Hiring Great People Quotes

#1. If we [Microsoft Corporation] weren't still hiring great people and pushing ahead at full speed, it would be easy to fall behind and become a mediocre company. Fear should guide you, but it should be latent. I have some latent fear. I consider failure on a regular basis.

Bill Gates

#2. Hiring great people is almost the most important thing you can do as a leader because they enable you to scale, and they create better leverage for you and your time.

Ivanka Trump

#3. Some people seem to sort of have a gut for hiring. I literally had a gut that was exactly the opposite. So whenever I thought someone would be great, it was sort of the opposite.

Wendy Kopp

#4. We must no more ask whether the soul and body are one than ask whether the wax and the figure impressed on it are one.

Aristotle.

#5. It was a new kind of class war
the people as citizens versus the politicians and their clients in the public sector.

Irving Kristol

#6. Humanity's special place in the cosmos is one of abandoned claims and moving goalposts.

Frans De Waal

#7. When I got out of acting school, I was lucky to have gotten any job at all. A lot of people hiring African American actresses - it was right after 'Roots,' and for society, not me, it was great. Nice richly dark-skinned people was the fashion, and I was not.

Anna Deavere Smith

#8. If you cut a shrub back because it's just too big, and it dies, you haven't lost anything but a plant that couldn't live by your rules.

Janet Macunovich

#9. I don't want to only ever meet you in the woods, even though I love this. I ... I gotta feel like there's something real beyond these trees. I want to be able to take you on a date. Just ... once.

Linda Kage

#10. Sustainability is living on nature's income rather than living on its capital.

Murray Gell-Mann

#11. Poets are interested primarily in death and commas.

Carolyn Kizer

#12. Few people would doubt that Mark Zuckerberg would build a great product. But I, at least, would never have expected him to become so great at hiring, motivating, managing, and ultimately getting whatever it is his company needs from people.

Sarah Lacy

#13. To let sorrow go his own way
one gives happiness a chance

Mario

#14. I wanted it more than enough. I wanted it with every fiber of my being, and I had the power to make it happen - to make it so I was the one Drew wanted, not Lizzie

Michelle Madow

#15. To come under siege was the inevitable fate of power.

Frank Herbert

#16. Pass on hiring people you don't need, even if you think that person's a great catch.

Jason Fried

#17. The church is biblical, therefore, when it seeks to embody the words in the power of the Spirit and so become a living commentary. The church is thus not only the "people of the book" but also "the (lived) interpretation of the book.

Kevin J. Vanhoozer

#18. You hire the best people you can possibly find. Then it's up to you to create an environment where great people decide to stay and invest their time.

Rich Lesser

#19. It is the teacher's job to point out mistakes so that an individual doesn't continue to hurt themselves or others.

Frederick Lenz

#20. I did not let people tell me what to do, and I never wanted to be a groupie.

Eve Jihan Jeffers

#21. The challenge throughout has been to tell what I view as the truth about racism without causing disabling despair.

Derrick Bell