Human Resources is the foundation of any successful corporation, influencing company culture and promoting employee progress. In this blog, we’ve selected inspiring and informative HR quotes from industry luminaries to help professionals stay motivated and improve their personnel management strategy. Whether you work in recruiting, employee engagement, or leadership, these quotes will help you understand the ever-changing world of human resources.
Nothing we do is more important than hiring people. At the end of the day, you bet on people, not strategies.
Lawrence Bossidy
Alone we can do so little, together we can do so much.
Helen Keller
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
Human Resources isn’t a thing we do. It’s the thing that runs our business.
Steve Wynn, CEO of Wynn Resorts Limited
Every good conversation starts with listening.
Tom Haak
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, Global head of sourcing and employment brand at SAP
In order to build a rewarding employee experience, you need to understand what matters most to your people.
Julie Bevacqua
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, Founder of Microsoft Corporation
Employees engage with employers and brands when they’re treated as humans.
Meghan Biro
Treat your employees right, so they won’t use your Internet to search for a new job
Mark Zuckerberg
Believe in yourself and all that you are. Know that there is something inside you that is greater than any obstacle.
Christian D. Larson
When people go to work, they shouldn’t have to leave their hearts at home.
Betty Bender
Train people well enough so they can leave, treat them well enough so they don’t want to.” – Richard Branson, Founder of Virgin Group“You cannot push anyone up the ladder unless he is willing to climb.
Andrew Carnegie“
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.
James Sinegal, Co-founder and former CEO of Costco Wholesale Corporation
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
To win the marketplace, you must first win the workplace.
Doug Conant
We just want to have great people working for us.
Sergey Brin
True motivation comes from achievement, personal development, job satisfaction, and recognition.
Frederick Herzberg
The secret of my success is that we have gone to exceptional lengths to hire the best people in the world.
Steve Jobs, Chairman, CEO and co-founder of Apple
Without the right succession planning put to play in human resources, we build for the future without a future.
Mmanti Umoh
If you want creative workers, give them enough time to play.
John Cleese
Make your team feel respected, empowered and genuinely excited about the company’s mission.
Tim Westergren
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.
Acquiring the right talent is the most important key to growth. Hiring was – and still is – the most important thing we do.
Marc Bennioff, Founder, Chairman and co-CEO of Salesforce
The hardest challenge being an HR is that sometimes you have to be the LAWYER, the JUDGE, and the HANGMAN.
Hassan Choughari
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., Former chairman and CEO of IBM
In most cases, being a good boss means hiring talented people and then getting out of their way.
Tina Fey
The secret to successful hiring is this: look for the people who want to change the world.
Marc Benioff
The conventional definition of management is getting work done through people, but real management is developing people through work.
Agha Hasan Abedi
Two of the biggest challenges in technical hiring are identifying people who are smart but don’t get things done and people who get things done but aren’t smart. A company in a competitive industry needs to avoid hiring both classes of people.
Joel Spolsky, Stack Overflow
If you want creative workers, give them enough time to play.
John Cleese
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
Talent wins games, but teamwork and intelligence win championships.
Michael Jordan, American former professional basketball player
A person who feels appreciated will always do more than what is expected.
Unknown
Make your team feel respected, empowered and genuinely excited about the company’s mission.
Tim Westergren, Pandora
We are never in lack of money. We lack people with dreams, who can die for those dreams.
Jack Ma, Alibaba
If you’re good to your staff when things are going well, they’ll rally when times go bad.
Mary Kay Ash
Individual commitment to a group effort–that is what makes a team work, a company work, a society work, a civilization work.
Vince Lombardi
The wealth of time is the only wealth that is more valuable than human resources
Sunday Adelaja
Responsible people thrive on freedom and are worthy of freedom. Our model is to increase employee freedom as we grow rather than limit it.
Reed Hastings, Netflix
The more seriously you take your growth, the more seriously your people will take you.
John Maxwell
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
We recruit for attitude and train for skill
Atul Gawande
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
If you think hiring professionals is expensive, try hiring amateurs.
Anonymous
Time spent on hiring, is time well spent.
Robert Half
Leadership and learning are indispensable to each other.
John Fitzgerald Kennedy
Leaders don’t create followers, they create more leaders.
Tom Peters
If everyone is moving forward together, then success takes care of itself.
Henry Ford
Children imitate their parents, employees their managers.
Amit Kalantri
Politeness is the poison of collaboration.
Edwin Land
Great vision without great people is irrelevant.
Jim Collins
If you pay peanuts, you get monkeys.
Chinese Proverb
“You need to have a collaborative hiring process.”
Steve Jobs, Apple
The body may be bought with a paycheck but the heart is earned with a purpose.
Angela Lynne Craig
If you fulfill the wishes of your employees, the employees will fulfill your visions.
Amit Kalantri
If you want to lift yourself up, lift up someone else.
Booker T. Washington
You can’t teach employees to smile. They have to smile before you hire them.
Arte Nathan
Dating and hiring have a lot in common.
Scott Wintrip
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
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, Luxor and Excalibur Hotel
If you think it’s expensive to hire a professional, wait until you hire an amateur.
Red Adair
Allow people to be themselves. People want to be GREAT, great companies let them be GREAT.
Arte Nathan
Do not hire a man who does your work for money, but him who does it for the love of it.
Henry David Thoreau
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
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
I choose a lazy person to do a hard job. Because a lazy person will find an easy way to do it.
Bill Gates
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