Diane Greene Quotes

I fire very little because I try to be very careful when I select people. If you know how to select, you don't fire often.

My job is to get the very best people we can.

Recruiting is not an exact science.

The service leaders hire one out of 50 applicants, sometimes one out of 100, but they're very, very careful. You can't afford not to be extremely choosy when you hire.

Selecting the right person for the right job is the largest part of coaching.

Tell me who you want to see on the Left, and I'll hire them. If you give me a big name that's out there, that's floating around and wants work, I'd be happy to hire them.

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.

I'm really good at hiring good people.

LinkedIn is increasingly becoming a very strong place for companies to develop their talent plans, their recruitment plans, and so there are ways in which we can track some of the momentum there.

Successful companies hire people.

No matter how you hire, ensuring the systems are in place to manage the process will be critical in allowing you to find the right people to carry the standards you set. Don't neglect that duty!

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

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

It's getting the right person that's the challenge.

Sure, it's fun to chat with people with interesting backgrounds who seem to have a passion for your company. But a job interview is not a friendly chat. You need to determine whether candidates, can they really do the job. So ask them to prove it.

Recruiting talent is no different than any other challenge a startup faces. It's all about selling.

Don't hire for the sake of hiring. Hire because there is no other way to do what you want to do.

By creating useful job descriptions and making clear what qualifications should be expected, the Department aims to help improve schools' ability to recruit the right people.

We're really critical with the process of who we hire. But when you put great people in position, that's how you avoid any missteps.

Just put the best person into the job.

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

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.

If the team needs me to recruit somebody, I'll be here. I'll be doing that.

Managers live and die by their recruitment.

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.