Peter F. Hamilton Quotes

Personnel is policy.

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

It is the inescapable duty of management to fire incompetent people.

Human resources are the most valuable assets the world has. They are all needed desperately.

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

In the newspaper business, I was in the last generation before the arrival of the personnel manager. You were hired by editors - and editors who would take a chance on what they perceived to be talent and not hire a resume.

I think the biggest thing was that when I was in college, I really concentrated on personnel. That was my strength, and I was, in essence, my own recruiting coordinator. And when I went to the pros, I did the same thing.

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

As companies deal with the impact of technology and the incredible pace of change, they are fundamentally rethinking talent and family leave programs.

I run a small company with 18 employees on its payroll.

There are real people on the pitch. We're not commodities. Well, maybe we are to some degree, but it's the team which creates business. Some people don't appreciate that.

A company that can't fire people well is like a forest that never has a fire. It becomes overgrown, full of weeds, and it fails.

And people is the most important part of my job. I spend one third of my time on people.

The sinews of war are five - men, money, materials, maintenance (food) and morale.

At every other workplace in the nation - even Mal-Mart! - workers are being laid off. But no one at any of the bloated government bureaucracies ever need fear receiving a pink slip. All 64,750 employees at the department of Health and Human Services are apparently absolutely crucial to the smooth functioning of the department.

"The area in which the executive first encounters the challenge of strength is in staffing. The effective executive fills positions and promotes on the basis of what a man can do. He does not make staffing decisions to minimize weaknesses but to maximize strength."

I'm sure that I was influenced by Goldsmith's large orchestral scores when I started out, and that was because the people who employed me wanted that kind of sound. I wasn't in a position to say, 'Go to Hell!'

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 You have to create the circumstances where they show themselves.

I'm a very outgoing guy when it comes to music and I like all kinds of sounds of music and genres of music.

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

Managers are the basic and scarcest resource of any business enterprise.

You can't get so interested in just making sounds. The point of it all is some kind of expression.

I don't like this official/unofficial distinction. It sound, er, officious.

That kind of language is what makes us laugh. Like, "Well, just eFax that to me, and I'll take a look at it."

In the knowledge economy everyone is a volunteer, but we have trained our managers to manage conscripts.