Walter Becker Quotes

Recruiting is not an exact science.

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

I can remember loving to recruit. I knew I was going to do my best. But traveling and recruiting doesn't appeal to me any more. It's not as much fun as it used to be.

Twitter is amazing. I advertised for the position of research assistant on Twitter, and both of my researchers came from there.

It is much easier to hire your 20th person than your 1st.

I've hired people I've met at parties and other events, and I've hired a lot of people right out of college. It's really based on personality as opposed to experience.

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

Rightly or wrongly, for better or worse, valuation is a very important tool for recruiting - particularly in the markets for software engineering, where the market is really tight.

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

We talk a lot in Silicon Valley about product pipelines and sales pipelines, but what about talent pipelines? It is, after all, talent - people - who give us products to sell.

I think I've interviewed probably 1,500 people in my 24-year business career.

We've always looked for guys and girls who have striking ability... there's a reason my past company was called Strikeforce.

You're either not hiring at all or it's probably your single biggest block of time.

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

To get the very best people- they have a lot of great options, and so it can easily take a year to recruit someone.

Never run from anything immortal. It attracts their attention.

If you see crazy coming, cross the street!

My mother warned me to avoid things colored red.

I want to avoid sounding like I'm criticizing because I don't have all the facts in front of me yet. And I am trying to be a unifier.

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

An undertaking beset with danger.

It's easier to avoid the snares of love than to escape once you are in that net.

You really should stay away from me.

Most people guard against going into the fire, and so end up in it.

I'm not looking at anything now. I'll look at it at the time. What I have seen, what I've seen is so bad.