Quotes for Hiring

One thing I never thought about in my big-company job? Cash flow. When your business has billions of dollars in revenue, you can make a lot of mistakes and still have a viable business. But in a startup, make a few hiring mistakes, and you can find yourself in real jeopardy fast.

Sallie Krawcheck

I was always a good cook from my mum showing me when I was a young lad, but hiring a chef helped me to understand food better.

Ross Barkley

Social media is the future, with employers recognizing they need to start hiring people with the right skills.

Ryan Holmes

All my life, I've had a strong belief that I want to judge myself and others on their contribution, not their sex. I don't think much of it when employers want applause for hiring women or minorities. Whether for the Supreme Court or McDonald's, if you hire the best person, you'll have a diverse workplace.

Martha MacCallum

From casting to hiring to awards races like the Emmys, taking active steps toward inclusion will make for richer stories, a stronger democracy, and a better world.

Jay Duplass

I did freelance cartooning off and on from college graduation in 1991 through ABC News hiring me in 2003. I did a weekly comic strip for 'Roll Call' for about nine years. I sold cartoons and caricatures to 'The Los Angeles Times' and 'The Washington Post.' I drew as much as I could. It's really tough to make a living doing it.

Jake Tapper

I find being a manager really challenging. For instance, I don't enjoy some of the administrative tasks that go along with hiring and firing.

Dylan Lauren

When hiring, trust your feelings.

Peter Diamandis

No company is hiring anyone to search for messages from aliens. Most people don't seem to think there's much benefit to it. The lack of interest is, I think, because most people don't realize what even a simple detection would really mean.

Frank Drake

Big companies are often in the process of laying off workers. Small startup companies are the ones that are hiring. The statistics prove that's where job growth is going to occur.

Jerry Moran

When I started Netscape I was brand new out of college and all the aspects of building a business, like balance sheets and hiring people, were new to me.

Marc Andreessen

I had 30 years of experience in hiring and trying to attract talent and capital back to North Dakota. And any time someone talks about the future of North Dakota, what are the challenges? Where do we get the talent, and where do we get the capital? Well, that's what I've been dealing with my whole working career.

Doug Burgum

I was gonna work in a university, but no one was hiring.

Washed Out

Every white liberal straight man needs to take action and work at unifying all peoples of our sides and stop making women and people of color and the LGBT community fight it out themselves and just pat them on the back. We have to take active roles in supporting them, defending them, and hiring them.

Brett Gelman

If you're even on the fence about hiring someone, that person is a no. You have to feel it in your gut.

Alan Schaaf

When Hispanics start businesses at two times the rate of the average population, it seems to me that fewer regulations and dictates from Washington will do more to encourage start-ups, hiring, and progress up the economic ladder.

Rachel Campos-Duffy

Educating children and their parents on the universal messages of free enterprise and self-determination takes money. So does grooming political talent within the community and training and hiring Latino surrogates to bring the message to Spanish- and English-speaking media.

Rachel Campos-Duffy

I like hiring people based on a feeling - this person gets it - rather than what they've done in the past.

Spike Jonze

One classic mistake is when people give the impression that they just want a job, not this job or this company in particular. From a hiring manager's perspective, you're looking for someone who is excited about this role or this company.

Kathryn Minshew

The Clinton Democrats supported hiring more police officers.

Vernon Jones