24 Inspirational Quotes for Recruiters (2024)

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• August 24, 2021
• Inspiration

Quotes About Recruiting That Will Inspire

by Ashley Ward & Kayla Ezinga

1. “If you think it’s expensive to hire a professional, wait until you hire an amateur.”
   – Red Adair
2. “Time spent on hiring is time well spent.”
   – Robert Half
3. “Sourcing and finding people is the most important. You can’t recruit, message, or network with someone you haven’t found.”
   – Glen Cathey
4. “The harder you work, the luckier you get.”
   – Anonymous
5. “Your human talent is your most important talent.”
   – Carla Harris
6. “Hiring the wrong people is the fastest way to undermine a sustainable business.”
   – Kevin J. Donaldson
7. “People are not your most important asset. The right people are.”
   – Jim Collins
8. “Acquiring the right talent is the most important key to growth. Hiring was — and still is — the most important thing we do.”
   – Marc Benioff
9. “To hire is to take people higher…”
   – Haresh Sippy
10. “Great vision without great people is irrelevant.”
    – Jim Collins
11. “A modern recruiter is one who is targeted, builds relationships and knows how to not only find candidates but also get them to respond!”
    – Stacy Donovan Zapar
12. “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
13. “You cannot push anyone up the ladder unless he is willing to climb.”
    – Andrew Carnegie
14. “The most dangerous leadership myth is that leaders are born-that there is a genetic factor to leadership. That’s nonsense; in fact, the opposite is true. Leaders are made rather than born.”
    – Warren Bennis
15. “Recruiting should be viewed as a business partner, someone who is critical to the success of the business.”
    – Mathew Caldwell
16. “Human Resources isn’t a thing we do. It’s the thing that runs our business.”
    – Steve Wynn
17. “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
18. “Train people well enough so they can leave, treat them well enough so they don’t want to.”
    – Richard Branson
19. “If you hire good people, give them good jobs, and pay them good wages, generally something good is going to happen.”
    – James Sinegal
20. “Acquiring the right talent is the most important key to growth. Hiring was — and still is — the most important thing we do.”
    – Marc Bennioff
21. “The secret of my success is that we have gone to exceptional lengths to hire the best people in the world.”
    – Steve Jobs
22. “You can dream, create, design and build the most wonderful place in the world…but it requires people to make the dream a reality.”
    – Walt Disney
23. “Your employer brand is never what you say it is. It’s what your employees and candidates say it is.”
    – Jillian Einck
24. “Do epic sh*t”
    – HR.com

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