Keith Kellogg Quotes

I love picking people. I started Blackstone, and we had no people, and now we have with our portfolio companies about 750,000 people all over the world. Everybody who is at a senior level has ultimately been picked by me.

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.

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

Building a great team is the lifeblood of any startup, and finding great talent is one of the hardest and costliest tasks any CEO will ever face.

People say the most important thing is building a world-class team.

All companies of any size have to continue to push to make sure you get the right leaders, the right team, the right people to be fast acting, and fast moving in the marketplace. We've got great leaders, and we continue to attract and promote great new leaders.

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.

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

There would not be enough talent that's educated, developed and ready to take on the next leadership challenge, and it would cap our growth. Now we've put programs in place not to have that happen, but that could be a weakness.

I just want to work with the best people I can get my hands on.

We are being super selective on who we bring in and really just trying to hire the very best.

Money is always the least of the problems. It is finding the right business or growing the right business. You can't do that without the right people.

In terms of challenges, I think finding the right people to maximize the chances the business will succeed is the hardest thing. You can crunch the numbers any way you want, but at the end of the day, you really need good employees and investors - and they aren't always easy to find.

I always make sure I hire people smarter than me.

Our approach to continuously investing in the scales and capabilities of our people helps us meet the needs of our clients and enhances our ability to attract the very best talent in our industry.

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

A company is only as good as the people it keeps.

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

The best way to be productive is to have a great team. So I spend more time than most CEOs on human resources. That's 20 percent of my week.

Today, the biggest bottleneck to the growth of a corporation is availability of good talent.

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

Casting is everything. If you get the right people they make you look good.

One thing that founders always underestimate is how hard it is to recruit.

Start-up teams are always in flux, so, like all start-ups, we're always talking to candidates for various key roles.

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