Sallie Krawcheck Quotes

When someone leaves an office, often there's a series of successors until you settle on one.

I'm one of the great unemployed looking for the next job. I'm waiting for the right offer. Like anyone, I want something that turns me on inside.

I did something a lot of people will have to do in this economy if they want to eventually land their dream job. I turned down an offer to take a high-paying position in another field because it wouldn't fulfill me.

Never turn down a job you haven’t been offered.

Well, any time they would like to take over this job, they can have it.

The Phillies liked the work I had done with the Cubs, and really wanted me there. They were on the phone as soon as my contract was up in Chicago, and it was just a great feeling to be wanted, to be appreciated for the work you do.

It's the most incredible feeling in the world when you finally land a job.

I think I'm overrated as a recruiter.

A well-run organization turns over 10% of their organizations, including senior leadership. I don't have the heart to do that.

Accountability is a two way street. We can't just make it easier for us to fire people; we must make it easier for us to hire people. It takes VA an average of 240 days to complete the hiring process for executives joining VA from outside government. We are losing talented people because it simply takes too long.

Managers live and die by their recruitment.

I only applied for 'Countdown' as a bit of a laugh while applying for lots of other graduate jobs. I've had some amazing opportunities, and I've loved every minute.

I interviewed quite a few times and finally got a job with the Nationals. And I greatly appreciate it.

I've fired quite a few, but I've never had an employee quit on me.

And I actually had to beg for my last tryout at NXT. Yeah, I actually had to send multiple emails to say, 'I want another tryout and there's no reason you will not hire me after this tryout.' And that was the tryout that they hired me from.

And after my interview with the Bengals, I knew this was the job for me.

As people know in coaching, you can get fired and hired just like that.

PSG would have been an excellent choice. They did everything to get me.

I don't like to do a lot of interviews.

As an entrepreneur and employer, in the fairly recent past I have been astonished at how difficult it has been to get young people to take the idea of getting a job seriously.

I was a business major at the University of Richmond, and after I graduated, I took a job at a corporate ad agency. I had comedic dreams, but I also had a realistic look at what I had to do when I left school: maybe I'm funny, but maybe I'm one of a hundred thousand funny people, you know?

I think I've interviewed probably 1,500 people in my 24-year business career.

The Blanks has just been a godsend because I don't have to sit around waiting for the phone to ring and I get to go out and be gainfully employed while I'm waiting for another job.

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

I want to make it tough on the organization to not play me.