450 Motivational Human Resource Management Quotes (2023)

1. “Employees are people who live in communities. Let's stop pretending workplaces are separate from community, places where robots go to die.”

2. “Hire character. Train skill."

3. “Do not underestimate your abilities. That is your boss’s job.” – Francis Young

4. “Unless you try to do something beyond what you have already mastered, you will never grow.” — Ralph Waldo Emerson

5. “Good management consists of showing average people how to do the work of superior people”

6. “Resources are hired to give results, not reasons.”

7. “In order to build a rewarding employee experience, you need to understand what matters most to your people.”

8. “It is important for companies to take a public stand and advocate for policies that in the best interest of their customers, employees and shareholders”

9. “I sincerely doubt employees who fear they may be laid off will be able to develop software titles that could impress people around the world”

10. “If you can be respectful and private but firm in this conversation, most problem behavior will stop. And remember, if the behavior is over the line, you shouldn’t hesitate to contact HR to ensure your rights and dignity are protected.”

11. “Make sure everybody in the company has great opportunities, has a meaningful impact and is contributing to the good of society.” — Larry Page

12. Leadership is not about a title or a designation. It’s about impact, influence, and inspiration. Impact involves getting results, influence is about spreading the passion you have for your work, and you have to inspire teammates and customers. — Robin S. Sharma

13. “Nothing we do is more important than hiring people. At the end of the day, you bet on people, not strategies.” - Lawrence Bossidy

14. “To win the marketplace, you must first win the workplace.” – Doug Conant

15. “Inventories can be managed but people must be led.” - Ross Perot

16. “No company, small or large, can win over the long run without energized employees who believe in the mission and understand how to achieve it.”

17. “Happiness, health, and work may exist together. In fact, when they do, it makes for a more resilient organization.”

18. “There should be three types of Issues Lists in your organization: 1. The Issues List in your Vision/ Traction Organizer (V/ TO). These are all company issues that can be shelved beyond 90 days. These issues are tackled in future quarterly meetings. The issues that are not a big enough priority for this week or this quarter must be stored somewhere so that you don’t lose sight of them. The V/ TO Issues List is the place for that. This list will include issues as diverse as new product ideas, key employee issues, technology needs, office relocation, capital needs, and the need for HR policies.”

19. “Train people well enough so they can leave. Treat them well enough so they don’t have to.” – Sir Richard Branson

20. “If we win the hearts and minds of the employees, we’re going to have better business success”

21. “In the long run, your human capital is your main base of competition. Your leading indicator of where you’re going to be 20 years from now is how well you’re doing in your education system.” — Bill Gates

22. “An idea that can change the course of the company can come from anywhere”

23. The hiring process CAN affect brand reputation.

24. “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.”

25. “There’s an enormous number of managers who have retired on the job.” – Peter Drucker

26. “If there were somewhere else that valued loyalty more highly, I’m going wherever they value loyalty the most.” – Dwight Shrute

27. “High achievement always takes place in the framework of high expectation.” - Charles Kettering

28. “After an extensive reading of the literature, I conclude that strategic human resource management researchers as a group deserve a D to F grade. Among the problems are an over-reliance on knowledge areas and perspectives pertaining to the internal dimension of organizations and management (eg strategy, psychology, and organizational behavior) and too little attention paid to those areas and perspectives dealing with the external dimension (economics, industrial/employment relations and the macro side of sociology)”

29. “Believe in yourself and all that you are. Know that there is something inside you that is greater than any obstacle.” — Christian D. Larson

30. “When we listen and celebrate what is both common and different, we become a wiser, more inclusive, and better organization.” — Pat Wadors, Head of HR at LinkedIn (Source: LinkedIn)

31. “There are really only a handful of core processes that make any organization function. Systemizing involves clearly identifying what those core processes are and integrating them into a fully functioning machine. You will have a human resource process, a marketing process, a sales process, an operating process, a customer-retention process, an accounting process, and so on. These must all work together in harmony, and the methods you use should be crystal clear to everyone at all levels of the organization. The first step is to agree as a leadership team on what these processes are and then to give them a name. This is your company’s Way of doing business. Once you all agree on your Way, you will simplify, apply technology to, document, and fine-tune these core processes. In doing so, you will realize tremendous efficiencies, eliminate mistakes, and make it easier for managers to manage and for you to increase your profitability.”

32. “When your work speaks for itself, don’t interrupt.” — Henry J. Kaiser

33. “If you think hiring professionals is expensive, try hiring amateurs.” – Unknown

34. “Be like a postage stamp. Stick to a thing till you get there.” — Josh Billings

35. “Constantly seek criticism. A well thought out critique of whatever you are doing is as valuable as gold”

36. “Good judgment comes from experience, and experience comes from bad judgment.” — Rita Mae Brown

37. “Every problem is a gift—without problems, we would not grow.” -Tony Robbins

38. “Healthy cultures touch everyone—not just those who are already interested in improving their well-being.”

39. “Treat employees like they make a difference and they will.” — Jim Goodnight

40. “You gain strength, courage, and confidence by every experience in which you really stop to look fear in the face.” — Eleanor Roosevelt

41. “Empathy is about finding echoes of another person in yourself.” — Mohsin Hamid

42. “True motivation comes from achievement, personal development, job satisfaction, and recognition.”

43. “Great vision without great people is irrelevant.”

44. “Time spent on hiring is time well spent.” — Robert Half

45. “Employees engage with employers and brands when they’re treated as humans.” - Meghan Biro

46. “Train people well enough so they can leave. Treat them well enough so they don’t want to.”

47. “When the trust account is high, communication is easy, instant, and effective.” - Stephen R. Covey

48. “The stronger the culture, the less corporate process a company needs. When the culture is strong, you can trust everyone to do the right thing.”

49. “The problem with a lot of companies is that HR comes second to their bottom line.”

50. “In most cases, being a good boss means hiring talented people and then getting out of their way.” – Tina Fey

51. “Businesses often forget about the culture, and ultimately, they suffer for it because you can’t deliver good service from unhappy employees.” — Tony Hsieh

52. “Lots of companies don’t succeed over time. What do they fundamentally do wrong? They usually miss the future”

53. “Getting employee feedback on the well-being culture can be very helpful in assessing progress.”

54. “True motivation comes from achievement, personal development, job satisfaction, and recognition.” — Frederick Herzberg

55. “I’m a large believer in hiring the right people and giving them unbelievable amounts of power and autonomy”

56. “Human resources isn’t a thing we do. It’s the thing that runs our business.”

57. “The greatest asset of a company is its people”

58. “I knew exactly what to do. but, in a much more real sense, I had no idea what to do.” – Michael Scott

59. “The biggest risk is not taking any risk. In a world that is changing really quickly, the only strategy that is guaranteed to fail is not taking risks”

60. “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, GE

61. “When people talk, listen completely. Most people never listen.” ― Ernest Hemingway

62. The people strategy is the business strategy.

63. “WE WILL WIN THIS WAR. When we achieve this victory, we will emerge stronger and more united than ever before!”

64. “Talent is the multiplier. The more energy and attention you invest in it, the greater the yield.”

65. “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.”

66. “If you hire people just because they can do a job, they’ll work for your money. But if you hire people who believe what you believe, they’ll work for you with blood, sweat, and tears.” — Simon Sinek

67. “If you want to improve the organization, you have to improve yourself and the organization gets pulled up with you."

68. “You cannot push anyone up the ladder unless they are willing to climb.” – Andrew Carnegie

69. “The value of a business is a function of how well the financial capital and intellectual capital are managed by human capital. You’d better get the human capital part right.” – Dave Bookbinder

70. “When people go to work, they shouldn’t have to leave their hearts at home.” - Betty Bender

71. “A base salary will only encourage an employee to work at the level that is required of them for them to keep their job,” according to Saint Mary’s University of Minnesota. “If employers want to encourage their employees to perform at a high level and stay with the organisation for longer, they may consider offering their employees the opportunity to earn additional pay, perks and recognition.”

72. “My most valued mentor…taught me that failing didn’t equate to failure, it just meant you had another shot at getting it right.” – Jennifer Hedding, VP and HR Business Partner at Northwestern Mutual

73. “Human resources isn’t a thing we do, it’s the thing that runs our business.” — Steve Wynn

74. “When companies truly invest in human capital to the extent that it invokes a sense of loyalty, they now have a serious competitive advantage.”

75. “Training good employees begins with the way we educate students in elementary school through high school. The way people are programmed in their youth directly affects the kind of employee they will be.”

76. One machine can do the work of fifty ordinary men. No machine can do the work of one extraordinary man. — Elbert Hubbard

77. “Any leader who is serious about supporting their team and any organization that is serious about supporting their workforce need to shape and support a well-being culture.”

78. “We have two ears and one mouth so that we can listen twice as much as we speak.” – Epictetus

79. When people are financially invested, they want a return. When people are emotionally invested, they want to contribute. — Simon Sinek

80. “You can have the best strategy and the best building in the world, but if you don’t have the hearts and minds of the people who work with you, none of it comes to life.” – Renee West

81. “Management is nothing more than motivating other people." - Lee Lacocca

82. “The point isn’t to get people to accept that they have biases, but to get them to see [for themselves] that those biases have negative consequences for others.” — Theresa McHenry, HR Director at Microsoft UK (Source: FT)

83. “If you think it’s expensive to hire a professional, wait until you hire an amateur.” – Red Adair

84. One of the most productive things the HR teams and hiring managers can do is to create a strong culture that helps employees be themselves at work.

85. “Skills are the fundamental unit of human capital. Knowing which skills are most resilient, most persistent, and most likely to remain relevant through technological innovation and economic change is key to successfully upskilling and reskilling workers”

86. “True leadership lies in guiding others to success. In ensuring that everyone is performing at their best, doing the work they are pledged to do, and doing it well.” - Bill Owens

87. “Dating and hiring have a lot in common.” – Scott Wintrip

88. “Your value will be not what you know; it will be what you share”

89. “Individual commitment to a group effort–that is what makes a team work, a company work, a society work, a civilization work.” — Vince Lombardi

90. “The competition to hire the best will increase in the years ahead. Companies that give extra flexibility to their employees will have the edge in this area.” – Bill Gates

91. Treat them well enough, so they don’t want to.” -Sir Richard Branson

92. “Empathy is the starting point for creating a community and taking action. It’s the impetus for creating change.” — Max Carver

93. “Hire for passion and intensity; there is training for everything." - Nolan Bushnell

94. “Low productivity, heightened stress, and reduced creativity are just three of the many negative effects of micromanagement,” according to Track Time 24, a work time management platform.

95. “This extraordinary and overwhelming crisis demands more of our top executives as they help lead our response. The best will advance the interests of others knowing that it makes us all better off”

96. “Healthy workplace cultures don't develop out of luck. A well-being culture in the workplace is the result of an intentional strategy, including the use of culture connection points.”

97. “You need the right people with you, not the best people.” — Jack Ma

98. “If you fulfil the wishes of your employees, the employees will fulfil your visions.” – Amit Kalantri

99. “The more seriously you take your growth, the more seriously your people will take you.”

100. “You cannot mandate productivity; you must provide the tools to let people become their best.” — Steve Jobs

101. “Train people well enough so they can leave. Treat them well enough so they don’t have to.”

102. “Considering only remote work that can be done without a loss of productivity, we find that about 20 to 25 percent of the workforces in advanced economies could work from home between three and five days a week,” according to McKinsey and Co. “This represents four to five times more remote work than before the pandemic and could prompt a large change in the geography of work, as individuals and companies shift out of large cities into suburbs and small cities.”

103. “Do not hire a man who does your work for money, but him who does it for the love of it.” – Henry David Thoreau

104. “If you think hiring professionals is expensive, try hiring amateurs”

105. Train people well enough so they can leave. Treat them well enough, so they don’t want to. — Sir Richard Branson

106. “Human Resources isn’t a thing we do. It’s the thing that runs our business.” – Steve Wynn

107. “An employee’s job is to give his or her best work every day. A manager’s job is to give the employee a good reason to come back to work tomorrow.”

108. “Managing the transition towards deeper investment in human potential in the context of the Fourth Industrial Revolution is one of the most important political, societal, economic and moral challenges we are facing today”

109. “Be Sincere; be brief, be seated” – Franklin D. Roosevelt

110. “Train people well enough so they can leave. Treat them well enough so they don’t want to.” —Sir Richard Branson

111. “The two words 'information' and 'communication' are often used interchangeably, but they signify quite different things. Information is giving out; communication is getting through.” - Sydney J. Harris

112. “As members of the global community, it will be irresponsible of us to sit on the fence, panic, ignore facts, or fail to act. We need to take action now.”

113. “The most important thing in communication is hearing what isn’t said.” — Peter Drucker

114. “As you get bigger, you have to learn to delegate. It’s also an excellent way to get staff involved in a company’s operation”

115. “High expectations are the key to everything.” — Sam Walton

116. “Management is nothing more than motivating other people."

117. “Relationships, not power, drive you forward.” ― Kim Malone Scott

118. HR goes way beyond hiring and firing.

119. “Culture is simply a shared way of doing something with a passion.” — Brian Chesky

120. “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

121. “We have two ears and one mouth so that we can listen twice as much as we speak.” - Epictetus

122. “In order to build a rewarding employee experience, you need to understand what matters most to your people” – Julie Bevacqua

123. “It’s easier to win if you have people seeing things from different perspectives.”

124. “The term human resources is a violation of human rights. for it designates people as possession of a company. Computers are resources, staplers are resources, but people aren't resources, but the soul of all company and society.”

125. “Recruitment IS marketing. If you’re a recruiter nowadays and you don’t see yourself as a marketer, you’re in the wrong profession.” — Matthew Jeffrey

126. “Recruitment IS marketing. If you’re a recruiter nowadays and you don’t see yourself as a marketer, you’re in the wrong profession” - Matthew Jeffrey

127. “Your smile is your logo, your personality is your business card, how you leave others feeling after an experience with you becomes your trademark.” — Jay Danzie

128. “When people go to work, they shouldn’t have to leave their hearts at home.” – Betty Bender

129. “Where people aren’t having fun, they seldom produce good work.” — David Ogilvy

130. “Every good conversation starts with listening.” – Tom Haak

131. “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.” — David Ogilvy

132. “Human Resources isn’t a thing we do. It’s the thing that runs our business.” —Steve Wynn

133. “You need to have extraordinary wisdom to be the forerunner”

134. “The simple act of paying positive attention to people has a great deal to do with productivity.”

135. “You don’t build business, you build people, then people build business.”

136. “To win the marketplace, you must first win the workplace.” - Doug Conant

137. “A good reputation for yourself and your company is an invaluable asset not reflected in the balance sheets”

138. “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.”

139. “Communicate unto the other person that which you would want him to communicate unto you if your positions were reversed.” — Aaron Goldman

140. “Not everyone thinks the way you think, knows the things you know, believes the things you believe, nor acts the way you would act. Remember this and you will go a long way in getting along with people.” — Arthur Forman

141. “The best way to get along with people is to not expect them to be like you.” — Joyce Meyers

142. “Train people well enough so they can leave. Treat them well enough so they don’t want to.” – Sir Richard Branson

143. “A well-being culture is nothing short of an essential element of a successful organization.”

144. “Management is nothing more than motivation other people” - Lee Lacocca

145. “Before you are a leader, success is about growing yourself. When you become a leader, success is about growing others” – Jack Welch.

146. “Making sure (our) people are developing is not a luxury. It is essential for our survival”

147. “A person who feels appreciated will always do more than what is expected.” - Unknown

148. “Diversity strengthens our innovative capacity, unleashes the potential of Siemens’ employees and thereby directly contributes to our business success.” — Janina Kugel, Human Resources Board Member and Chief Diversity Officer at Siemens (Source: Siemens)

149. “It’s important for employees to be employed in the roles where they are most productive. No matter how excellent someone is, if they are tasked with doing things that don’t align with their excellence, they will produce mediocre results at best.”

150. “Hire character. Train skills”. – Peter Schutz

151. “Nothing we do is more important than hiring and developing people. At the end of the day, you bet on people, not strategies.”

152. “A CHECKLIST FOR CHANGE Below are the questions you should review before attempting changes within an organization. When the questions can be answered with a yes, change tends to be easier. Questions that can only be answered with no (or maybe) usually indicate that change will be difficult. YES NO ____ ____ Will this change benefit the followers? ____ ____ Is this change compatible with the purpose of the organization? ____ ____ Is this change specific and clear? ____ ____ Are the top 20 percent (the influencers) in favor of this change? ____ ____ Is it possible to test this change before making a total commitment to it? ____ ____ Are physical, financial, and human resources available to make this change? ____ ____ Is this change reversible? ____ ____ Is this change the next obvious step? ____ ____ Does this change have both short- and long-range benefits? ____ ____ Is the leadership capable of bringing about this change? ____ ____ Is the timing right?”

153. “Clients do not come first. Employees come first. If you take care of your employees, they will take care of the clients.”

154. “You’re not just recruiting employees, but are sowing the seeds of your reputation.”

155. “In order to build a rewarding employee experience, you need to understand what matters most to your people.” – Julie Bevacqua

156. “The conventional definition of management is getting work done through people, but real management is developing people through work.” — Agha Hasan Abedi

157. “We’re improving retention, creating pathways, and diversifying our white-collar workforce and our executive team at the same time,” — Chris Winton, senior vice president of human resources at FedEx Ground.

158. “Wherever there is a human being there is an opportunity for kindness.” — Seneca

159. “Train people well enough so they can leave. Treat them well enough so they don’t have to.” - Sir Richard Branson

160. One machine can do the work of fifty ordinary men. No machine can do the work of one extraordinary man.”

161. Train skill.” -Peter Schutz

162. “There’s no magic formula for great company culture. The key is just to treat your staff how you would like to be treated.” — Richard Branson

163. “It’s not just about having the right people in the company. It’s about having the right people in the right places. You don’t want your whales climbing mountains or your eagles swimming in the ocean so to speak. No matter how excellent someone is, if they are tasked with doing things that don’t align with their excellence, they will produce mediocre results at best.”

164. “If everyone is moving forward together, then success takes care of itself.” — Henry Ford

165. “Before you become a leader, success is all about growing yourself. After you become a leader, success is about growing others."

166. “We can change the culture if we change behaviour.”

167. “Every country risks creating lost generations if it fails to adopt a more holistic approach to nurturing talent that takes into account a proactive approach to managing the transition from education to employment and to ongoing learning and skills acquisition”

168. “Leadership is about giving people a platform for spreading ideas that work.”

169. “If you want something to happen, you have to make people able and you have to make them want to."

170. “If your physical body experienced an excessively high attrition rate for its cells, you would be concerned because the result would be immune related disease or rapid death. Yet some companies accept high attrition rates as if it’s ok. It’s not ok. It’s a symptom that the company has a disease that needs to be cured.”

171. “Don’t hire anyone you wouldn’t want to run into in the hallway at three in the morning.” – Tina Fey

172. “Communication leads to community, that is, to understanding, intimacy and mutual valuing” - Rollo May

173. “I think that our fundamental belief is that for us growth is a way of life and we have to grow at all time”

174. “Leaders who don’t listen will eventually be surrounded by people who have nothing to say.” — Andy Stanley

175. “Hire character. Train skill.” – Peter Schutz

176. The secret to motivating your employees? Find out what they want and show them how to get it.

177. “Human resource management begins in elementary school. You can’t expect to hire a 21 year old or a 40 year old or a 60 year old and magically with good training, replace the programming they received in K-12. This is why businesses should invest in early education.”

178. “Employee well-being needs to be held in high regard, like customer service and productivity.”

179. To handle yourself, use your head; to handle others, use your heart.

180. “The wealth of time is the only wealth that is more valuable than human resources” – Sunday Adelaja

181. “I do deserve a vacation. Sometimes Batman’s gotta take off his cape.” — Kevin Malone

182. “One machine can do the work of fifty ordinary men. No machine can do the work of one extraordinary man.” - Elbert Hubbard

183. “A hallmark of a healthy creative culture is that its people feel free to share ideas, opinions, and criticisms.”

184. “The single biggest problem in communication is the illusion that it has taken place.” — George Bernard Shaw

185. “I speak to everyone in the same way, whether he is the garbage man or the president of the university.” - Albert Einstein

186. You can’t buy good attitude.

187. “If you believe people are fundamentally good and worthy of trust, you must be honest and transparent with them. That includes telling them when they are lagging behind in their performance. But having a mission-driven, purposeful workplace also requires that you approach people with sensitivity.” — Laszlo Bock

188. “If you want creative workers, give them enough time to play.”

189. “Managers live and die by their recruitment.” — Paul Scholes

190. “I am about to do something very bold in this job that I’ve never done before. Try.” — Jim Halpert

191. “Company cultures are like country cultures. Never try to change one. Try, instead, to work with what you’ve got.” —Peter Drucker

192. “It’s no good when a company progresses more slowly than its customers”

193. “Our secret weapon for building the best culture is open and honest feedback.”

194. “The people that you work with are, when you get down to it, your very best friends.” – Michael Scott

195. “It takes 20 years to build a reputation and five minutes to ruin it. If you think about that, you’ll do things differently”

196. “If you’re good to your staff when things are going well, they’ll rally when times go bad.”

197. “If you think you are leading and turn around to see no one following, then you are just taking a walk.” — Benjamin Hooks

198. “The brain is a wonderful organ; it starts working the moment you get up in the morning and does not stop until you get into the office.” — Robert Frost

199. “Do not hire a man who does your work for money, but him who does it for the love of it.” — Henry David Thoreau

200. Good leadership requires you to surround yourself with people of diverse perspectives who can disagree with you without fear of retaliation.

201. “No matter how brilliant your mind or strategy, if you’re playing a solo game, you’ll always lose out to a team.

202. “Fear of failure must never be a reason not to try something”

203. “To increase the likelihood of creating a well workplace culture, everyone needs to be rowing in the same direction.”

204. “The secret to a successful hire is this: look for the people who want to change the world”

205. “Leaders don’t create followers, they create more leaders.” — Tom Peters

206. “To effectively communicate, we must realize that we are all different in the way we perceive the world and use this understanding as a guide to our communication with others.” — Tony Robbins

207. “In most cases, being a good boss means hiring talented people and then getting out of their way.” – Tina Fey

208. “For effective communication think about how is your speech is perceived than in what you are actually saying.” - Byron Rivers

209. “Be Sincere; be brief, be seated” - Franklin D. Roosevelt

210. “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

211. “Alone we can do so little, together we can do so much.” — Helen Keller

212. “Culture is what motivates and retains talented employees”

213. “Make sure everybody in the company has great opportunities, has a meaningful impact and is contributing to the good of the society.”

214. “When people are financially invested, they want a return. When people are emotionally invested, they want to contribute."

215. “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.” – Steve Jobs

216. “As a leader, it is important to not just see your own success but focus on the success of others”

217. “Call it skill resources, call it expertise resources,

218. “Effective communication is 20% what you know and 80% how you feel about what you know.” — Jim Rohn

219. “Communication is a skill that you can learn. It's like riding a bicycle or typing. If you're willing to work at it, you can rapidly improve the quality of every part of your life.” - Brian Tracy

220. “It’s a wild thing, that people have the ability to help each other by just relating to one another.” — Natasha Lyonne

221. Employees are your most valuable assets.

222. “I believe the real difference between success and failure in a corporation can be very often traced to the question of how well the organization brings out the great energies and talents of its people.” — Thomas J. Watson, Jr.

223. “I never set out to be CEO. I always set out to be a good team member, a good colleague”

224. “While it may be tempting to de-risk recruitment by prioritising academic achievement and work experience, hiring for passion can help populate your company with the kind of people who will live and breathe the business,” according to Be The Business, a business improvement consulting company.

225. “Human beings have an innate inner drive to be autonomous, self-determined and connected to one another. And, when that drive is liberated, people achieve more and live richer lives.” — Daniel Pink

226. “Nothing we do is more important than hiring people. At the end of the day, you bet on people, not strategies.”

227. “The competition to hire the best will increase in the years ahead. Companies that give extra flexibility to their employees will have the edge in this area”

228. “Human resource management begins in elementary school. You can’t expect to hire a 21 year old or a 40 year old or a 60 year old and magically with good training, replace the programming they received in K-12.”

229. “Hire for passion and intensity; there is training for everything.” – Nolan Bushnell

230. “To be competitive, you need to have a culture that people want to come into and stay a part of”

231. “Leaders will more readily support the goals if they understand the big picture and the benefits of a more diverse and inclusive organization.” — Chris Walker, Chief Human Resources Officer & Corporate Services.

232. “I think we all have empathy. We may not have enough courage to display it.” Maya Angelou

233. “You cannot be a leader, and ask other people to follow you, unless you know how to follow, too.” — Sam Rayburn

234. “The applicant is the centre of our universe."

235. “You can have the best strategy and the best building in the world, but if you don’t have the hearts and minds of the people who work with you, none of it comes to life.”

236. “Ultimately, delivering strategy is about hiring the right people and motivating them to deliver results.”

237. “The more seriously you take your growth, the more seriously your people will take you.” – John Maxwell

238. “I’ve learned that people will forget what you said, people will forget what you did, but people will never forget how you made them feel.” — Maya Angelou

239. “Getting along well with other people is still the world’s most needed skill. With it…there is no limit to what a person can do. We need people, we need the cooperation of others. There is very little we can do alone.” — Earl Nightingale

240. “If you're changing the world, you're working on important things. You're excited to get up in the morning."

241. “If everyone is moving forward together, then success takes care of itself.” – Henry Ford

242. Being a good leader means having the compassion to listen to the needs and feelings of others.

243. “The strength of the team is each individual member. The strength of each member is the team." – Phil Jackson

244. “In order to minimize the risk of getting into trouble with human resources, I’ll go ahead and wish you a happy February 14th.”

245. “It’s really simple. People what to be where they feel valued and where they have the full capacity to provide value. When people have that, they stay. When they don’t, they leave. Companies that provide this to employees experience retention. Companies that don’t, experience attrition.”

246. “I will always choose a lazy person to do a hard job, because a lazy person will find an easy way to do it.” – Bill Gates

247. “Aligning available human resources to corporate strategy and corporate goals seems to be ideal since human resources can be trained to adapt to the dynamic corporate environment and strategic corporate goals owing to vagaries in the external corporate environment and economy.”

248. “If you hire people just because they can do a job, they’ll work for your money. But if you hire people who believe what you believe, they’ll work for you with blood, sweat, and tears.”

249. “The competition to hire the best will increase in the years ahead. Companies that give extra flexibility to their employees will have the edge in this area.” - Bill Gates

250. “I’m not the smartest fellow in the world, but I can sure pick smart colleagues.” — Franklin D. Roosevelt

251. “The closest to perfection a person ever comes is when he fills out a job application form.​” — Stanley J. Randall

252. Recruitment is key to success.

253. “If you’re good to your staff when things are going well, they’ll rally when times go bad.” - Mary Kay Ash

254. “The group’s benefit is more important than [a single employee] personal benefit”

255. “If you are lucky enough to be someone’s employer, then you have a moral obligation to make sure people do look forward to coming to work in the morning.”

256. Good employees make mistakes and good leaders allow them to.

257. “A sense of humor is part of the art of leadership, of getting along with people, of getting things done.” — Dwight D Eisenhower

258. “Employees engage with employers and brands when they’re treated as humans.”

259. “We recruit for attitude and train for skill”

260. “Whether you are the CEO or a frontline manager, you play the same leadership role in creating a well-being culture on your team.”

261. Motivation can come from the inside or outside.

262. “A company is stronger if it is bound by love rather than fear”

263. “We have two ears and one mouth so that we can listen twice as much as we speak.” — Epictetus

264. “Your ability to communicate is an important tool in the pursuit of your goals, whether it is with your family, your co-workers or your clients and customers.” – Lee Brown

265. “Employee values should align with company values.”

266. “Reward the behavior you want your people to demonstrate.”

267. “It takes less time to do a thing right, than it does to explain why you did it wrong.” — Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

268. “Nothing we do is more important than hiring people. At the end of the day, you bet on people, not strategies.” — Lawrence Bossidy

269. “Some people today are wandering generalities instead of meaningful specifics because they have failed to discover and mine the wealth of potentials in them.”

270. “If you want creative workers, give them enough time to play.” – John Cleese

271. “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

272. “We’re all in this together. And we can only succeed together”

273. “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 strategies.” – Lawrence Bossidy.

274. “Good employees make mistakes and good leaders allow them to” - Unknown

275. “Good employees make mistakes and good leaders allow them to.”

276. “Many organizations, oblivious that good work culture has the propensity to propel the organization to the next well, turn deaf ears and blind eyes to the cold culture that has inevitably developed within the structure due to lack of supervision and timely strategic advice and training. The higher management may view the work culture that has developed within the company as ancillary to business progress and lunge it across to the HR department to magically iron the creases of an involuntarily besmirched work culture or blunt work culture.”

277. “Before you are a leader, success is about growing yourself. When you become a leader, success is about growing others.” — Jack Welch

278. “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

279. “Without the right succession planning put to play in human resources, we build for the future without a future.” – Mmanti Umoh

280. “There should be three types of Issues Lists in your organization: 1. The Issues List in your Vision/Traction Organizer (V/TO). These are all company issues that can be shelved beyond 90 days. These issues are tackled in future quarterly meetings. The issues that are not a big enough priority for this week or this quarter must be stored somewhere so that you don’t lose sight of them. The V/TO Issues List is the place for that. This list will include issues as diverse as new product ideas, key employee issues, technology needs, office relocation, capital needs, and the need for HR policies.”

281. “Communication – the human connection – is the key to personal and career success.” — Paul J. Meyer

282. “Nothing surprises me. I work in HR.” – unknown

283. “Companies with high talent density have a permeable competitive advantage that makes them very difficult to beat.”

284. “Human resources are the most valuable assets the world has. They are all needed desperately.” — Eleanor Roosevelt Quote

285. “When people are your greatest asset, like at Deloitte, investments in human capital should be considered in the same way other companies might invest significantly in product R&D.” — Cathy Engelbert

286. A lot of people have gone further than they thought they could because someone else thought they could. — Zig Ziglar

287. “I wish all professionals knew that vulnerability in the workplace could be a powerful tool, not just a sign of weakness. It’s important to create a culture where people feel safe and comfortable being vulnerable. It leads to more open communication, trust and connection between colleagues,” says Emma Williams, a certified strengths and career coach and the Chief Research Officer at HIGH5. “We have been conditioned to believe showing vulnerability, especially at work, is a sign of weakness. However, what we now know is that expressing vulnerability, especially when you are leading others, is a significant sign of strength and courage,” adds Barbie Winterbottom, HR consultant and CEO of The Business of HR.

288. Employees are not disposable commodities.

289. “Imagine how work would feel for you if, instead of people coming to you with anxiety and desperation, they shared their gratitude for making their lives easier and for being there when they most needed support.” — Laszlo Bock

290. “Treat employees like they make a difference and they will.”

291. “Many organizations, oblivious that good work culture has the propensity to propel the organization to the next level, turn deaf ears and blind eyes to the cold culture that has inevitably developed within the structure due to lack of supervision and timely strategic advice and training. The higher management may view the work culture that has developed within the company as ancillary to business progress and lunge it across to the HR department to magically iron the creases of an involuntarily besmirched work culture or blunt work culture.”

292. “You cannot push anyone up the ladder unless they are willing to climb” – Andrew Carnegie.

293. “The way you ask for criticism and react when you get it goes a long way toward building trust—or destroying it.” ― Kim Malone Scott

294. “Oh, you hate your job? Why didn’t you say so? There’s a support group for that. It’s called EVERYBODY, and they meet at the bar.” – Drew Carey

295. “Innovation distinguishes between a leader and a follower.” — Steve Jobs

296. “The company culture is about being human, being good to other people.” — Logan Green

297. “Hiring people is an art, not a science, and resumes can’t tell you whether someone will fit into a company’s culture.” – Howard Schulz

298. “Ensure your documentation is short and sharp and make much more use of people-to-people communication.” - Bentley and Borman

299. “The most important thing in communication is hearing what isn't being said. The art of reading between the lines is a life long quest of the wise.” - Shannon L. Alder

300. “Recently, I was asked if I was going to fire an employee who made a mistake that cost the company $600,000. No, I spent $600,000 training him. Why would I want to fire somebody with his experience?” – Thomas John Watson Sr.

301. “The quality of a leader is reflected in the standards they set for themselves.” — Ray Kroc

302. “A big part of our people-first culture is treating people with respect and transparency.”

303. “Whenever I’m about to do something, I think, ‘Would an idiot do that?’ And if they would, I do not do that thing.” — Dwight Schrute

304. “It’s about getting the best people, retaining them, nurturing a creative environment & helping to find a way to innovate.” — Marissa Mayer

305. “Outstanding leaders go out of their way to boost the self-esteem of their personnel. If people believe in themselves, it’s amazing what they can accomplish”

306. “You’re not just recruiting employees, but are sowing the seeds of your reputation.” – Unknown

307. “Talent wins games, but teamwork and intelligence win championships.” – Michael Jordan

308. “People may hear your words, but they feel your attitude.” — John C. Maxwell

309. “When we have exhausted every human resource available to us and all hope appears to be lost, God has a thousand ways to deliver us.” Unknown

310. “Technology can stunt the imagination. And human imagination is a resource with limitless potential.”

311. “Train people well enough so they can leave. Treat them well enough, so they don’t want to.” – Sir Richard Branson.

312. “Hire character. Train skill.” — Peter Schultz

313. 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. — David Ogilvy

314. “Human Resources isn’t a thing we do. It’s the thing that runs our business."

315. “We never listen when we are eager to speak” - Francois de la Rochefoucauld

316. “The value of a business is a function of how well the financial capital and intellectual capital are managed by human capital. You'd better get the human capital part right.” - Dave Bookbinder

317. “The human has to come first, use technology to create a better bond with the human.” — Katrina Collier

318. “Any idiot can point out a problem… A leader is willing to do something about it! Leaders solve problems!” – Tony Robbins

319. “When people go to work, they shouldn’t have to leave their hearts at home.” —Betty Bender

320. “To handle yourself, use your head; to handle others, use your heart.” – Eleanor Roosevelt

321. “When a vision is inspirational, such as putting a man on the moon, it can unify a team toward a common goal.”

322. “Bad companies are destroyed by crisis, good companies survive them, great companies are improved by them”

323. “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

324. “The more seriously you take your growth, the more seriously your people will take you.” - John Maxwell

325. “As our community focuses on public health needs during the COVID-19 outbreak, it’s important that we also rally together to address the unmet economic needs developing around us.”

326. “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

327. “Every business, every citizen, every residential area must be a fortress to prevent the epidemic”

328. “When people go to work, they shouldn’t have to leave their hearts at home.” -Betty Bender

329. “Recruiting talent is no different than any other challenge a startup faces. It’s all about selling.” — Vivek Wadhwa

330. “Part of company culture is path-dependent – it’s the lessons you learn along the way.” — Jeff Bezos

331. “In order to build a rewarding employee experience, you need to understand what matters most to your people.” - Julie Bevacqua

332. “A leader is someone that creates infectious enthusiasm.”

333. “Good leaders organize and align people around what the team needs to do. Great leaders motivate and inspire people with why they are doing it. That’s the key to achieving something truly transformational”

334. “Communication works for those who work at it.” — John Powell

335. “Train people well enough so they can leave. Treat them well enough so they don’t want to.” — Richard Branson

336. “strategic human resource management adopts a holistic approach, rather than an atomistic- individualist approach.

337. “Hire for passion and intensity; there is training for everything."

338. “Human beings are complicated, thorny, messy things. But those unquantifiable qualities are also what make magic happen.” ― Laszlo Bock

339. “To effectively communicate, we must realize that we are all different in the way we perceive the world and use this understanding as a guide to our communication with others.” - Tony Robbins

340. You cannot mandate productivity; you must provide the tools to let people become their best. — Steve Jobs

341. “Children imitate their parents, employees their managers.” – Amit Kalantri

342. “When people are financially invested, they want a return. When people are emotionally invested, they want to contribute.” – Simon Sinek.

343. “Teamwork begins by building trust. And the only way to do that is to overcome our need for invulnerability." – Patrick Lencioni

344. “Communication - the human connection - is the key to personal and career success.” - Paul J. Meyer

345. “If you have nothing to say, say nothing” - Mark Twain

346. “Great vision without great people is irrelevant.” — Jim Collins

347. “Time spent on hiring is time well spent”

348. Because speech is silver, but silence is golden.

349. “A team in the business world will tend to perform at the level of the worst individual team member”

350. 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, Sr.

351. “Human resources isn’t a thing we do. It’s the thing that runs our business.” - Steve Wynn

352. “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.” – Ken Robinson

353. “Leadership is not about a title or a designation. It’s about impact, influence and inspiration. Impact involves getting results, influence is about spreading the passion you have for your work, and you have to inspire team-mates and customers.” — Robin S. Sharma

354. “A place where people are accepted for who they are, is where they think better, feel better, work better, and above all live better.”

355. “We recruit for attitude and train for skill,”

356. “If you want to lift yourself up, lift up someone else.” – Booker T. Washington

357. “Company culture is the continuous pursuit of building the best, most talented, and happiest team we possibly can.”

358. “The conventional definition of management is getting work done through people, but real management is developing people through work.”

359. “I look for two things when I hire a new employee: ambition and humility. Without a proven track record of initiative and ambition, it’s likely the person becomes a drain rather than a contributor to the company — even the really smart, talented ones.” — Justin McLeod

360. “You cannot push anyone up the ladder unless he is willing to climb.” — Andrew Carnegie

361. When people are emotionally invested, they want to contribute.” -Simon Sinek

362. “Understanding your employee’s perspective can go a long way towards increasing productivity and happiness.”

363. “Success is best when it's shared."

364. “Employee engagement is about getting the best people, retaining them, nurturing a creative environment and helping to find a way to innovate."

365. “Customers will never love a company until the employees love it first.” — Simon Sinek

366. “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.” — Ken Robinson

367. “The single biggest problem in communication is the illusion that it has taken place.” - George Bernard Shaw

368. “We think we listen, but very rarely do we listen with real understanding, true empathy. Yet listening, of this very special kind, is one of the most potent forces for change that I know.” — Carl Rogers

369. “When people are financially invested, they want a return. When people are emotionally invested, they want to contribute.” —Simon Sinek

370. Employees are a company’s greatest asset – they’re your competitive advantage. You want to attract and retain the best; provide them with encouragement, stimulus, and make them feel that they are an integral part of the company’s mission.

371. “Diversity and inclusion cannot simply be delegated to one individual. That is a cop-out. It should be on the CEO’s plate as a priority and central to the HR agenda, not something that ebbs and flows with the quality of a diversity and inclusion leader.”

372. “Leadership is about giving people a platform for spreading ideas that work.” - Seth Godin

373. “The most valuable businesses of the coming decades will be built by entrepreneurs who seek to empower people rather than make them obsolete”

374. “The robust investment in workforce health and wellbeing appears to be one of the practices pursued by high-performing, well-managed companies,” according to Forbes. “The positive financial results for a company support the need for continuing to cultivate a wellbeing culture, and strategy that is embedded into the ethos of the organisation.”

375. “The body may be bought with a paycheck but the heart is earned with a purpose.” — Angela Lynne Craig

376. “Let the beauty of what you love be what you do.” — Rumi

377. “People and their behaviours are what deliver results to your organisation,” said Mark Hortsman, co-founder of Manager Tools, a management consulting firm. “Not systems, not processes, not computers, not machines.”

378. “The most sacred thing I do is care and provide for my workers.” – Michael Scott

379. “A person who feels appreciated will always do more than what is expected.” – Unknown

380. No person will do a great business who wants to do it all himself or get all the credit. — Andrew Carnegie

381. “We recognize that our success as a company and as an industry relies on developing, creating and growing an inclusive culture and diverse workforce”

382. “There is little success where there is little laughter."

383. “The basic feature in the present-day- strategic human resource consultancy in devising the right processes with HR digital practices, for an organization routing organizational performance towards accomplishing organizational goals, both - long-term goals and short-term goals, aligned with the organization’s vision and mission.”

384. “The greater good is achieved by not only telling people what they need to know, but also filling them with a sense of empathy and love.” — Abigail Disney

385. “Your ability to communicate is an important tool in the pursuit of your goals, whether it is with your family, your co-workers or your clients and customers.” - Lee Brown

386. “If you are paying someone to motivate you (seriously), you should rather pay to a psychiatrist.”

387. “I will always choose a lazy person to do a hard job, because a lazy person will find an easy way to do it.” — Bill Gates

388. “Employees engage with employers and brands when they’re treated as humans.” – Meghan Biro

389. “Diversity, Equity and Inclusion should be a top priority of every Chief People Officer — not as a matter of charity, but of corporate preservation.”

390. “Empathy is about standing in someone else’s shoes, feeling with his or her heart, seeing with his or her eyes. Not only is empathy hard to outsource and automate, but it makes the world a better place.” — Daniel H. Pink

391. “If you’re good to your staff when things are going well, they’ll rally when times go bad.” – Mary Kay Ash

392. “People are an Organisation's most valuable asset and the key to its success."

393. “Believe you can and you’re halfway there.” — Theodore Roosevelt

394. Allow people to be themselves. People want to be GREAT, GREAT companies let them be GREAT. — Arte Nathan

395. “If you have nothing to say, say nothing” – Mark Twain

396. “Leadership is about making others better as a result of your presence and making sure that impact lasts in your absence”

397. “You don’t build a business – you build people – and then people build your business.” — Zig Ziglar

398. “Empathy is simply listening, holding space, withholding judgment, emotionally connecting, and communicating that incredibly healing message of you’re not alone.” — Brene Brown

399. “You cannot push anyone up the ladder unless he is willing to climb.”

400. “The hardest challenge being an HR is that sometimes you have to be the LAWYER, the JUDGE, and the HANGMAN.” – Hassan Choughari

401. “Effective communication is 20% what you know and 80% how you feel about what you know.” - Jim Rohn

402. “Being a great place to work is the difference between being a good company and a great company.”

403. “You can’t teach employees to smile. They have to smile before you hire them.” – Arte Nathan

404. “If there is an unhealthy subculture in your workplace, you don't have to accept it as permanent.”

405. “When every team is on a well-being journey, the entire organization will see gains.”

406. “True leadership isn’t about having an idea. It’s about having an idea and recruiting other people to execute on this vision.” — Leila Janah

407. “Development can help great people be even better - but if I had a dollar to spend, I'd spend 70 cents getting the right person in the door."

408. “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."

409. “Executives and HR managers know coaching is the most potent tool for inducing positive personal change, ensuring better than average odds of success and making the change stick for the long term.” The Ivy Business Journal

410. “If you haven’t got the best talent you’re not going to be the best, if you’re not representing properly the available pool of talent then you’re missing an opportunity.” — Alex Wilmot-Sitwell, EMEA President at Bank of America Merrill Lynch (Sources: Jazz HR Notes and Financial Times)

411. “Corporate culture is the only sustainable competitive advantage that is completely within the control of the entrepreneur.” — David Cumming

412. “To handle yourself, use your head; to handle others, use your heart” – Eleanor Roosevelt.

413. “The value of a business is a function of how well the financial capital and intellectual capital are managed by human capital. You'd better get the human capital part right.”

414. “The most important thing in communication is hearing what isn’t said.” - Peter Drucker

415. “Compassion is empathy plus action.” ― Kim Malone Scott

416. “True motivation comes from achievement, personal development, job satisfaction, and recognition.” - Frederick Herzberg

417. “Talent wins games, but teamwork and intelligence win champions”

418. Appreciate the real value of human resources.

419. Employees are integral to an organisation’s success.

420. Motivation is all about return on emotional investment into a company.

421. “Ultimately, what any company does when it is successful is merely a lagging indicator of its existing culture.” — Satya Nadella

422. “Any idiot can point out a problem... A leader is willing to do something about it! Leaders solve problems!” - Tony Robbins

423. “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.”

424. “The most important thing that we entrepreneurs have is our human capital. If we exhaust it, we make bad decisions.” — Arianna Huffington

425. “Sometimes all a person wants is an empathetic ear; all he or she needs is to talk it out. Just offering a listening ear and an understanding heart for his or her suffering can be a big comfort.” ― Roy T. Bennett

426. “In terms of the utilization of resources, the human resource is the most important resource.”

427. “What you get out of your leadership is based on what you ask for—both from yourself and from others. Set your standards high. The more you want out of your leadership, the more you have to be willing to ask for (and work for!) along the way.”

428. “Every time I see high-trust cultures, I see a lessening of adversarialism.” — Stephen Covey

429. “Every good conversation starts with listening.” - Tom Haak

430. “Leadership and learning are indispensable to each other.” — John Fitzgerald Kennedy

431. “Businesses are best equipped to educate young people, not governments.”

432. “It’s hard to deliver high-quality results without adequate rest of both mind and body.”

433. “Resilience is, of course, necessary for a warrior. But a lack of empathy isn’t.” — Phil Klay

434. “One machine can do the work of fifty ordinary men. No machine can do the work of one extraordinary man.” – Elbert Hubbard

435. “I’m HR. To save time let’s just assume I’m never wrong.” – unknown

436. “Great companies don’t just have one founding moment. They have many founding moments.”

437. “Like people, when companies work to foster a culture of collaboration, communication becomes second nature.” — Doug McMillon

438. “The world needs to be resolute in fighting an all-out global war against the COVID-19 outbreak”

439. A company cannot grow without their leaders growing first.

440. “Businesses often forget about the culture, and ultimately, they suffer for it because you can’t deliver good service from unhappy employees.”

441. “Everyone talks about building a relationship with your customers. I think you build one with your employees first."

442. “In most cases, being a good boss means hiring talented people and then getting out of their way.” - Tina Fey

443. “A successful team beats with one heart”

444. “As you grow older, you will discover that you have two hands– one for helping yourself, the other for helping others.” — Audrey Hepburn

445. “Brevity is the soul of wit.” - William Shakespeare

446. “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 to fire somebody with his experience?” —Thomas John Watson Sr.

447. “A diamond is merely a lump of coal that did well under pressure.” — Henry Kissenger

448. “Getting along with others is the essence of getting ahead, success being linked with cooperation.” — William Feather

449. “The first responsibility of a leader is to define reality. The last is to say thank you. In between, the leader is a servant.” - Max de Pree

450. “A person who feels appreciated will always do more than what is expected.”

451. “The value of a business is a function of how well the financial capital and the intellectual capital are managed by the human capital. You'd better get the human capital part right.” - Dave Bookbinder

452. “We will have a more prosperous nation when businesses are more invested in schools than government.”

453. “The person passionate about what he or she is doing will outwork and outlast the guy motivated solely by making money”

454. “Every good conversation starts with listening.”

455. “We need to recognize the talents, the strength of teamwork, and create opportunities for everyone to grow. Since then they can achieve success for themselves and for customers.”

456. “Some people like health care workers will be doing heroic work and we need to support them. We need to stay calm even though this is an unprecedented situation”

457. “CEOs would like to be able to use their chief human resource officers the way they use their CFOs—as sounding boards and trusted partners—and rely on their skills in linking people and numbers to diagnose weaknesses and strengths in the organization, find the right fit between employees and jobs, and advise on the talent implications of the company’s strategy.

458. “We rise by lifting others.” — Robert Ingersoll

459. “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 John Watson Sr.

460. “Never hire someone who knows less than you do about what he’s hired to do.” – Malcolm Forbes

461. “Culture does not change because we desire to change it. Culture changes when the organization is transformed; the culture reflects the realities of people working together every day.”

462. “Ensuring your employees have the right tools to do their job well can benefit their productivity, but perhaps even more importantly, it may affect their job satisfaction,” according to Forbes.

463. “Time spent on hiring is time well spent.” – Robert Half

464. “The wealth of time is the only wealth that is more valuable than human resources” - Sunday Adelaja

465. “No man can be successful unless he first loves his work."

466. “Allow people to be themselves. People want to be great, great companies let them be great."

467. “To win the marketplace, you must first win the workplace.”