Human Resource Management Quotes

History reports that the men who can manage men manage the men who can manage only things, and the men who can manage money manage all.

Human capital will go where it is wanted, and it will stay where it is well treated. It cannot be driven; it can only be attracted.

Trouble results when the speed of growth exceeds the speed of nurturing human resources. To use the analogy of growth rings in a tree, when unusually rapid growth caused the rings to grow abnormally thick, the tree trunk weakens and is easily broken.

If you get the best people on your team, you've got plenty of time to do the things you like to do and can add more value to.

I think I have a good eye for talent. I think I'm smart enough to figure out what the mission is and achieve it. I achieve it by hiring good people.

When hiring key employees, there are only two qualities to look for: judgement and taste. Almost everything else can be bought by the yard.

People aren't the same. Business is, in my opinion, all about the team that fields the best players. It's not about an idea. An idea goes away. Somebody catches up with it. It's not about a widget.

Here's what management is about: Pick good people and set the right priorities.

We need to make sure we have the best people we can in our operations, and that is a constant challenge. There is always room to improve.

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

I have thousands and thousands of people on my payroll. Over the years, I have had tens of thousands of people that work for me. You're picking up one club where it has a high season where it's very, very hard. It's very hard to get people in Palm Beach during the season, during the social season.

Get the right people. Then no matter what all else you might do wrong after that, the people will save you. That's what management is all about.

The companies that look after their people are the companies that do really well. I'm sure we'd like a few other attributes, but that would be the most important one.

Achieving the highest possible return on human capital must be every manager's goal.

None can be more negative in its impact than the limitation on human resource capacity.

The surprise of the fight on the long day, of the experiments with the shorter one, has been not only that the business could stand it, but that the business thrived under it as surely as the man did. It is but another of the proofs which are heaping up in American industry to-day that whatever is good for men and women - contributes to their health, happiness, development - is good for business.

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.

Hiring people is an art, not a science, and resumes can't tell you whether someone will fit into a company's culture.

Access to talented and creative people is to modern business what access to coal and iron ore was to steel-making.

It's private enterprise that can create jobs and fill them. It's business that can train people and make them productive tax-payers. And it's America Inc. that has the most to gain from tapping this extraordinary human resource.