Jimmy Johnson Quotes

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

I've never been very good at manipulating my career, but fortunately I haven't needed to.

I'm really good at hiring good people.

Whatever we can't develop internally - and nobody develops everything internally - you have to be able to trade and sign free agents.

We will employ almost every strategy and hustle in any possible way to recruit top engineers to our team.

Recruiting is not an exact science.

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

The legwork is always hard. Really finding people that you think are good enough. Just the definition of what we have to do is finding good enough people that you really think are special.

My philosophy is to always find the smartest people you can. Hire people smarter than you.

One thing that founders always underestimate is how hard it is to recruit.

People have an idea that one is in control of a career, a lot more than you really are. You can engineer things to an extent. But you are at the mercy of what comes in across the desk.

I'm always looking for new talent.

I wasn't a businesswoman, so I didn't know how to build a career.

At the Centers for Disease Control, I rose up fairly quickly into management positions. The first team I led there included many people who had been my supervisors in previous roles or were more senior than I was. So it was kind of a daunting challenge.

If there's any secret to my success, it's that I just hire people who are smarter and more talented than I am.

There is something suspect, especially in America, about people who don't have ten-year plans for a career or at least a regular job.

I struggled for so long to try to create a career.

When you lose your job and it is about football, I can quickly put things in order and move on.

I always make sure I hire people smarter than me.

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

If you are a manager who is in your first or second job, the big worry would be where is your next job coming from, but I'm not in that position.

As founder of Eventbrite, I've interviewed almost every single person we've hired.

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.

I have a wealth of experience, but I do not want to coach. I rather like the role of recruiter.