hiring Quotes

“Find, develop, and support good people, and they in turn will find, develop, and own good ideas.”

“The moment you feel the need to tightly manage someone, you’ve made a hiring mistake. The best people don’t need to be managed. Guided, taught, led–yes. But not tightly managed.”

“Take advantage of difficult economic times to hire great people, even if you don’t have a specific job in mind.”

“You don’t hire for skills, you hire for attitude. You can always teach skills.”

“My good friends,” said George, as soon as he could get a silence, “there’ll be no need for you to leave me. The place wants as many hands to work it as it did before. We need the same about the house that we did before. But, you are now free men and free women. I shall pay you wages for your work, such as we shall agree on. The advantage is, that in case of my getting in debt, or dying,—things that might happen,—you cannot now be taken up and sold.”