Steve Ballmer Quotes

We just want to have great people working for us.

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

You have got to attract the brightest and the best, but the brightest and best won't stay unless they see real career options.

A lot of great people come to Facebook. In our business, we're about how do we help connect our companies to great people across all levels.

Executives must place a priority on wellbeing if they want to attract the right people, keep their best people, and drive their company's financial performance.

Employees are a company's greatest asset - they're your competitive advantage. You want to attract and retain the best; provide them with encouragement, stimulus, and make them feel that they are an integral part of the company's mission.

Successful companies hire people.

When you hire someone, you are investing in them.

Growth is essential to attracting the best and most sophisticated talent.

The best way to build the best workforce is to focus on the largest talent pool you have.

Human resources are like natural resources; they're often buried deep. You have to go looking for them; they're not just lying around on the surface.

One great worker equals three not-so-great workers, so it's worth paying terrific people not just for today but to find people that we think have upward mobility to become tomorrow's leaders.

The best way to be productive is to have a great team. So I spend more time than most CEOs on human resources. That's 20 percent of my week.

It's no wonder that new ventures such as The Daily look first to Gawker Media when staffing up. We should not wait for a poaching expedition to pay someone what they deserve. I apologize if that has been the case and will do better in 2012.

Today, the biggest bottleneck to the growth of a corporation is availability of good talent.

One of the attractive things about being in Scotland is that we have a very good pipeline of new people coming into the company from the excellent universities around us.

Get the best people and train them well.

What is Oracle? It's people. We rely on our HR department to build this organization, to help find those people, to help grow those people.

Our industry has invested so much money in technology that perhaps it's time to invest in talent, in people.

Someone asked me about what's it like managing 2.2 million associates, and I said, 'When they're Wal-Mart associates, it's not all that hard because of the quality and the depth of our talent.' I'm really proud of the fact that 70% of the managers in the U.S. started as hourly associates with our company.

Whether it's developers or industry veterans on the business side, top talent likes to work together.

Human resources are the most valuable assets the world has.

I have the best agents in the world.

If you want to hire the best people, the best people are already doing pretty impressive things. They have their life plans, their picture for what they want to be doing. To figure out a way in which those trajectories align really takes time.

You can fire your revenues by firing your people.