Human Resources Quotes

• Human resources are like natural resources; they're often buried deep You have to go looking for them; they're not just lying around on the surface You have to create the circumstances where they show themselves.

  Ken Robinson

  Inspirational, Education, Lying

  "How Do Schools Suffocate Creativity?". "Ted Radio Hour" with Alison Stewart, www.npr.org. June 17, 2012.

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• Human resources are the most valuable assets the world has. They are all needed desperately.

  Eleanor Roosevelt

  World, Assets, Resources

  "Tomorrow Is Now" by Eleanor Roosevelt, (p. 71), 1963.

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• Organizations are communities of human beings, not collections of human resources

  Henry Mintzberg

  Organization, Community, Resources

  Henry Mintzberg (2015). “Rebalancing Society: Radical Renewal Beyond Left, Right, and Center”, p.32, Berrett-Koehler Publishers

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• Accepted that we all are human resources, but we are humans first and resources later.

  Rutvik Oza

  Firsts, Accepted, Resources

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• In order that people may be happy in their work, these three things are needed: They must be fit for it. They must not do too much of it. And they must have a sense of success in it.

  John Ruskin

  Inspirational, Motivational, Positive

  John Ruskin (1906). “Pre-Raphaelitism”, p.7, Рипол Классик

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• The key for us, number one, has always been hiring very smart people.

  Bill Gates

  Smart, Keys, Numbers

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• 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

  Relationship, Business, People

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• An enterprise is a community of human beings, not a collection of "human resources".

  Henry Mintzberg

  Learning, Knowledge, Community

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• Our greatest resource is the human resource.

  Mal Fletcher

  Resources, Humans

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• Success in business requires training and discipline and hard work

  David Rockefeller

  Monday, Business, Hard Work

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• The secret of joy in work is contained in one word - excellence. To know how to do something well is to enjoy it.

  Pearl S. Buck

  Inspirational, Motivational, Success

  "Biography/Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• There is no deficit in human resources; the deficit is in human will.

  Martin Luther King, Jr.

  Resources, Deficit, Humans

  Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. (2013). “"In a Single Garment of Destiny": A Global Vision of Justice”, p.86, Beacon Press

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• An organization is really a factory for producing new ideas and for linking those ideas with resources - human resources, financial resources, knowledge resources, infrastructure resources - in an effort to create value. These are processes that you can map, with results that you can measure.

  John Kao

  Organization, Ideas, Effort

  Interview with Joel Kurtzman, www.strategy-business.com. October 1, 1996.

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• The only waste of human resources is letting them go unused.

  Mark Victor Hansen

  Waste, Resources, Humans

  FaceBook post by Mark Victor Hansen from Jul 29, 2015

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• Management is nothing more than motivating other people.

  Lee Iacocca

  Inspirational, Motivational, Positive

  Lee Iacocca, William Novak (2011). “Iacocca: An Autobiography”, p.57, Bantam

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• We think of our land and water and human resources not as static and sterile possessions but as life giving assets to be directed by wise provisions for future days.

  Franklin D. Roosevelt

  Wise, Thinking, Land

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• The worst loss for any country is not the infrastructure or the buildings or the material loss; actually, it's the human resources loss.

  Bashar al-Assad

  Country, Loss, Building

  The Associated Press Interview, www.foxnews.com. September 21, 2016.

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• Being busy does not always mean real work. The object of all work is production or accomplishment and to either of these ends there must be forethought, system, planning, intelligence, and honest purpose, as well as perspiration. Seeming to do is not doing.

  Thomas A. Edison

  Inspirational, Motivational, Real

  Ford Times, Vol. 6, p. 136, 1912.

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• At the end of the day you bet on people, not on strategies.

  Lawrence Bossidy

  People, The End Of The Day, Strategy

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• Thinking is the ultimate human resource.  Yet we can never be satisfied with our most important skill.  No matter how good we become, we should always want to be better

  Edward de Bono

  Thinking, Skills, Important

  Edward de Bono (2017). “Six Thinking Hats”, p.7, Penguin UK

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• Analytical software enables you to shift human resources from rote data collection to value-added customer service and support where the human touch makes a profound difference.

  Bill Gates

  Data Collection, Differences, Profound

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• You need to have a collaborative hiring process.

  Steve Jobs

  Insightful, Needs, Process

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• I am a great believer in luck, and I find the harder I work the more I have of it.

  Stephen Leacock

  Inspirational, Motivational, Positive

  Stephen Leacock, Gerald Lynch (2002). “Leacock on Life”, p.91, University of Toronto Press

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• The harder I work the more I live.

  George Bernard Shaw

  Work, Good Luck, True Joy

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• When hiring key employees, there are only two qualities to look for: judgement and taste. Almost everything else can be bought by the yard.

  John W. Gardner

  Keys, Two, Judgement

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