Burnie Burns Quotes

You have got to attract the brightest and the best, but the brightest and best won't stay unless they see real career options.

I'm really good at hiring good people.

A lot of great people come to Facebook. In our business, we're about how do we help connect our companies to great people across all levels.

We just want to have great people working for us.

Every job I've taken, I like to bring in some new faces.

One of the challenges of having exceptionally high quality talent is that they're constantly restless, and they're constantly on the lookout for opportunities.

Increase your company's average talent with each hire - founders tend to be pretty smart but willing to take on risk. Employees should be a lot smarter and less risk averse.

I hate to see people frustrated or leave a company for an opportunity they could easily have had at their current company if they had only asked.

Certainly, we continue to bring in new people. We'll hire, net new, over 4,000 people this year, and attract great people into the company. I'm very bullish about the employee base and what it can accomplish.

When you hire good people, and you provide good jobs and good wages and a career, good things are going to happen.

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

One great worker equals three not-so-great workers, so it's worth paying terrific people not just for today but to find people that we think have upward mobility to become tomorrow's leaders.

Today, a skilled manager makes more than the owner. And owners fight each other to get the skilled managers.

It's no wonder that new ventures such as The Daily look first to Gawker Media when staffing up. We should not wait for a poaching expedition to pay someone what they deserve. I apologize if that has been the case and will do better in 2012.

People are definitely a company's greatest asset. It doesn't make any difference whether the product is cars or cosmetics. A company is only as good as the people it keeps.

In any community there's a strong pull home. People want to return, see their community get better economically and socially. You can build those community-grown opportunities for the kids who've graduated from college to return home, to provide businesses and support things going on. It'll only happen through education.

How do you make your company a good place to work in general? That's a really, really, really large and complex set of skills. A lot of it is on-the-job training, combined with excellent mentorship.

If you hire good people, give them good jobs, and pay them good wages, generally something good is going to happen.

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

I think I've got the best staff in television.

People talk about loyalty of players to clubs. But in the everyday world, you don't see people being loyal to their company when they're getting offered considerably better deals elsewhere.

Whether it's developers or industry veterans on the business side, top talent likes to work together.

The best way to have your people be happy and satisfied is to earn the right to have them come back to work for you the next day, knowing that there are tons of other places.

The first day, week and month of an employee's experience carries a lasting impression.

I have the best agents in the world.