Recruitment Criteria Quotes

Duke recruits the best basketball players. They don't recruit dunkers or highlight makers. They recruit good basketball players.

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

They wouldn't take me in the navy because of my glass eye. So I joined the merchant navy, who allowed monocular crew if you worked in the kitchens. You're not wanted on deck or in the engine room with one eye, but you're good to fire up the ovens and cook hundreds of chops.

Microsoft has long hired based on IQ and "intellectual bandwidth."

I've turned down players based on their Twitter handles. I've turned down players based on Twitter pictures.

You chose us. Now we have to choose you.

What characteristics do I look for when hiring somebody? That's one of the questions I ask when interviewing. I want to know what kind of people they would hire.

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

I don't hire anybody not brighter than I am. If they're not brighter than I am, I don't need them.

If I walk in a home and a kid disrespects a woman, his mother or grandmother, then I am out... I wont recruit them

We have a social media background screening that you've got to go through and if you have a social media nickname or something on your Twitter account that makes me sick, I'm not going to recruit you.

The only way I’d ever recruit a white quarterback to play for me is if his mom and daddy would both have to be black, and that’s the only way I would do it.

I would never recruit a player who yells at his teammates, disrespected his high school coach, or scores 33 points a game and his team goes 10-10.

My rule was I wouldn't recruit a kid if he had grass in front of his house. That's not my world. My world has a cracked sidewalk.

I established the rule that once we hire an employee, his school records are a matter of the past and are no longer used to evaluate his work or decide on his promotion.