Quotes about Hiring

The most important criterion is this: hire someone whose character and humility and attitude you would like to have reproduced in your church and in yourself.

Preachers' kids who gravitate toward ministry are commodities. I hire all I can. We see church differently than everybody else.

Good people are found not changed. Recently I read a headline that said, 'We don't teach people to be nice. We simply hire nice people.' Wow! What a clever short cut.

One of the secret benefits of hiring remote workers is that the work itself becomes the yardstick to judge someone's performance.

The bottom line is that you shouldn't hire people you don't trust, or work for bosses who don't trust you.

A lot of companies post help-wanted ads seeking "rock stars" or "ninjas." Lame. Unless your workplace is filled with groupies and throwing stars, these words have nothing to do with your business.

The right time to hire is when there's more work than you can handle for a sustained period of time.

Geography just doesn't matter anymore. Hire the best talent, regardless of where it is.

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. Even

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, Ogilvy & Mather will become a company of giants.

If you own a butcher shop, don't hire vegetarians. To hire the right people, you have to let the wrong people go.