
I Want to be a Mathematician: An Automathography (1985)
Day 18 (This saying was popularized by former U.S. Secretary of Defense Donald Rumsfeld in his "Rumsfeld's Rules" document, dating back to his tenure on the Ford Administration transition team.)
Reamde (2011), Part II: American Falls
I Want to be a Mathematician: An Automathography (1985)
Presidential campaign (April 12, 2015 – 2016), Speech in (August 25, 2016)
Source: Introduction to Hawk’s Hill in Marion Zimmer Bradley (ed.), Sword and Sorceress 7 (1990), p. 183
“Let’s free entrepreneurs to do what they do best – innovate, grow, and hire.”
Presidential campaign (April 12, 2015 – 2016), Speech in Warren, Michigan (August 11, 2016)
“You don’t hire for skills, you hire for attitude. You can always teach skills.”
Source: Start with Why: How Great Leaders Inspire Everyone to Take Action
“I didn’t hire you to come here and lie! That’s a true note. I signed it. I’ll pay it.…”
Courtroom exclamation to his lawyer, who had begun to deny that Allen's signature on a document was genuine, as quoted in "In the name of the Great Jehovah and the Continental Congress!" - American Heritage magazine Vol. 14, Issue 6 (October 1963)
Context: I didn’t hire you to come here and lie! That’s a true note. I signed it. I’ll pay it.… What I employed you for was to get this business put over to the next court — not come here and lie and juggle about it!
Rampart Institute (Society for Libertarian Life edition), speech from 1978, p. 16.
Does Government Protection Protect (1979)
“Always be smarter than the people who hire you.”
Source: Your Job-Hunt Ltd – Advice from an Award-Winning Asian Headhunter (2003), p.21