James C. Collins Quotes

Acquiring and keeping good people is a leader's most important task.

Getting the right people in the right jobs is a lot more important than developing a strategy.

All companies of any size have to continue to push to make sure you get the right leaders, the right team, the right people to be fast acting, and fast moving in the marketplace. We've got great leaders, and we continue to attract and promote great new leaders.

Successful companies hire people.

SK will evolve and develop based on its corporate culture and human resources.

HR should be every company's killer app. What could possibly be more important than who gets hired?

I think the most important thing I thought is, I thought about recruiting and what we need in recruiting.

I used to think business was 50 percent having the right people. Now I think it's 80 percent.

You know, as most entrepreneurs do, that a company is only as good as its people. The hard part is actually building the team that will embody your company's culture and propel you forward.

There are times when we have to add resources to Apple, grow talent to do something that we weren't able to do before.

Running businesses of all sizes and stages, I've seen the challenges companies face in trying to identify, attract, and retain talent.

Raising capital is not the toughest part. The toughest part is building a great team and making sure it's growing with the company.

Those who build great companies understand that the ultimate throttle on growth for any great company is not markets, or technology, or competition, or products. It is one thing above all others: the ability to get and keep enough of the right people.

I don't know where we should take this company, but I do know that if I start with the right people, ask them the right questions, and engage them in vigorous debate, we will find a way to make this company great.

People are not your most important asset....the right people are.

Recruiting is a core competency for any company. It should never be outsourced.

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.

Have a vision. Communicate it clearly. Pick the right people and put them in the right jobs.

Actually, there is no more important task for a leader than to pick people. To make sure you have the very best people working for you.

I learnt earlier on that If you can run one company.You can really run any company.A company is all about finding the right people and inspiring those people,drawing out the best in people

If you always hire people who are bigger than you are, we shall become a company of giants

Make hiring a top priority.

My recruiting key - I looked for PEOPLE first, athletes second. I wanted people with a sound value system as you cannot buy values. You're only as good as your values. I learned early on that you do not put greatness into people...but somehow try to pull it out.

If I were running a company today, I would have one priority above all others: to acquire as many of the best people as I could. I'd put off everything else to fill my bus. Because things are going to come back. My flywheel is going to start to turn. And the single biggest constraint on the success of my organization is the ability to get and to hang on to enough of the right people.

Talent is our No.1 operating priority and our most important asset.