“Insight and drive are all you need. Everything else can be hired.”
Jay Samit (1961) American businessman
Source: Disrupt You! (2015), p.109
Source: Tom Peters Daily, Weekly Quote, 01 March 2021
“Insight and drive are all you need. Everything else can be hired.”
Jay Samit (1961) American businessman
Source: Disrupt You! (2015), p.109
“Hire people who can deal with crisis and uncertainty”
Nigel Cumberland (1967) British author and leadership coach
Source: Your Job-Hunt Ltd – Advice from an Award-Winning Asian Headhunter (2003), Successful Recruitment in a Week (2012) https://books.google.ae/books?idp24GkAsgjGEC&printsecfrontcover&dqnigel+cumberland&hlen&saX&ved0ahUKEwjF75Xw0IHNAhULLcAKHazACBMQ6AEIGjAA#vonepage&qnigel%20cumberland&ffalse, p.119
Edmund Whalen (1958) roman-catholic clergyman
Source: Bishop-elect Edmund J. Whalen Fluently Reaches the Faithful https://cny.org/stories/bishop-elect-edmund-j-whalen-fluently-reaches-the-faithful,20259 (December 4, 2019)
“My job is to make people care about things they otherwise wouldn't.”
Book: Cometan, the Omnidoxy
Steve Jobs (1955–2011) American entrepreneur and co-founder of Apple Inc.
The management philosophy here really is to give people enough rope to hang themselves. We hire people to tell us what to do. That's what we pay them for. <br class="br">1990s <br class="br">Source: Steve Jobs, 1996, Fresh Air radio interview by Terry Gross, npr.org http://www.npr.org/2011/10/06/141115121/steve-jobs-computer-science-is-a-liberal-art, audio 26:30/31:05 <br class="br">Source: Steve Jobs 1982, interview in InfoWorld March 4, 1982, p.15 books.google https://books.google.fr/books?id=gT4EAAAAMBAJ&pg=PA15&dq=rope
Gracie Allen (1902–1964) American actress and comedienne
Source: How to Become President (1940), Ch. 1 : Government jobs pay big money
Context: Who am I to talk? That’s a fair question, and one which deserves a better answer than I can give you. … Come to think of it, who are you? Whoever you are, I sympathize with you. I sympathize with everybody; that’s what I get for being a candidate myself. Let them call us nonentities. Who cares? A nonenitiy can be just as famous as anybody else if enough people know about him.
But let’s leave personalities out of this and just talk about me.
Julius Malema (1981) South African political activist
On 4 March 2018, at the launch of the EFF's election registration campaign, Standard Bank arena, Johannesburg. Has EFF’s Julius Malema Gone Too Far With Racist Remarks? https://www.sapeople.com/2018/03/05/has-effs-julius-malema-gone-too-far-with-racist-remarks/, SAPeople News (5 March 2018)