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Quotes About Recruitment

In looking for someone to hire, you look for three qualities: integrity, intelligence, and energy. But the most important is integrity, because if they don't have that, the other two qualities, intelligence and energy, are going to kill you.
~ Warren Buffett
Somebody once said that in looking for people to hire, you look for three qualities: integrity, intelligence, and energy. And if you don't have the first, the other two will kill you. You think about it; it's true. If you hire somebody without [integrity], you really want them to be dumb and lazy.
~ Warren Buffett
For every terrorist we kill, there's another boy waiting to step forward and pick up the stone or the gun. They're like shark's teeth: break one and another will rise in it's place.
~ Daniel Silva
We are coming, Father Abraham, three hundred thousand more.
~ James Sloan Gibbons
This, she reflected, in a continuation of her earlier train of thought, was presumably how religions got started, and must be the reason why so many sects hang around airports looking for converts. They know that people there are at their most vulnerable and perplexed, and ready to accept any kind of guidance.
~ Douglas Adams
Companies want to be able to hire employees with an elite university diploma to make their personnel lists look impressive.
~ Heather Mac Donald
Companies lose some of their best employees when people are beaten down; then they overpromote junior people because they can't persuade outsiders to sign on.
~ Mindy Grossman
Look at where Jesus went to pick people. He didn't go to the colleges; he got guys off the fishing docks.
~ Jeff Foxworthy
Managers of hospitals over the years have been increasingly recruited from outside the health service, and although their experience of running a supermarket chain might allow them to balance the books, it does not mean they have any insight into how a ward should be managed and patients best served.
~ Jo Brand
We recruit our people for personality. We look for the people person, with innate warmth, sweetness, and intelligence. These are the people who are sending your message out to the customers and potential customers, so we recruit for personality first and foremost.
~ Steve Wynn
Recruit new soldiers for the Empire's armies from rural Punjab but underscore every recruit's distinct religion and caste
~ Rajmohan Gandhi
Out of a total of 683,149 combatant troops recruited in India between August 1914 and November 1918, 349,688—about sixty percent—came from the Punjab.
~ Rajmohan Gandhi
You're only as good as the people you hire.
~ Ray Kroc
Military recruiters took who they could get. In those days, with roughly 50 percent of the population under sixteen and most of the men over twenty already supporting families, teenagers constituted a disproportionate share of the available males.
~ Ray Raphael
On January 16, 1776, Congress reluctantly resolved "that the free negroes who have served faithfully in the army at Cambridge, may be re-inlisted therein, but no others."154 During the course of 1776 all northern states issued some sort of restrictions on the recruitment of African American soldiers.
~ Ray Raphael
I fire very little because I try to be very careful when I select people. If you know how to select, you don't fire often.
~ Harry Triguboff
I would love to take a role like Greg Chappell did for Australia. I think I have a good eye for talent and this is something that we have never taken on board in the Caribbean.
~ Viv Richards
A CEO needs to build their own team.
~ Ross Levinsohn
We're turning into a geriatric society. The old are fighting back. They have the great advantage of an irresistible recruitment programme. It's called living.
~ Reginald Hill
Recruitment and retention are critical to sustain our Armed Forces with the best men and women willing to stand in the gap and make huge sacrifices to ensure our freedom.
~ Zach Wamp
The only way I'd ever recruit a white quarterback to play for me is if his mom and daddy would both have to be black, and that's the only way I would do it.
~ Barry Switzer
Tom Osborne, Lou Holtz, Bobby Bowden were in our living room. My mom didn't know who they were!
~ Hines Ward
The most important thing you do as a leader is to hire the right people.
~ David Cottrell
If I walk in a home and a kid disrespects a woman, his mother or grandmother, then I am out... I wont recruit them
~ John Calipari