Richard Branson Quotes

One of the great things about building a tech company is the amazing people that you can hire.

Actually, there is no more important task for a leader than to pick people. To make sure you have the very best people working for you.

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

Time spent on hiring is time well spent.

Getting the right people in the right jobs is a lot more important than developing a strategy.

Hire the best people you can find. This was kind of easy in the early days of foursquare - we hired our friends who were really passionate about the stuff they were building. We have a superstar team not just because their resumes are so strong, but because they've been passionate, thinking about and tinkering in this space forever. Those are the people you want to surround yourself with.

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.

Managers live and die by their recruitment.

As founder of Eventbrite, I've interviewed almost every single person we've hired.

A personnel guy always wants to get his pick right. We live that every year. We want to make sure the pick is right.

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

I'm always looking for talented people that I want to collaborate with.

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

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

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

Make hiring a top priority.

CEOs who can hire properly, that's the most important part of the job. The CEO's job is really to hire the right team and execute the vision second.

Business is about people. It's about passion. It's about bold ideas, bold small ideas or bold large ideas.

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

Really in technology, it's about the people, getting the best people, retaining them, nurturing a creative environment and helping to find a way to innovate.

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.

In order to build a great technology company, you have to hire lots of incredibly smart people. It's a total waste to have lots of big brains but not let them work on your biggest problems.

It's very important in a restaurant to really do the right hiring because there's no restaurant that you have one cook and one chef and nobody else in the kitchen. Generally you have five, ten, 15 people with you. So that's really important is to train them right, but first you have to hire the right people.

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.

So I have this ability, if I may say so, to spot talent.