Sam Altman Quotes

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

Time spent on hiring is time well spent.

AirBnB spent 5 months interviewing their first employee, before they hired someone and in their first year, they only hired 2 people.

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

No one could have brought in more personnel than we have to build a football team.

No matter how you hire, ensuring the systems are in place to manage the process will be critical in allowing you to find the right people to carry the standards you set. Don't neglect that duty!

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

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

The second part of how to hire: try not to.

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

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.

Make hiring a top priority.

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

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.

By creating useful job descriptions and making clear what qualifications should be expected, the Department aims to help improve schools' ability to recruit the right people.

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

LinkedIn is increasingly becoming a very strong place for companies to develop their talent plans, their recruitment plans, and so there are ways in which we can track some of the momentum there.

Successful companies hire people.

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

We're really critical with the process of who we hire. But when you put great people in position, that's how you avoid any missteps.

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

Managers live and die by their recruitment.

ZipRecruiter's data-driven approach to matching the right employer with the most qualified job-seeker helps reduce the time, resources and frustrations expended during the hiring process, and the company is well positioned to extend its offerings to serve both employers and job seekers.

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

My job is to get the very best people we can.