Hire Quotes

Some are born great, some achieve greatness, and some hire public relations officers. (Daniel J. Boorstin)
Do not hire a man who does your work for money, but him who does it for love of it. View quote
Henry David Thoreau
I would rather hire a man with enthusiasm, than a man who knows everything. View quote
John D. Rockefeller
It doesn't make sense to hire smart people and then tell them what to do; we hire smart people so they can tell us what to do. View quote
Steve Jobs
Always be smarter than the people who hire you. View quote
Lena Horne
The best minds in government If any were, business would hire them away. View quote
Ronald Reagan
When you hire me, you hire a nut who is going to work 24 hours a day for you and never, ever burn his audience. View quote
Howard Stern
The look of love alarms Because tis filled with fire But the look of soft deceit Shall sin the lovers hire. View quote
William Blake
I can hire one half of the working class to kill the other half. View quote
Jay Gould
My big fight is not in the movie and I don't understand that decision but I know he's right about it, whatever it is. Quentin did not hire me because I'm a kung fu expert; he hired me because he liked to listen to me talk. View quote
David Carradine
What would people think of a tradesman, that was to give a ball in his shop, hire performers, and hand refreshments about, with a view to benefit his business? (Jean-Baptiste Say)
When men hire themselves out to shoot other men to order, asking nothing about the justice of their cause, I don't care if they are shot themselves. View quote
Herbert Spencer
I think it is astounding that people could argue for "you just must trust someone else to fix it" instead of "you could fix it yourself, or hire someone to fix it." There is a contractor base out there that can solve these problems as well as or better than the major vendors could. But I think the major vendors are still having more luck at getting the ear of the press. View quote
Theo de Raadt
Hire people who are better than you are, then leave them to get on with it. Look for people who will aim for the remarkable, who will not settle for the routine. View quote
David Ogilvy
If the only way a library can offer an Internet exhibit about the New Deal is to hire a lawyer to clear the rights to every image and sound, then the copyright system is burdening creativity in a way that has never been seen before because there are no formalities. View quote
Lawrence Lessig
Can a woman not keep her lover without she study to always please him with pleasure? Pew! Then let her give up the game. Or shall my lover think with pleasing of me to win me indeed? Faugh! He payeth me then; doth he think I am for hire? View quote
Eric Rücker Eddison
Managers tend to treat organizations as if they are infinitely plastic. They hire and fire, merge, downsize, terminate programs, add capacities. But there are limits to the shifts that organizations can absorb. View quote
Kevin Kelly (editor)
It is a mistake to hire huge numbers of people to get a complicated job done. Numbers will never compensate for talent in getting the right answer (two people who don't know something are no better than one), will tend to slow down progress, and will make the task incredibly expensive. View quote
Elon Musk
I've said consistently that no employer ever really accepts a union. They tolerate the unions. The very minute they can get a pool of unemployment they'll challenge the unions and try to get back what they call managements prerogatives, meaning hire, fire, pay what you want. View quote
Jimmy Hoffa
Our rooms were bugged, our phones were tapped, and our lawyer's rooms were broken into and their files stolen. We finally had to hire armed guards with pistols to be able to maintain our records. It was hard to believe we weren't in Russia. View quote
Jimmy Hoffa
Recently, I was asked if I was going to fire an employee who made a mistake that cost the company $600,000. No, I replied, I just spent $600,000 training him. Why would I want somebody to hire his experience? (Thomas J. Watson)
Well, I don't know as I want a lawyer to tell me what I cannot do. I hire him to tell how to do what I want to do. View quote
J. P. Morgan
For years I have told my students that I been trying to train executives rather than clerks. The distinction between the two is parallel to the distinction previously made between understanding and knowledge. It is a mighty low executive who cannot hire several people with command of more knowledge than he has himself. View quote
Carroll Quigley
Nothing so evil as money ever grew to be current among men. This lays cities low, this drives men from their homes, this trains and warps honest souls till they set themselves to works of shame; this still teaches folk to practise villainies, and to know every godless deed. But all the men who wrought this thing for hire have made it sure that, soon or late, they shall pay the price. View quote
Sophocles
Whenever you interview fat people, you feel bad, because you know you're not going to hire them. View quote
James D. Watson