how many suicide bombers recruited to die in Afghanistan might be coerced, naïve, illiterate, young, or disabled.4
~ Steve Coll
I always make sure I hire people smarter than me.
~ Aliko Dangote
We hire people who are smarter than us.
~ Joe Gebbia
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.
~ Michael Seibel
My philosophy is to always find the smartest people you can. Hire people smarter than you.
~ Donny Deutsch
When I was 16 or 17, anyone could have had me if they sang the right song and recruited me in the right way. Which is why I've always had a sneaking understanding for people who took the wrong route. That doesn't mean to say I took it or even contemplated it myself.
~ John le Carre
One of the main recruitment centers and organizing hubs for ISIS is prisons. Whether by accident or design, jailhouses in the Middle East have served for years as virtual terror academies, where known extremists can congregate, plot, organize, and hone their leadership skills "inside the wire," and most ominously recruit a new generation of fighters. ISIS is a terrorist organization
~ Michael Weiss
To one thing I have made up my mind. If we find out that Mina must be a vampire in the end, then she shall not go into that unknown and terrible land alone. I suppose it is thus that in old times one vampire meant many. Just as their hideous bodies could only rest in sacred earth, so the holiest love was the recruiting sergeant for their ghastly ranks.
~ Bram Stoker
As a judge, I hire four law clerks each year. I look for the best.
~ Brett Kavanaugh
We don't get every kid. We get the ones we are supposed to get. It just kind of plays out that way, and it always has.
~ John Calipari
How do you pick players? When they are good, and Dhoni is the best limited-overs keeper in the country.
~ Ravi Shastri
You have to show high school players that fans care about your program, that they're gonna be at the games. I think that's a huge key to success in college basketball.
~ Jim Boeheim
Anybody that we can get here or would be interested, I'd be willing to talk to, to try to make them come to the Knicks. I think we are one of the best franchises ever. Everybody wants to play here.
~ Jose Calderon
Never hire someone who knows less than you do about what he's hired to do.
~ Malcolm Forbes
Here was the traditional device by which those in charge of any social order mobilize and discipline a recalcitrant population—offering the adventure and rewards of military service to get poor people to fight for a cause they may not see clearly as their own.
~ Howard Zinn
It's a lot more important to get quality young men and good student-athletes that can be successful at the University of Georgia. That's my No. 1 goal.
~ Kirby Smart
Some of the people involved in ISIS are going to Iraq, and some of our young people are being radicalised through the Internet.
~ Tony Tan