Hiring Quotes - Page 5

• As president, Nixon imposed wage and price controls, created the Environmental Protection Agency, initiated race-based hiring schemes, signed SALT I with the Soviets and instituted rapprochement with the Red Chinese. All of this resulted in liberals ... despising him even more!

  Ann Coulter

  Agency, Race, Chinese

  "'Scratch-Off' Miers" by Ann Coulter, www.realclearpolitics.com. October 27, 2005.

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• Hiring people to write code to sell is not the same as hiring people to design and build durable, usable, dependable software.

  Larry Constantine

  Writing, People, Design

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• It was dramatic to watch my grandmother decapitate a turkey with an ax the day before Thanksgiving. Nowadays the expense of hiring grandmothers for the ax work would probably qualify all turkeys so honored with gourmet status.

  Russell Baker

  Food, Grandmother, Funny Thanksgiving

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• Rome ... at its most decadent, had never thought of hiring an actor to go through the motions of being an emperor while the Praetorian Guard ruled.

  Gore Vidal

  Rome, Political, Actors

  Gore Vidal (1998). “The American presidency”, Common Courage Pr

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• The company calls it 'downsizing' or 'rightsizing.' My own informal "Name the Layoff" contest produced some other euphemisms: Retroactive Hiring Freeze, Resume Revision Days, Amway Opportunity Time, and Corporation Lite.

  Dale Dauten

  Opportunity, Names, Insightful

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• Why are CEO's who slash jobs so proud of themselves? Instead of bragging about 'cutting fat,' they ought to be getting up before their employees and saying, We did such a lousy job of planning and hiring that we have more people than work. And we are so broke and so dim-witted that we can't come up with any way to get more work. So our only solution is to send a lot of good people home. I am ashamed and I am sorry.

  Dale Dauten

  Jobs, Sorry, Home

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• Businesses should no longer be allowed to depress wages by hiring illegal labor and then falsely claim that Americans don't want to do the jobs.

  Dana Rohrabacher

  Depressing, Jobs, Wages

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• One thing I learned in '97, when I thought the right time to found a company was during a swing-up, is that it's much better to start during an economic downturn. Partnerships are easier; hiring is easier; and the competition starts later.

  Reid Hoffman

  Swings, Competition, Partnership

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• So many actors wear wigs nowadays. Besides, if someone is hiring me because of how I wear my hair, I don't want to work with them anyway.

  Maria Bello

  Hair, Wigs, Actors

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• People aren't hiring just a picture, they're hiring someone they can work with. That plays a big role .

  Gregory Heisler

  Play, People, Roles

  Source: aphotoeditor.com

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• I think I have a good eye for talent. I think I'm smart enough to figure out what the mission is and achieve it. I achieve it by hiring good people.

  Roger Ailes

  Smart, Eye, Thinking

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• 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

  College, People, Balance

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• If you have a choice between qualifications and personal qualities when it comes to hiring people, go with personal qualities. You can teach them the job.

  Roger Ailes

  Jobs, Personal Qualities, People

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• The music business would be much better, for the youth and the kids, if they start hiring employees that understand the kids.

  Suge Knight

  Kids, Would Be, Youth

  "The Life and Times of Suge Knight". Live Q&As, www.washingtonpost.com. June 18, 2007.

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• We get the best people we can get and it turns out a lot of them are women. I've said this before If you hire people solely on their merit you wind up hiring a lot of women. I wonder how many other shows even come close to our numbers.

  Callie Khouri

  Wind, Numbers, People

  Source: blogs.indiewire.com

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• I never want to write something until I know every scene in the movie. I don't want someone hiring me and then me not being able to write it. Which is always a fear. So I like to figure it out, know all the characters, and know almost every scene in the movie before I start writing.

  Stephen Sommers

  Writing, Character, Want

  "Featured Filmmaker: Stephen Sommers". www.ign.com. January 21, 2003.

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• My advice to African leaders is to make sure that if, in fact, China is putting in roads and bridges, number one, that they are hiring African workers; number two, that the roads don't just lead from the mine to the port to Shanghai.

  Barack Obama

  Bridges, Two, Numbers

  "An interview with the president". Interview with John Micklethwait and Edward Carr, www.economist.com. August 2, 2014.

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• Since dictating the Bible, and hiring a perfect race of ministers to explain it, God has never done much but creep around and try to catch us disobeying it.

  Sinclair Lewis

  Race, Perfect, Trying

  Sinclair Lewis (1995). “Main Street: The Story of Carol Kennicott”, p.141, Penguin

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• Gas stations are considering hiring security guards. Why are they getting security guards? We're the ones getting robbed.

  Jay Leno

  Security Guards, Gas Stations, Considering

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• In eighteenth-century England, there was a practice of hiring a picturesque hermit who would inhabit the beautiful ruin on your estate. To me it rhymes with certain kinds of pop-music entertainers and eccentrics - both touted and tolerated.

  David Grubbs

  Beautiful, Practice, Ruins

  Interview with Nick Hallett, logger.believermag.com. May 16, 2013.

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• When I have hiring power, I try to work with women in my camera crew as much as possible.

  Elle Schneider

  Trying, Cameras, Crew

  "There Aren’t Enough Women Cinematographers and That Needs to Change" by Elle Schneider, www.indiewire.com. October 30, 2014.

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• More proof that trusting the Feds to protect our information is like hiring Homer Simpson to guard the donuts.

  Robert X. Cringely

  Information, Proof, Feds

  "Things That Make You Cringe". InfoWorld, Volume 28, No. 51, December 18, 2006.

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• I think what grows the economy is when you get that tax credit that we put in place for your kids going to college. I think that grows the economy. I think what grows the economy is when we make sure small businesses are getting a tax credit for hiring veterans who fought for our country. That grows our economy.

  Barack Obama

  Country, Kids, Thinking

  The second presidential debate at Hofstra University, www.democracynow.org. October 17, 2012.

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• Three years ago we said you'd have to think long and hard about hiring a recruiter with less than a couple of hundred LinkedIn connections. Now the same holds true for candidates in general.

  Kris Dunn

  Couple, Thinking, Years

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• Quotas are a perfectly logical, if diabolical, extension of the regulation of private property courtesy of the Civil Rights Act, whereby in an attempt to shape American society in politically pleasing ways, people have been coerced into liking, hiring or renting against their will or better judgment.

  Ilana Mercer

  Rights, People, Quota

  "Liberty and the Civil Wrongs Act". www.wnd.com. April 02, 2010.

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