Travis Bradberry Quotes

The more complicated and powerful the job, the more rudimentary the preparation for it.

Never write on a subject until you have read yourself full of it.

I fire very little because I try to be very careful when I select people. If you know how to select, you don't fire often.

I probably was as bad as a security guard as I was as a tie salesman.

I do my job in Type O Negative.

Study the field that you want to get into and know everything about it.

My employer was never at any time aware of anything in my past beyond the writing I did, because, frankly, it isn't relevant to the job I was asked to do, which was to be a reporter.

The thing about anything in life is you have to get ready for it. Study, learn.

A man has to learn to be a Representative just as he must learn to be a blacksmith, a carpenter, a farmer, an engineer, a lawyer, or a doctor.

If you're interested in the job and in the kind of work that's done, you have to have an interest in who's going to fill your shoes.

Just put the best person into the job.

I got a job to do on the field.

If somebody were more passionate about Redfin, how would she not be more qualified to have my job than I am? Like, that's the thing I have to be the best at.

It's a good thing to remember that hiring will get easier as you scale - but you should also never drop your standards.

All too often, new hires have a different expectation of their job and responsibilities than the organization does. Any miscommunication during the recruiting process needs to be cleared up ASAP. Whenever possible, give new employees a written plan of objectives and responsibilities.

No use going to class unless you go to the library.

For me, quality of role is important, and if a role excites me, I do it.

I usually hire people who have very exemplary work experience. Where they went to school, or what degree they have, really has no play into the hiring decision.

The best way to become acquainted with a subject is to write about it.

Never write on a subject without first having read yourself full on it; and never read on a subject till you have thought yourself hungry on it.

My encouragement to you is to go tomorrow to the library.

Utterance is the evidence of foregone study.

... studying is a preparation for knowing; it is a patient and impatient exercise on the part of someone whose intent is not to know it all at once but to struggle to meet the timing of knowledge.

If there's a field you're interested in, do some research. If you can, go to school and study it to really understand it from its core.

The advise my dad gave me: "To know is to study." Get some training under your belt, so that nobody what somebody asks you to do, you know how to handle it accordingly. I learned so much while working, because I developed a solid work ethic in school. Whereas, a lot of my friends had no work ethic; and because of that, they're sitting at home today.