Steve Jobs Quotes

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

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

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

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.

The essence of business to me is great people run great companies. Mediocre people don't do a very good job.

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.

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

Management is always part of the equation of making the company successful, so the quality of management always matters.

In 'That Will Never Work,' I give readers a clear-eyed insider's look into how one of the least likely startups grew into one of the world's most successful companies.

Those who build great companies understand that the ultimate throttle on growth for any great company is not markets, or technology, or competition, or products. It is one thing above all others: the ability to get and keep enough of the right people.

Make sure you pick good people to build your business with, as they'll determine 80 percent of your success.

A company should limit its growth based on its ability to attract enough of the right people.

When you’re in a startup, the first ten people will determine whether the company succeeds or not.

Be really picky with your hiring, and hire the absolute best people you possibly can. People are the most important component of almost every business, and attracting the best talent possible is going to make a huge difference.

Steve Jobs has a saying that A players hire A players; B players hire C players; and C players hire D players. It doesn't take long to get to Z players. This trickle-down effect causes bozo explosions in companies.

Part of the talent of any company is to surround yourself with people who have good spirit and help you do more and more things.

Our attitude is that if you hire good people and pay them a fair wage, then good things will happen for the company.

When someone is made the head of an office in the Ogilvy & Mather chain, I send him a Matrioshka doll from Gorky. If he has the curiosity to open it, and keep opening it until he comes to the inside of the smallest doll, he finds this message: If each of us hires people who are smaller than we are, we shall become a company of dwarfs. But if each of us hires people who are bigger than we are, we shall become a company of giants.

The responsibility of the company is to help the people, grow as people. If we can do that, then the company will grow as a company.

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.

I have to have the sensibility to keep Versace company in good shape because there are so many people working for it, and we need to have the company grow and also be relevant. So I work very hard for all that to happen, and I wish people would know me for that and be satisfied.

Being an entrepreneur is not about being in love with an idea, it's about being in love with running a company.

You build a better company by building better people.

We talk to a team they've gotten new things done, that's the best predictor we have that a company will be successful.

I don’t think there’s any company that has reached $1 billion in revenue as fast as Xiaomi. In every conceivable benchmark, it’s almost unprecedented in terms of its speed of growth.