It doesn’t make sense to hire smart people and then tell them what to do. We hire smart people so they can tell us what to do.
Hire people smarter than you are and encourage them to bloom.
The key for us, number one, has always been hiring very smart people.
In order to build a great technology company, you have to hire lots of incredibly smart people. It's a total waste to have lots of big brains but not let them work on your biggest problems.
We win because we hire the smartest people. We improve our products based on feedback, until they're the best. We have retreats each year where we think about where the world is heading.
If you don't hire at least one or two people that are smarter than you are, then you're a terrible manager and I don't need you.
If you can't hire someone smarter than you, do it yourself.
If there's any secret to my success, it's that I just hire people who are smarter and more talented than I am.
I think most people either forget or don't know that Microsoft only hires people with I.Q.'s well over 130.
Hire extremely independent, intelligent, and passionate people, not necessarily "experts." Maybe three or four of my employees have MBAs, and those guys aren't necessarily at the top of the food chain.
I'm into hiring smart guys; I'm into hiring guys who can think at a higher level, that can offer ideas.
There are very few black-and-white truths in management or in business, but one that I have found is that people either hire people who are smarter than them, or people hire people they can control.
Don't ever be afraid to hire people that are smarter than you. Just because they are smarter than you doesn't mean they have to make more money.
My philosophy is to always find the smartest people you can. Hire people smarter than you.
I value my staff and I believe in hiring people who are smarter than myself.
Increase your company's average talent with each hire - founders tend to be pretty smart but willing to take on risk. Employees should be a lot smarter and less risk averse.
We hire people who are smarter than us.
I always make sure I hire people smarter than me.
