"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." - David Ogilvy

"Great vision without great people is irrelevant." - Jim Collins

"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

"If you think hiring professionals is expensive, try hiring amateurs." - Anonymous

"I hire people brighter than me and then get out of their way." - Lee Iacocca

"Development can help great people be even better--but if I had a dollar to spend, I'd spend 70 cents getting the right person in the door." - Paul Russell

"Human resources isn't a thing we do. It's the thing that runs our business." - Steve Wynn, CEO of Wynn Resorts Limited

"I don't pay good wages because I have a lot of money. I have a lot of money because I pay good wages." - Robert Bosch

"If you pay peanuts, you get monkeys." - Chinese Proverb

"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

"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