51 Best HR Quotes for all aspiring Leaders

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 

Human Resource isn’t a thing we do; it’s the thing that runs our business.

  Steve Wynne

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

Sir Richard Branson

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

Hire character. Train skill.

Peter Schutz 

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

Simon Sinek

When people go to work, they shouldn’t have to leave their hearts at home.

Betty Bender

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

In most cases, being a good boss means hiring talented people and then getting out of their way.  

Tina Fey

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

Steve Jobs

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.

Without the right succession planning put to play in human resources, we build for the future without a future.

Mmanti Umoh

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

Elbert Hubbard 

HR should be every company’s killer app. What could possibly be more important than who gets hired?

Jack welch

Every problem is a gift—without problems we would not grow.

Tony Robbins

The hardest challenge being an HR is that sometimes you have to be the LAWYER, the JUDGE, and the HANGMAN.

Hassan  Choughari

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

Julie Bevacqua 

Management is nothing more than motivating other people.

Lee Iacocca

Far and away the best prize that life offers is the chance to work hard at work worth doing.

Theodore Roosevelt

The wealth of time is the only wealth that is more valuable than human resources.  

Sunday Adelaja

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

Eleanor Roosevelt 

Treat your employees right, so they won’t use your internet to search for a new job.

Mark Zuckerberg

The way to get started is to quit talking and begin doing.

Walt Disney

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

When people go to work, they shouldn’t have to leave their hearts at home.  

Betty Bender

People and their behaviors are what deliver results to your organization. Not systems, not processes, not computers, not machines.

Mark Hortsman

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 

You cannot push anyone up the ladder unless they are willing to climb.  

Andrew Carnegie

To win in the marketplace, you must first win the workplace.

Doug Conant

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

Inventories can be managed but people must be led.

 Ross Perot

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

John Maxwell 

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

Rutvik Oza

Children imitate their parents, employees their managers.

Amit Kalantri

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

Meghan Biro

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

Talent wins games, but teamwork and intelligence win championships.

Michael Jordan

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

Julie Bevacqua

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

John Cleese

No one can whistle a symphony. It takes a whole orchestra to play it.

H.E. Luccock

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

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

Unknown

Time spent on hiring is time well spent.

Robert Half

Allow people to be themselves. People want to be GREAT, great companies let them be GREAT.

Arte Nathan

A lot of people have gone further than they thought they could because someone else thought they could.

Zig Ziglar

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

Seth Godin

The strength of the team is each individual member. The strength of each member is the team.

Phil Jackson

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

Mary Kay Ash

Never hire someone who knows less than you do about what he’s hired to do.

Malcolm Forbes

Do not hire a man who does your work for money, but him who does it for the love of it.

Henry David Thoreau