Quotes About Hiring

#1. The type of music we know as classical music began with rich people hiring musicians or owning them in a way. Without funding, it's very hard to have this experience. Be it state money or private money, there has to be someone dedicated to raising the money.

Gael Garcia Bernal

#2. Business success depends on good business leadership, and that means hiring and partnering with only the people your business really needs. These are the smart, hardworking people who know your industry as well as, or even better than, you.

Kevin J. Donaldson

#3. HBO is really famous for hiring good people and staying out of their way until they ask for help, or need it. And that reputation is earned.

Richard Russo

#4. People are buying only one thing from you: the way the engagement (hiring you, working with you, dating you, using your product or service, learning from you) makes them feel.

Seth Godin

#5. Anyone who's ever run a business knows that hiring more people is a capitalist's course of last resort, something we do only when increasing customer demand requires it. In this sense, calling ourselves job creators isn't just inaccurate, it's disingenuous'.

Linsey McGoey

#6. Failure is a great teacher; but never insist on hiring one for yourself. Learn vicariously from others' teachers.

Ashok Kallarakkal

#7. I was always self-conscious about the fact that I didn't have as much comedy experience as other people at 'SNL,' and I kept thinking they were going to realize they'd made a mistake by hiring me.

Bill Hader

#8. Clary: "Aren't they supposed to be hiring someone else to train me full-time anyway?"

Cassandra Clare

#9. Hey, listen, I think the Arby's is hiring. Have you considered that? Their death rate is really low for the area." But

Joseph Fink

#10. Not even Sen. [Joseph] McCarthy was able to repress ideas he opposed as effectively as Harvard's hiring committees have suppressed the conservative viewpoints they despise and fear.

David Horowitz

#11. I don't know how one would define an affirmative-action hire. I ultimately do not know what role race played in my hiring.

Jayson Blair

#12. Where the gaming world is going - and certainly Activision proved it by hiring me - is being willing to push and bend and move in a new direction of actually capturing the character and storytelling.

Kevin Spacey

#13. People aren't hiring me to be a 'yes' man. They have their girlfriends for that.

Brad Goreski

#14. If the penalty for hiring illegals is just a fine, it becomes a business decision. But if the penalty is jail time, illegal immigration will come to a screeching halt.

Jose Ferreira

#15. An employer would be a complete fool to let an image like college partying influence their hiring decisions.

Nick Denton

#16. There are some people who actually enjoy firing. Beware of them. Firing instills a culture of fear that will inevitably fail, and "I'll just fire them" is an excuse for not investing the time to execute the hiring process well.

Eric Schmidt

#17. The cardinal rule of taxation is that whatever you put a levy on, you'll inevitably get less of. Taxing corporate activity means less investing, less hiring, fewer jobs and a smaller economy, which hurts the rich, the poor and the middle class alike.

Adam Davidson

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Anil Kumar

#19. Well, pumpkin, if you'd stop hiring boozehounds with a hard-on for Marlowe, someone might get the job done.

Daniel Younger

#20. Nobody was ever hiring me just because I knew how to write code, they're hiring us to solve a problem that exists in their business. The coding was the medium to get to that goal, when I focused on the goal rather than the skill it made it easier to justify my services as an investment.

Liam Veitch

#21. On balance, I am a supporter of the minimum wage going up. We've got to be very careful what we wish for because some employers - and there could be a lot of them - will be scared away from hiring new people or creating incremental hours for part-time people as a result of that wage going up.

Howard Schultz

#22. We already know that anonymous letters are despicable. In etiquette, as well as in law, hiring a hit man to do the job does not relieve you of responsibility.

Judith Martin

#23. When hiring, mix Harvard Nerds with Chicago Improvisers and stir.

Tina Fey

#24. Since dictating the Bible, and hiring a perfect race of ministers to explain it, God has never done much but creep around and try to catch us disobeying it.

Sinclair Lewis

#25. As somebody who has been an executive producer on a television series, I can tell you that increasing director diversity is as simple as hiring more women and more people of color.

Lesli Linka Glatter

#26. So many actors wear wigs nowadays. Besides, if someone is hiring me because of how I wear my hair, I don't want to work with them anyway.

Maria Bello

#27. If you have a choice between qualifications and personal qualities when it comes to hiring people, go with personal qualities. You can teach them the job.

Roger Ailes

#28. The entire business world has figured out how to make huge buckets of money without hiring us to work for them.

Michael Moore

#29. The dispersal of juniper seeds is effected by the plum and cherry plan of hiring birds at the cost of their board, and thus obtaining the use of a pair of extra good wings.

John Muir

#30. One of the big concerns I have is that most of the HR departments in a lot of companies are hiring away from creativity and they don't know it. For instance, they are requiring everybody to have a college degree. The most creative people I know couldn't deal with college.

Nolan Bushnell

#31. A film set becomes its own family anyway, and all family dynamics come out during a shoot. The trick is hiring people who know how to handle that.

Noah Baumbach

#32. 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

#33. If you pay peanuts, you wind up hiring monkeys.

Hannibal

#34. I retired from acting the same time they stopped hiring me. But following my own thing of making these small indie movies has been the happiest I've ever been.

Bobcat Goldthwait

#35. I believe that as a writer and a director, you're only providing the skeleton of a character, and you're hiring actors to fill it out.

Christopher McQuarrie

#36. What I have noticed which I'm not nuts about that the trend that a lot of shows are hiring the American Idol type of talent without real training and real technique and I think that audiences are smart and sometimes seeing that things are not as high caliber as they were before.

Hugh Panaro

#37. The secret to successful hiring is this: look for the people who want to change the world.

Marc Benioff

#38. Allowing liberals to manage economic policy is like hiring monkeys to be aircraft mechanics.

James Cook

#39. When hiring key employees, there are only two qualities to look for: judgement and taste. Almost everything else can be bought by the yard.

John W. Gardner

#40. Leaving us with Eric is like hiring a babysitter who spends his time sharpening knives.

Veronica Roth

#41. Talent has no gender. People are hiring young male directors right out of film school, off of a student film or off of a film at Sundance for millions of dollars. You can do the same with a female. It's not a risk about the work if you respect the film that they made.

Gina Prince-Bythewood

#42. What is the point of hiring smart people, we asked, if you don't empower them to fix what's broken?

Ed Catmull

#43. Hiring the wrong people is the fastest way to undermine a sustainable business.

Kevin J. Donaldson

#44. Businesses should no longer be allowed to depress wages by hiring illegal labor and then falsely claim that Americans don't want to do the jobs.

Dana Rohrabacher

#45. when you read findings like the one above, and see that Jamal doesn't get the job, it's easy to shake your head at the few racist hiring managers who've tilted the odds against him. But the data we see in this chapter shows racism isn't a problem of outliers. It is pervasive.

Christian Rudder

#46. Traditionally games never used professional writers to create their narrative, so there's definitely a residual feeling that hiring a proper writer is somewhat of a luxury, rather than a necessity. Like a feng shui consultant.

Rhianna Pratchett

#47. All our hiring staff are trained to interview in English. They're trained to look for Westernized segments because we deal with global customers.

Azim Premji

#48. The best cover letters I've read are from people who have a passion for my company, and can make that passion come to life on a page. The letters that make me say, 'Yes! This person really gets it.' Because, at the end of the day, I want to hire people who already get it. Most hiring managers do.

Kathryn Minshew

#49. I like hiring people based on a feeling - this person gets it - rather than what they've done in the past.

Spike Jonze

#50. Geeks tend to think they can learn any language in a couple days and be immediately productive, but hiring companies don't always see it that way.

Dave Fecak

#51. The era of manufacturing consent has given way to the era of manufacturing news. Soon media newsrooms will drop the pretence, and start hiring theatre directors instead of journalists.

Arundhati Roy

#52. When choosing between two similar applicants, hiring managers are increasingly turning to social media outlets to supplement information they are unable to glean from applications or interviews.

Amy Jo Martin

#53. The Total Onboarding Program - An Integrated Approach To Recruiting, Hiring and Accelerating Talent

George Bradt

#54. Nothing prepares you for hiring a person whose only contribution to the workforce will be killing people!

Taona Dumisani Chiveneko

#55. For a startup to overcome obstacles and succeed, it must foster limitless thinking. By hiring students into their first career job, you get to set their framework for how a company functions and instill them with your values for your company's culture.

Jay Samit

#56. What characteristics do I look for when hiring somebody? That's one of the questions I ask when interviewing. I want to know what kind of people they would hire.

Jeff Bezos

#57. You need to have a collaborative hiring process.

Steve Jobs

#58. In most cases being a good boss means hiring talented people and then getting out of their way.

Tina Fey

#59. People aren't hiring just a picture, they're hiring someone they can work with. That plays a big role .

Gregory Heisler

#60. Since I shoot, record audio and edit, I was able to begin the filming without hiring a crew and create a sample to show broadcasters and grant organizations.

Chris Hegedus

#61. My parents were involved in community theater in New Jersey. Instead of hiring a baby sitter, they would take me with them. So my love of acting seeped in from watching my parents and seeing them having fun.

Jane Krakowski

#62. I think it would be worth the while to introduce a school of children to such [an oak grove], that they may get an idea of the primitive oaks before they are all gone, instead of hiring botanists to lecture to them when it is too late.

Henry David Thoreau

#63. 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

#64. I'm often accused of hiring people with civil rights experience, and I do plead guilty to that.

Thomas Perez

#65. If you think that hiring professionals is expensive, try hiring amateurs

Red Adair

#66. Incompetent government embraces hiring quotas, thus furthering their incompetence.

James Cook

#67. Ryanair's biggest achievement? Bringing low fares to Europe and still lowering em. Biggest failure? Hiring me.

Michael O'Leary

#68. The only reason people work for airlines is because the Nazi party is no longer hiring.

Iliza Shlesinger

#69. You're mad cause my style you're admiring,
Don't be mad ... UPS is hiring

Craig Mack

#70. I never want to write something until I know every scene in the movie. I don't want someone hiring me and then me not being able to write it. Which is always a fear. So I like to figure it out, know all the characters, and know almost every scene in the movie before I start writing.

Stephen Sommers

#71. What Dino spent most of his time doing was hiring and firing new managers. Since he ditched William Tiero three-plus years ago, he just want through these poor guys like you go through a bag of M&M's when you've got your period. Consume, and on the the next.

Deb Caletti

#72. It's a success story here in Michigan. We have hiring going on. We have new industries going on.

James P. Hoffa

#73. I was doing progressively smaller movies in England, after Harry Potter ... to the point where I was doing nine-day shoots for, like, 20p and a packet of Space Invaders. And then this happened. So I'm not just another actor who's around and jobbing. When you hire me for a job, you're hiring.

Robert Pattinson

#74. Grow slow and see what feels right - premature hiring is the death of many companies. And avoid huge growth spurts too - they can cause you to skip right over your appropriate size.

Jason Fried

#75. If you make a hiring mistake, make the change quickly. Don't ignore problems. Don't assume it will get better.

Ziad K. Abdelnour

#76. Make hiring a top priority.

Steve Ballmer

#77. 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

#78. 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

#79. Someone could be amazing at what they do, but if you don't like them, why bother hiring them?

Chip Conley

#80. G.P.A.'s are worthless as a criteria for hiring, and test scores are worthless. We found that they don't predict anything.

Laszlo Bock

#81. But I guess the lesson is this: If you don't have confidence in yourself and think that you are worth hiring, or whatever it is, you can't expect anyone else to.

Sam Donaldson

#82. The best source by far for hiring is people that you already know and people that other employees in the company already know.

Sam Altman

#83. I studied philosophy, religious studies, and English. My training was writing four full-length novels and hiring an editor to tear them apart. I had enough money to do that, and then rewriting and rewriting and rewriting.

Ted Dekker

#84. When you start to prioritize hiring likable people within your organization, these likable people will attract other likable people.

Karen Salmansohn

#85. Rome ... at its most decadent, had never thought of hiring an actor to go through the motions of being an emperor while the Praetorian Guard ruled.

Gore Vidal

#86. Build into each budget the cost of hiring and don't lump yourself with capital investment.

Ann Macbeth

#87. 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

#88. I would have worked with the devil himself if he'd been for the six hour day and worker control of the hiring hall.

Harry Bridges

#89. Three years ago we said you'd have to think long and hard about hiring a recruiter with less than a couple of hundred LinkedIn connections. Now the same holds true for candidates in general.

Kris Dunn

#90. As president, Nixon imposed wage and price controls, created the Environmental Protection Agency, initiated race-based hiring schemes, signed SALT I with the Soviets and instituted rapprochement with the Red Chinese. All of this resulted in liberals ... despising him even more!

Ann Coulter

#91. I was ready to leave with every load, with every worthy individual of respectable appearance hiring a cab; but absolutely nobody invited me, not one; it was as if they had forgotten me, as if I was actually something alien to them!

Fyodor Dostoyevsky

#92. I'm really good at hiring good people.

Sophia Amoruso

#93. Gas stations are considering hiring security guards. Why are they getting security guards? We're the ones getting robbed.

Jay Leno

#94. The biggest challenge is to build the team and start the company, while hiring people, raising money, building a brand which has no history, all at the same time. You're doing a lot of things that in an established company are already done.

Henrik Fisker

#95. It's easy: if you want to grow the economy, encourage job creation, and increase federal revenue, you support making bonus depreciation permanent. Permanency gives job creators the certainty they need to plan and invest in their businesses, including hiring employees.

Pat Tiberi

#96. You cannot have an agency that defends your property, which also has the right to violate your property rights at will. That's like hiring a bodyguard that you pay to beat you up randomly.

Stefan Molyneux

#97. 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

#98. Without global human rights, labor and environmental movements, companies would still be hiring 12-year-olds as a matter of course and poisoning our groundwater without batting an eyelid.

Rebecca MacKinnon

#99. There's a bias on hiring the best engineers wherever they come from. It does seem like a lot of the non-engineering execs come from Ivy League schools, as is true in much of corporate America and government.

Ken Auletta

#100. If you're hiring, if you're the person doing the hiring, forgive a scar or two. Remember that when we were young, we were also idiots. There were just no cameras there to catch it.

Greg Gutfeld