Good Hire Quotes

#1. 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.

Jim Rohn

#2. And he still has clothes on, which means it couldn't have burned his skin in too many places. He'll be fine." "Yeah, good that," Newt replied with a sarcastic chuckle. "Remind me not to hire you as my buggin' doctor anytime soon.

James Dashner

#3. What career? A man's got a body of film of about four movies in about 10 years or something. I do it because I think I can do a good job of something and I'll enjoy it, do it, and sort of vanish. I don't want to be an actor for hire.

Paul Hogan

#4. 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

#5. I'd heard he was good, and what the hell sense does it make not to hire somebody because of their color?

Walter Annenberg

#6. The one surefire way to get me not to hire you is to send me your resume, especially if you've already got a good job. I won't be interested, because in a couple years, you'll be doing the same thing to me that you're doing to your current boss: looking for a better deal.

Bo Schembechler

#7. I've always worked out. I've always gone to the gym. But it was always a chore, and it was always, like, 'Man, I've gotta go do this because if I don't I'll get all dumpy and out of shape and then no one will hire me for good roles.'

Michael Cudlitz

#8. I never starved. And you know, whatever talent I have, I've relied on that, versus image or star. I have just said, 'Hire me if you want somebody good.' I tried to be as good as I could be every time out, and that's kind of bridged the decades.

Jeff Daniels

#9. Well you'd see a very dramatic change in the perspective of small businesses, entrepreneurs, middle-size businesses, and perhaps even some large multinationals. They'd say, you know what, America looks like a good place to invest again, a good place to take risk, a good place to hire again.

Mitt Romney

#10. The law is a system that protects everybody who can afford to hire a good lawyer.

Mark Twain

#11. I will only hire someone to work directly for me if I would work for that person. It's a pretty good test.

Mark Zuckerberg

#12. We call it the 'Rule of Crappy People'. Bad managers hire very, very bad employees, because they're threatened by anybody who is anywhere near as good as they are.

Marc Andreessen

#13. One of the things I learnt over the years is that there is a craft to writing, like there is a craft to acting. I hadn't done my apprenticeship as a writer. I did try to be a writer for hire but I'm not any good at it.

Lennie James

#14. No matter how good or successful you are
or how clever or crafty, your business and its
future are in the hands of the people you hire. To
put it a bit more dramatically, the fate of your
business is actually in the hands of the youngest
recruit on the staff.

Akio Morita

#15. If a child is poor in math but good at tennis, most people would hire a math tutor. I would rather hire a tennis coach.

Deepak Chopra

#16. It doesn't make sense to hire good people and tell them what to do; we hire good people so they can tell us what to do.

Steve Jobs

#17. Our attitude is that if you hire good people and pay them a fair wage, then good things will happen for the company.

James Sinegal

#18. I think I'm an actor. You can hire me. I can do a good job. But you also have to get lucky now and then. Every film-maker knows how hard it is to do a good film. You have to just make many, and see how lucky you get.

Rutger Hauer

#19. If you wanna hire great people and have them stay working for you, you have to be run by ideas, not hierarchy. The best ideas have to win, otherwise good people don't stay.

Steve Jobs

#20. I try to physically and mentally immerse myself in whatever it is I am doing. That is good for me as an artist. I am always looking for that part that I have never done before, which makes it all the more difficult, because people want to hire you for what they've already seen you do.

William Earl Brown

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

Samuel Goldwyn

#22. I don't hire good coaches, I hire good people. If they turn out to be good coaches, too, that's a plus.

Geno Auriemma

#23. It's more than just selling pizzas. It's being a good fit for the community. We hire based on the betterment of the community as much as anything.

Mark Starr

#24. When I write stuff and I help cast it, I turn away good people all the time. I may turn them down because this one's too tall and that one doesn't have a high enough voice or this one looks to old to match up with that one - there's a billion reasons not to hire somebody.

Harvey Fierstein

#25. I have seen entrepreneurs ask for hundreds of millions of dollars on a concept and try to sell because of 'their passion' for an idea. If the idea is that good, why wouldn't I cut you out and hire someone who is just as passionate for much, much less?

Kevin Harrington

#26. Do your best at every job. Don't sleep! Success generates more success so be hungry for it. Hire good people with a passion for excellence.

Steve Jobs

#27. As entrepreneurs, we often get pressured into hiring an industry executive. While it's good to hire people with experience, it can also be a stumbling block because they think about the business the same way everyone else does.

Blake Mycoskie

#28. The message from the Technion when I was a student was: 'You will be so good that when you graduate, everyone will want to hire you.'

Dan Shechtman

#29. When you hire good people, and you provide good jobs and good wages and a career, good things are going to happen.

James Sinegal

#30. Good people hire people better than themselves. So A players hire A+ players. But others hire below their skills to make themselves look good. So B players hire C players. C players hire D players, etc.

Guy Kawasaki

#31. I deal with a lot of wonderful gay people. I hire a lot of them. I use a lot of them. I respect them. They're terrific. I am good friends with them. But you live your life the way you want to live, and I'll live mine, and I won't stick my nose in yours.

Richard DeVos

#32. Then I figured it would be a good plan to hire a few sailors to work for me, get them out to my yacht, get them drunk, commit sodomy on them, rob them and then kill them. This I done.

Carl Panzram

#33. I don't want to be in boardrooms talking about hiring hairdressers and minivans. I'm not good at it, and I don't like to hire and fire people. I hate that. It's horrible.

Kim Cattrall

#34. My father's corporation, the Nero Organization, supplied assassins for hire. Killing was our business, and business had been good for years.

Lisa Kessler

#35. We see that reason is wholly instrumental. It cannot tell us where to go; at best it can tell us how to get there. It is a
gun for hire that can be employed in the service of whatever goals we have, good or bad.

Herbert Simon

#36. I met a lot of hackers, and some of them were very arrogant. They thought I was stupid because I couldn't follow what they were talking about. But then I met this great guy whom companies hire to find their security holes, and he was very good about explaining so I could understand.

David Lagercrantz

#37. You'll have to hire people to expand your business. But it's a good discipline to really question if you need each and every hire.

James Altucher

#38. If you hire good people, give them good jobs, and pay them good wages, generally something good is going to happen.

James Sinegal

#39. In the long run, no matter how good or successful you are or how clever or crafty, your business and its future are in the hands of the people you hire.

Akio Morita

#40. The reason why many clients don't value design is because haven't had a designer prove to them the value of it. You need to prove it to clients who've hired a bunch of shitty designers and their business has not been that successful. When they hire a good designer, they see the difference.

Jessica Hische

#41. I think I probably think about myself as an actor, which is the way most people do. I think I'm good, I don't think I'm great. I think I would hire somebody else to play me in the movie about me.

Ashton Kutcher

#42. They reminded me of the biggest liar I ever knew personally. Was a farmer, too. Reputation of pretty good farmer at that, but he lied so he had to hire another man to call his pigs.

Esther Forbes

#43. If you're able to arrange a trial period with a new hire, do it. It will give both of you a chance to make sure the position is a good fit - and can help you avoid being in the awkward situation of wanting to fire someone three or four weeks in.

Kathryn Minshew

#44. Two young adventurers for hire. Willing to do anything, go anywhere. Pay must be good. No reasonable offer refused.

Agatha Christie

#45. We're all in the service business. If you hire me to do a job I expect everybody else to be where I am. A little bit of crazy is good. It keeps things - balanced.

Nia Long

#46. I still think we ought to just hire the town and take it with us. Then we'd have a good barkeep and someone to play the pianer.

Larry McMurtry

#47. Reduce risk, lower your required capital, and focus on what you're really good at - and hire others for what you are not.) This is something you should think about in any business: don't try to do everything. You aren't the best at everything. Find out where you have an advantage and stick to that.

Marc Ecko

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

Ray Kroc

#49. Most people in America understand that the rich people hire good accountants and figure out how not to necessarily pay all the taxes that they should be paying.

George W. Bush

#50. I'm kind of the boss. I could fire myself if I ever got out of line, and I can hire myself too which is a good thing. It gives me a responsibility to the financial realities.

Tony Krantz

#51. Often it's a lack of time, not taste, that leads someone to hire a decorator. A good decorator/client relationship should be like a marriage. The time one puts in needs to be extensive. One needs to listen to them and understand what they like and how they live.

Nicholas Haslam

#52. I tell people, if you really want me to look that good, why don't you cough up about $2 million more and hire Alec or Billy? If you want me to do it, this is what you get.

Daniel Baldwin

#53. I purposely try to hire people who are really self-motivated and good at what they do, and then I just leave them alone.

Yvon Chouinard

#54. I hire people that are good, and aren't crazy. Or assholes. Because that takes up too much time. There are just as many good people who are not crazy.

Tina Fey

#55. I knew you had to go in and audition and maybe they'd hire you, and that's where you start. I had a good understanding about press: that it's the actor's responsibility to publicize his or her films.

Laura Dern

#56. I've always been really internally focused. I tend to focus on hiring - ensuring that every person we hire is both a really good fit and really good - and also that everything we put out to our users is very high-quality.

Arash Ferdowsi

#57. Somebody who knows what they're doing, who has a good track record, they come across as very articulate, bright and looking for a challenge - that's absolutely my kind of hire.

Gordon Bethune

#58. We did an episode where she goes out to get a job and she gets fired because she's not good. They hire a babysitter to help out and she finds out she hates the fact that the kids have more fun with the sitter than her.

Patricia Heaton

#59. I'm not really a director for hire. You read these scripts and go, 'This is a really great script, but Paul Greengrass would make this so much better than me.' I usually say, 'I know who would be good for this. It's not me.'

Stephen Daldry