21 Motivational Quotes to Motivate your Hiring team

Hiring is tough and sometimes, all of us need a push. We understand. So here are 21 of the best Hiring quotes that you can make your wallpaper or print on your desk to get it going.

21+ Motivational Quotes For Hiring Teams from Freshteam

  1. Great vision without great people is irrelevant – Jim Collins
  2. I hire people brighter than me and then I get out of their way – Lee Iacocca
  3. Hire character. Train skill – Peter Schulz
  4. Human resources isn’t a thing we do. It’s the thing that runs our business – Steve Wynn
  5. Ultimately delivering strategy is about hiring the right people and motivating them to deliver results – Helen Schubert
  6. Hire for passion and intensity; there is training for everything else – Nolan Bushnell
  7. It doesn’t make sense to hire smart people and tell them what to do; we hire smart people so they can tell us what to do – Steve Jobs
  8. If your goals are ambitious and crazy enough, even failure will be a pretty good achievement – Lazlo Bock
  9. Treat candidates like gold – Greg Savage
  10. Find ballplayers, not those who look good in baseball caps – Tom Monahan
  11. Do not hire someone who does your work for money, but they who do it for the love of it – Henry David Thoreau
  12. If you pay peanuts, you get monkeys – Chinese Proverb
  13. Time spent on hiring is time well spent – Robert Half
  14. One machine can do the work of fifty ordinary men. No machine can do the work of one extraordinary man – Elbert Hubbard
  15. Leaders don’t create followers, they create more leaders – Tom Peters
  16. Good management is the art of making problems so interesting and their solutions so constructive that everyone wants to get to work and deal with them – Paul Hawkin
  17. Never hire someone who knows less than you do about what he’s hired to do – Malcom Forbes
  18. I am convinced that nothing we do is more important than hiring and developing people. At the end of the day you bet on people, not on strategies – Lawrence Bossidy
  19. The harder you work, the luckier you get – Plato
  20. If you think it’s expensive to hire a professional to do the job, wait until you hire an amateur – Red Adair
  21. If you want to see the true measure of a man, watch how he treats his inferiors, not his equals – J.K. Rowling

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