Stephen A. Schwarzman Quotes

There would not be enough talent that's educated, developed and ready to take on the next leadership challenge, and it would cap our growth. Now we've put programs in place not to have that happen, but that could be a weakness.

The first thing you always do is seek out the best people that you can find for your organization. If you find the best people, you can basically go anywhere you want to go because they will take you there.

People say the most important thing is building a world-class team.

All companies of any size have to continue to push to make sure you get the right leaders, the right team, the right people to be fast acting, and fast moving in the marketplace. We've got great leaders, and we continue to attract and promote great new leaders.

Today, the biggest bottleneck to the growth of a corporation is availability of good talent.

You know, as most entrepreneurs do, that a company is only as good as its people. The hard part is actually building the team that will embody your company's culture and propel you forward.

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.

A great advantage of a large corporation is supposed to be the large pool of talent in which its leaders can find and groom high achievers and successors.

Our approach to continuously investing in the scales and capabilities of our people helps us meet the needs of our clients and enhances our ability to attract the very best talent in our industry.

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.

CEOs who can hire properly, that's the most important part of the job. The CEO's job is really to hire the right team and execute the vision second.

The best way to be productive is to have a great team. So I spend more time than most CEOs on human resources. That's 20 percent of my week.

Get the best people and train them well.

What is Oracle? It's people. We rely on our HR department to build this organization, to help find those people, to help grow those people.

Hire the best people, and trust what you hired them to do.

As a company grows from 25 to 50 to 100 to 200 to 500 to 1000 people, the characteristics of who is the very best talent in leadership roles will change. It's rarely the case that your leadership team at 1000 people is the same leadership team you had a 25 people.

The most important thing is that you hire people who complement you and are better than you in specific areas. Good people hire people better than themselves. So A players hire A+ players.

I have the best agents in the world.

The most important ingredient for the success of any company is the quality of its people, starting with its leadership team.

In terms of challenges, I think finding the right people to maximize the chances the business will succeed is the hardest thing. You can crunch the numbers any way you want, but at the end of the day, you really need good employees and investors - and they aren't always easy to find.

Running businesses of all sizes and stages, I've seen the challenges companies face in trying to identify, attract, and retain talent.

You obviously have to build a culture, a foundation. You must build the right talent however you do it. Then you have to build the systems and the habits.

SK will evolve and develop based on its corporate culture and human resources.

Raising capital is not the toughest part. The toughest part is building a great team and making sure it's growing with the company.

Growth is essential to attracting the best and most sophisticated talent.