If each of us hires people who are smaller than we are, we shall become a company of dwarfs. But if each of us hires people who are bigger than we are, we shall become a company of giants.
The striking thing is that WHO doesn't really have the authority to do any of this. It can't tell governments what to do. It hires no vaccinators, distributes no vaccine. It is a small Geneva bureaucracy run by several hundred international delegates whose annual votes tell the organization what to do but not how to do it. …The only substantial resource that WHO has cultivated is information and expertise.
I get flack for saying [when I visit a college and give a speech], "This is a nice college, but the really great educator is McDonald's. " They hate me for saying this and think I'm a slimy creature. But McDonald's hires people with bad work habits, trains them, and teaches them to come to work on time and have good work habits. I think a lot of what goes on there is better than at Harvard.
One hires lawyers as on hires plumbers, because one wants to keep one's hands off the beastly drains.
Jon Stewart hires people that he thinks are funny. That's it. That's the only requirement.
I'm kind of shocked any time somebody hires me and even more shocked any time somebody hires me to play a character like Lex Luthor, which I only knew from the public consciousness of him being a bald, brooding villain who is older than me.
Remember, the U. S. is a powerful state, it's not like Libya. If Libya wants to carry out terrorist acts, they hire Carlos the Jackal or something. The United States hires terrorist states.
Most of the best hires that I've made in my entire life have never done that thing before.
Any chief executive who hires a consultant to give them strategy should be fired.
Stewardesses are still paid so little that in many cases, new hires qualify for food stamps.
An intelligent person hires people who are more intelligent than he is.
