Human Resources Quotes:

Our greatest resource is the human resource.

- Mal Fletcher

topic: Resources, Human Resources, Humans

The only waste of human resources is letting them go unused.

- Mark Victor Hansen

source: FaceBook post by Mark Victor Hansen from Jul 29, 2015

topic: Waste, Resources, Human Resources

"Human resources are like natural resources; they're often buried deep You have to go looking for them; they're not just lying around on the surface You have to create the circumstances where they show themselves"

- Ken Robinson

topic: Education, Lying, Natural, Natural Resources, Human Resources

Organizations are communities of human beings, not collections of human resources

- Henry Mintzberg

source: Henry Mintzberg (2015). “Rebalancing Society: Radical Renewal Beyond Left, Right, and Center”, p.32, Berrett-Koehler Publishers

topic: Organization, Community, Resources, Human Resources

Human resources are the most valuable assets the world has. They are all needed desperately.

- Eleanor Roosevelt

source: "Tomorrow Is Now" by Eleanor Roosevelt, (p. 71), 1963.

topic: World, Assets, Resources, Human Resources

In order that people may be happy in their work, these three things are needed: They must be fit for it. They must not do too much of it. And they must have a sense of success in it.

- John Ruskin

topic: Inspirational, Motivational, Positive, Work Done, Inspired To Work

The key for us, number one, has always been hiring very smart people.

- Bill Gates

topic: Recruitment, Human Resources

Accepted that we all are human resources, but we are humans first and resources later.

- Rutvik Oza

topic: Firsts, Accepted, Resources, Human Resources

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

topic: Relationship, People, The End Of The Day, Recruitment, Staffing

An enterprise is a community of human beings, not a collection of "human resources".

- Henry Mintzberg

topic: Learning, Knowledge, Community, Human Resources

Success in business requires training and discipline and hard work. But if you're not frightened by these things, the opportunities are just as great today as they ever were.

- David Rockefeller

topic: Motivational, Success, Hard Work, Inspirational Hard Work, Inspired To Work

Why should there be hunger and deprivation in any land, in any city, at any table, when man has the resources and the scientific know-how to provide all mankind with the basic necessities of life? There is no deficit in human resources. The deficit is in human will.

- Martin Luther King, Jr.

topic: Men, Land, Cities, Human Will, Human Resources

An organization is really a factory for producing new ideas and for linking those ideas with resources - human resources, financial resources, knowledge resources, infrastructure resources - in an effort to create value. These are processes that you can map, with results that you can measure.

- John Kao

source: Interview with Joel Kurtzman, www.strategy-business.com. October 1, 1996.

topic: Organization, Ideas, Effort, Financial Resources, Human Resources

The secret of joy in work is contained in one word - excellence. To know how to do something well is to enjoy it.

- Pearl S. Buck

source: "Biography/Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

topic: Inspirational, Motivational, Success, Joy In Work, Joy Of Living

The development of our human resources is an area in which we need to do well as it is decisive in determining the success of our diversification programme.

- Hassanal Bolkiah

topic: Needs, Development, Resources, Diversification, Programmes

We think of our land and water and human resources not as static and sterile possessions but as life giving assets to be directed by wise provisions for future days.

- Franklin D. Roosevelt

topic: Wise, Thinking, Land, Land And Water, Water Resources

Management is nothing more than motivating other people.

- Lee Iacocca

topic: Inspirational, Motivational, Positive, Top Management, Management Motivation

Being busy does not always mean real work.

- Thomas A. Edison

topic: Real, Mean, Doe, Infinite Intelligence, Productions

You need to have a collaborative hiring process.

- Steve Jobs

topic: Insightful, Needs, Process, Recruitment, Human Resources

Thinking is the ultimate human resource.  Yet we can never be satisfied with our most important skill.  No matter how good we become, we should always want to be better

- Edward de Bono

topic: Thinking, Skills, Important, Human Resources

Analytical software enables you to shift human resources from rote data collection to value-added customer service and support where the human touch makes a profound difference.

- Bill Gates

topic: Data Collection, Human Resources

I want to be thoroughly used up when I die, for the harder I work the more I live. I rejoice in life for its own sake.

- George Bernard Shaw

topic: Positive Thinking, Optimism, Want, Daily Work, Social Responsibility

The worst loss for any country is not the infrastructure or the buildings or the material loss; actually, it's the human resources loss.

- Bashar al-Assad

source: The Associated Press Interview, www.foxnews.com. September 21, 2016.

topic: Country, Loss, Building, Human Resources

I am a great believer in luck, and I find the harder I work the more I have of it.

- Stephen Leacock

source: Stephen Leacock, Gerald Lynch (2002). “Leacock on Life”, p.91, University of Toronto Press

topic: Inspirational, Motivational, Positive, Daily Work, True Believer

Recently, I was asked if I was going to fire an employee who made a mistake that cost the company $600,000. No, I replied, I just spent $600,000 training him. Why would I want somebody to hire his experience?

- Thomas J. Watson

topic: Business, Mistake, Fire, Employing, Proper Training

The test of the artist does not lie in the will with which he goes to work, but in the excellence of the work he produces.

- Thomas Aquinas

topic: Art, Work, Lying, Human Resources

In work we act under the predominant motive of external, rational necessities; in pleasure, under the predominant motive of other, equally general necessities of human nature. Rest or recreation is the element in which the personality seeks to renew its strength from these stimuli that exhaust the reserve of human resources. It's an element introduced into life by the person himself.

- Nikolay Chernyshevsky

source: Nikolay Gavrilovich Chernyshevsky, Michael R. Katz (1989). “What Is to Be Done?”, p.315, Cornell University Press

topic: Personality, Elements, Human Nature, Human Resources

The best way to be productive is to have a great team. So I spend more time than most CEOs on human resources. That's 20 percent of my week.

- Kevin P. Ryan

topic: Team, Way, Week, Human Resources

I hire people brighter than me and then I get out of their way.

- Lee Iacocca

topic: People, Insightful, Way, Recruitment, Great Management

Going to work for a large company is like getting on a train. Are you going sixty miles an hour or is the train going sixty miles an hour and you're just sitting still?

- J. Paul Getty

topic: Work, Sitting, Getting High, Large Companies, Sitting Still

Never hire someone who knows less than you do about what he's hired to do.

- Malcolm Forbes

topic: Business, Insightful, Hiring, Recruitment, Human Resources

The important work of moving the world forward does not wait to be done by perfect men.

- George Eliot

topic: Inspirational, Motivational, Work, Important Work, Human Resources

Whenever it is in any way possible, every boy and girl should choose as his life work some occupation which he should like to do anyhow, even if he did not need the money.

- William Lyon Phelps

topic: Motivational, Girl, Boys, Inspired To Work, Human Resources

One of the symptoms of an approaching nervous breakdown is the belief that one's work is terribly important.

- Bertrand Russell

topic: Success, Work, Stress, Important Work, Inspirational Stress Relief

The best thing that happened from that situation when I failed was the fact that I failed and I failed because I was trying to do things that I don't like to do. I like to make movies and I like the creative process. I don't really care about the business end of it. It's not my thing. So I was all of sudden totally immersed in the business end of it and dealing with human resources, lawyers, and accountants, and so on. It wasn't for me.

- Jerry Weintraub

source: Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

topic: Creative, Trying, Care, Human Resources

It's more than just selling pizzas. It's being a good fit for the community. We hire based on the betterment of the community as much as anything.

- Mark Starr

topic: Community, Insightful, Fit, Human Resources

Nothing is work unless you'd rather be doing something else.

- George Halas

topic: Work, Daily Work, Inspirational Hard Work, Work Done, Inspirational Office

When hiring key employees, there are only two qualities to look for: judgement and taste. Almost everything else can be bought by the yard.

- John W. Gardner

topic: Keys, Two, Judgement, Recruitment, Great Management

The recognized achievements of some Negroes, despite rigid racial barriers, indicate that society by its prejudices may be depriving itself of valuable contributions from many others. It is now doubtful whether America can afford the luxury of such a waste of human resources.

- Kenneth Clark

source: Kenneth B. Clark (1988). “Prejudice and Your Child”, p.61, Wesleyan University Press

topic: Luxury, America, Justice, Human Resources

Great vision without great people is irrelevant.

- James C. Collins

topic: People, Insightful, Vision, Great Management, Great Vision

There is no doubt that creativity is the most important human resource of all. Without creativity, there would be no progress, and we would be forever repeating the same patterns.

- Edward de Bono

topic: Creativity, Forever, Innovation, Innovation Inspiration, Inspiration And Creativity

I think what's happening is companies are trying to maximize shareholder value and I think they realized that if they could hire more effectively, they would. What I'm suggesting, though, is that human resources departments in most companies have become so detached - have become such a bureaucracy - that they have become clueless. They don't realize that the processes they have put in place have very little to do with recruiting, retaining and bringing on talent.

- Nick Corcodilos

topic: Clueless, Thinking, Trying, Human Resources

India is going to be the 21st century's Saudi Arabia in terms of human resources

- Rahul Gandhi

topic: Arabia, India, Resources, Human Resources

Businesses just want to increase their profits; it's up to the government to make sure they distribute enough of those profits so workers have the money to buy the goods they produce. It's no mystery - the less poverty, the more commerce. The most important investment we can make is in human resources.

- Jose Mujica

source: "10 Reasons to Love Uruguay’s President José Mujica" by Medea Benjamin, www.huffingtonpost.com. May 14, 2014.

topic: Powerful, Government, Important, Poorest, Human Resources

I feel sorry for human resource people nowadays. HR is marginalized. No one really pays much attention to what's going on in HR and HR struggles with the fact that what is prevalent in America today is job boards, huge databases that we use to recruit and hire people.

- Nick Corcodilos

topic: Sorry, Struggle, People, Human Resources

HR?' 'Human Resources.' 'In Brussels that kind of department is referred to as the Office for Personkind Enablement. Resources sounds like something you dig out of the ground.

- Peter F. Hamilton

source: Peter F. Hamilton (2012). “Great North Road”, p.63, Pan Macmillan

topic: Office, Sound, Kind, Like Something, Brussels

No country, however rich, can afford the waste of its human resources. Demoralization caused by vast unemployment is our greatest extravagance. Morally, it is the greatest menace to our social order.

- Franklin D. Roosevelt

source: Roosevelt, Franklin D. (1938). “Public Papers of the Presidents of the United States: F.D. Roosevelt, 1934, Volume 3”, p.420, Best Books on

topic: Country, Order, Unemployment, Demoralization, Human Resources

More fundamental than religion is our basic human spirituality. We have a basic human disposition towards love, kindness and affection, irrespective of whether we have a religious framework or not. When we nurture this most basic human resource - when we set about cultivating those basic inner values which we all appreciate in others, then we start to live spiritually.

- Dalai Lama

topic: Religious, Kindness, Appreciate, Love And Affection, Human Resources