Bill Gates Quotes

The key for us, number one, has always been hiring very smart people.

Time spent on hiring is time well spent.

Above all else, look around to employ the best talent you possibly can.

One of the great things about building a tech company is the amazing people that you can hire.

Be really picky with your hiring, and hire the absolute best people you possibly can. People are the most important component of almost every business, and attracting the best talent possible is going to make a huge difference.

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.

Yes, I've had some pretty good luck finding wonderful talent.

Not only does Yahoo! have a unique franchise, it increasingly has industry-leading tools, technology and, most importantly, people.

You're only as good as the people you hire.

It's getting the right person that's the challenge.

I love picking people. I started Blackstone, and we had no people, and now we have with our portfolio companies about 750,000 people all over the world. Everybody who is at a senior level has ultimately been picked by me.

I'm always looking for new talent.

You'll have to hire people to expand your business. But it's a good discipline to really question if you need each and every hire.

Hiring's tough. It's not just filtering through hundreds of applications and blocking out big chunks of your day for interviews - those are the simple parts. The difficult thing is the nagging feeling that, despite your best efforts, the perfect candidate will somehow fall through the cracks.

Think about the way most companies currently hire. You post a job and then get blind resumes in response. This should be a social experience.

We are being super selective on who we bring in and really just trying to hire the very best.

Successful companies hire people.

I want the best people, not just on the banking side but on innovation and technology.

I'd like to build a superteam. I'd like the superteam to come to me.

If I'm an entrepreneur and I have an idea, and I don't have the development talent around me but I need to find a developer, I would do my selection just like I would with hiring an employee.

Every time I can find another engineer to add to the Chrome OS platform, I'm going to hire him.

Recruiting is all about relationships, it's not really about the facilities or the schools involved.

As founder of Eventbrite, I've interviewed almost every single person we've hired.

A personnel guy always wants to get his pick right. We live that every year. We want to make sure the pick is right.

I have a wealth of experience, but I do not want to coach. I rather like the role of recruiter.