Dan Gilbert Quotes

My gift, if I have one, is choosing terrific talent and providing the atmosphere for them to do their best work.

You know, as most entrepreneurs do, that a company is only as good as its people. The hard part is actually building the team that will embody your company's culture and propel you forward.

Successful business leaders who have helped build institutions of lasting value - all are committed to talent and a culture of excellence. This is usually accomplished by the identification, retention, and development of great people.

As a designer, design director or any creative person, you have to hire great people, support them and make them feel comfortable so they can contribute and give you their best.

I'm proud that I've been able to attract an incredible team to work with me.

My job is to recruit the best players I can recruit. When they get here, challenge them and grow them into their best version.

I've always said that if you can get the best people who are good at what they do, but more importantly are passionate about what they do, you'll succeed.

You try to get the most out of the talent. Make 'em work and let 'em play.

Star performers are my favorite to manage and lead. Star performers are critical to any organization, and the key is how can you capture their heart-share and their mind-share when they're on this fast track.

I hadn't really worked in an office before Shutterstock, so I didn't have the experience of building a culture, nor did I understand how important that is for attracting and retaining the best talent.

I used to think business was 50 percent having the right people. Now I think it's 80 percent.

Talent is the No. 1 priority for a CEO. You think it's about vision and strategy, but you have to get the right people first.

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

Hire for passion and intensity; there is training for everything else.

As CEO of a big company, I have to be a kind of a champion of the interests of our people as insofar as their ability to do their job, to feel comfortable in their work environment, and to be able to fulfill their ambitions.

The most important thing is that you hire people who complement you and are better than you in specific areas. Good people hire people better than themselves. So A players hire A+ players.

For a startup to overcome obstacles and succeed, it must foster limitless thinking. By hiring students into their first career job, you get to set their framework for how a company functions and instill them with your values for your company's culture.

The most important ingredient for the success of any company is the quality of its people, starting with its leadership team.

As a professional services company, our people ultimately make the difference in delivering high-quality services to clients. This is why we are so focused on attracting the best people and investing to further develop their skills.

Running businesses of all sizes and stages, I've seen the challenges companies face in trying to identify, attract, and retain talent.

One of the most important jobs of a great leader is to attract great talent.

A policy of knowing your replacement is one of the best ways to drive a growth culture. It anticipates and eliminates the most harmful politics in leadership for an expanding company and instantly sets the right tone for a high-talent, growth-mindset executive team.

SK will evolve and develop based on its corporate culture and human resources.

Raising capital is not the toughest part. The toughest part is building a great team and making sure it's growing with the company.

An empowered and enriched workforce is the backbone of a company's success framework.