Employee Selection Quotes

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The skilful employer of men will employ the wise man, the brave man, the covetous man, and the stupid man.

Here's a more controversial idea: In general, Democrats and progressives ought to allow Trump considerable room to choose his own employees - far more room than Republicans allowed during the Obama administration. Tit-for-tat is a dangerous game.

Hiring people is like making friends. Pick good ones, and they'll enrich your life. Make bad choices, and they'll bring you down.

Hospitality is almost impossible to teach. It's all about hiring the right people.

You know, if I've done anything right, it has been hiring the right people.

I don't hire people who have to be told to be nice. I hire nice people.

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

Managers live and die by their recruitment.

Usually, you hire people that you think are wonderful.

I try to hire people who will challenge and have the humility to be challenged - people who have basically good values.

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

We all prospect, and don't even know we're doing it. When you start the dating process, you are actually prospecting for the person you want to marry. When you're interviewing employees, you are prospecting for someone who will best fit your needs.

My feeling is unless they've somebody lined up and they are convinced he is going to be better than Brian, I think their decision has been made in haste.

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

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.

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.

At Brit + Co, our mission is to unlock creativity, so we look for future employees that actively flex their creative muscles. The design of your resume is the first way to let me know more about your aesthetic.

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

If you pick the right people and give them the opportunity to spread their wings and put compensation as a carrier behind it you almost don't have to manage them.

Command that no one be received, or kept to be of your household indoors or without, if one has not reasonable belief of them that they are faithful, discreet, and painstaking in the office for which they are received, and withal honest and of good manners.

People are not your most important asset....the right people are.

The key to being a good manager or a good entrepreneur is to pick the right people. Pick the right people, and they'll make you look good.

If you have a choice between qualifications and personal qualities when it comes to hiring people, go with personal qualities. You can teach them the job.

I think in general, people who aren't themselves entrepreneurs are often more risk averse. And I think you see this dynamic a lot with entrepreneurial people who lead a company, which is that they hire people who complement them.