Top 52 Hires Quotes
#1. Pay attention to your culture and your hires from the very beginning.
Reid Hoffman
#2. An intelligent person hires people who are more intelligent than he is.
Robert Kiyosaki
#3. Man is not the owner of mind but only a user. The nature owns mind, man hires only a small portion of it that too for a brief period.
Thiruman Archunan
#4. When you are ready to make your first hires, look for people who understand your passion, want to add to your ideas and can envision ways to make improvements.
Richard Branson
#5. All too often, new hires have a different expectation of their job and responsibilities than the organization does. Any miscommunication during the recruiting process needs to be cleared up ASAP. Whenever possible, give new employees a written plan of objectives and responsibilities.
Jay Samit
#7. The culture at Valve is pretty much crowdsourced. The handbook is a wiki. One of the first things we say to new hires is, 'You have to change something in the handbook.'
Gabe Newell
#8. 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 ...
Mila Kunis
#9. For most of the early hires you make in a startup, experience doesn't matter very much, and you should go for aptitude.
Sam Altman
#10. Apple CEO Steve Jobs used to talk about a phenomenon called a "bozo explosion," by which a company's mediocre early hires rise up through the ranks and end up running departments. The bozos now must hire other people, and of course they prefer to hire bozos.
Dan Lyons
#11. By maintaining an active feedback system at every stage of a startup, founders can reduce their burn rate, increase their virality coefficient, and retain key hires.
Jay Samit
#12. I guess if you include contractors that are six or seven people working on reddit, but when we got acquired there were basically three and then in the years since, we've added three more developer hires full time, and a community manger. But the site is still remarkably small.
Alexis Ohanian
#13. CVS is an extreme case among retailers. Its new hires are almost always either recent grads or people who have bounced around the pharmacy world so often that they have nowhere left to go.
Dennis Miller
#14. I'm a chronic ad-libber. So whoever hires me, often to their chagrin, should know that I will be talking a bunch of smack.
Jay Baruchel
#15. A good leader is someone who knows what he's bad at, and hires someone who's good at it to take care of it for him.
John Flanagan
#16. Howard Hughes was able to afford the luxury of madness, like a man who not only thinks he is Napoleon but hires an army to prove it.
Ted Morgan
#17. I'm kind of shocked any time somebody hires me and even more shocked any time somebody hires me to play a character like Lex Luthor, which I only knew from the public consciousness of him being a bald, brooding villain who is older than me.
Jesse Eisenberg
#18. I've always found it strange that a director can hire any designer he wants from any country. But if he hires a foreign actor, it's like he's stolen the crown jewels and run across the river with them.
Kevin Spacey
#19. Any chief executive who hires a consultant to give them strategy should be fired.
Duff McDonald
#20. Google hires really bright, insecure people and then applies sufficient pressure that no matter how hard they work, they're never able to consider themselves successful. Look at all the kids in my group who work absurd hours and still feel they're not keeping up with everyone else.
Douglas Edwards
#21. If you could trade the bottom 10 percent of your team for new hires, would your organization improve? If so, then you need to look at the hiring process that yielded those low performers and see how you can improve it.
Eric Schmidt
#22. I always say that AMC hires filmmakers, and they let them be filmmakers.
Michelle MacLaren
#23. Stewardesses are still paid so little that in many cases, new hires qualify for food stamps.
Patricia Ireland
#24. 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.
David Ogilvy
#25. Bigger brands like Shinola are capitalizing on what all of us small companies did. Shinola is just totally fake. It's a corporate entity that's taking advantage of what everybody else has done. They say it's all about made in U.S., but one Wal-Mart hires more employees than their whole company.
Mark McNairy
#26. Most of the best hires that I've made in my entire life have never done that thing before.
Sam Altman
#27. One hires lawyers as on hires plumbers, because one wants to keep one's hands off the beastly drains.
Carolyn Heilbrun
#28. My father values talent. He recognizes real knowledge and skill when he finds it. He is color blind and gender neutral. He hires the best person for the job, period.
Ivanka Trump
#29. My job is to hire the best and brightest employees and empower them to do their best work. As a manager, I am not a mind reader nor an expert at every job function. Therefore, it is incumbent on all hires to feel empowered to tell me what resources they need to do their job.
Jay Samit
#30. As CEO, I had a standing 30-minute meeting every Monday to greet and connect with new hires.
Scott Weiss
#31. She can go places we cannot, associate with people we cannot, understand things about society types and women that we never can. (Why Mr. Burke hires Violet Strange.)
Candida Martinelli
#32. Who I am as an architect and the history of my work - that's clear to anybody who hires me. But I come in literally with nothing in my brain about what the building will look like.
Thom Mayne
#33. Remember, the U.S. is a powerful state, it's not like Libya. If Libya wants to carry out terrorist acts, they hire Carlos the Jackal or something. The United States hires terrorist states.
Noam Chomsky
#34. So, how we doin'?"
"Same as usual: dead people, a mystery, more dead people."
"Who we lost?"
"The boy. His guardians. Maybe Elliot Norton."
"Shit, don't sound like we got anybody left. Anyone hires you better leave you your fee in their will.
John Connolly
#35. I would never butt heads with Rob Zombie. I don't know anybody that's in acting that ever butted heads with Rob Zombie. I adore Rob. I adore him. I adore working with him. I adore knowing him. I'm happy to consider myself a friend and someone who he hires. I just think he's great.
Dee Wallace
#36. Jon Stewart hires people that he thinks are funny. That's it. That's the only requirement.
Olivia Munn
#37. I think most people either forget or don't know that Microsoft only hires people with I.Q.'s well over 130.
Douglas Coupland
#38. Controlling for a large number of additional variables, they found that firms with at least one woman among the first hires were more successful and stayed longer in the market than all-male start-ups.
Iris Bohnet
#39. When I became proficient as a salesman I was invited to teach new hires.
Zig Ziglar
#40. Does he train you all to be creepy sociopaths or is that a prerequisite before he hires you
Jocelyn Adams
#41. It's very important as a startup to get early press because, although it may not be a large number of people, having a 'Fast Company' story - some of those people that read it are going to be your next employees and hires, your next investors.
Jason Calacanis
#42. If you compromise in the first five, ten hires it might kill the company.
Sam Altman
#43. We've heard the excuses from those responsible for hiring that they don't want to take a chance on a new director. But the truth is that the industry hires new directors all the time; it's just that most of them are white males.
Lesli Linka Glatter
#44. Wal-Mart hires average people but squeezes above average performance and results out of them.
Michael Bergdahl
#45. I think Jon Foo and my chemistry is incredible! Foo is a genuine introvert and I'm a genuine extrovert. We're the perfect ying and yang, on and off camera.
Justin Hires
#46. I'm really quiet at home. I don't speak that much. However, when I'm in public, I make sure to speak to everyone.
Justin Hires
#47. Some of my funniest thoughts come to me while I'm taking a shower.
Justin Hires
#48. I turned down a contract with a major network in New York my senior year of college in order to move to Los Angeles and pursue my acting career. But so far it's working out.
Justin Hires
#49. Do your homework, study the craft, believe in yourself, and out-work everyone.
Justin Hires
#50. One of the reasons I started acting was to re-make The Karate Kid, but Jaden Smith beat me to it.
Justin Hires
#51. I've always been a huge fan of martial arts and comedy, so Rush Hour was the perfect combination for me.
Justin Hires
#52. Fear will keep you from accomplishing your dreams.
Justin Hires
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