Sam Altman Quotes

AirBnB spent 5 months interviewing their first employee, before they hired someone and in their first year, they only hired 2 people.

... how much time you should be spending on hiring? The answer is 0 or 25 percent.

Most great companies in tech have been built by personal referrals for the first...at least 100 employees and often many more.

No one could have brought in more personnel than we have to build a football team.

We hired extremely slowly at the beginning. It took us a year to get to four people. It's hard to hire as a very small company, and we wanted to make sure we found people who cared a lot about what Stripe was doing.

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

There are no more holes in my management lineup.

When I used to recruit in college, my sole job was to out-recruit what I had. And if I did that, I knew we would grow and be successful.

Ferrari always tries to get the best possible drivers, and my fellow team members have always been highly promising people.

HR should be every company's killer app. What could possibly be more important than who gets hired?

If you want to scale-up, the first thing you have to do is to expand your own team.

You want to think about what is the path for my first 10 or 15 employees going to be as the company grows.

Part of being able to make great decisions around that and to really grow a business and scale a business, it also comes down to people. I spend a lot of time building teams at both businesses - both The Trump Organization and my own - and thinking about who to hire to supplement the team and allow us to best achieve our goals.

One of the things we have learned in the first year is that if you want to scale-up, the first thing you have to do is to expand your own team.

You win with people, not with talent. So the quality of the people is very important in building your team. I always looked for people with a solid value system. Then I recruited kids from a cross-section of different personalities, talents and styles of play.

If you don't hire at least one or two people that are smarter than you are, then you're a terrible manager and I don't need you.

I never said that. The fact is we are going to open over hundreds of stores this year and next and increase employment by over 5,000 jobs worldwide. And, we have no plans to cut team hours as a result of the Affordable Care Act.

The best source by far for hiring is people that you already know and people that other employees in the company already know.

At the beginning, you should only hire when you have a desperate need to.

The key for us, number one, has always been hiring very smart people.

If you always hire people who are bigger than you are, we shall become a company of giants

If you compromise in the first five, ten hires it might kill the company.

As a business owner or manager, you know that hiring the wrong person is the most costly mistake you can make.

Get the best player because whether it's soccer or whether it's anything else the team with the best players wins. So focus your energy on getting the best and getting rid of the weakest.

The more employment one creates, the more tax benefits they will get.