Never hire someone who knows less than you do about what he's hired to do.
Interpretation
Always seek to employ individuals with equal or greater expertise than yourself in their area of work.
This quote emphasizes the importance of hiring individuals who possess a level of knowledge and skill that meets or exceeds that of the employer. By doing so, a leader not only ensures that the team has the right expertise to succeed but also fosters an environment of growth, collaboration, and innovation within the workplace.
In practice
In a business meeting, to emphasize the importance of hiring skilled team members.
Over the years, I've evolved a somewhat heretical but time-and mind-saving approach to books, articles, editorials that deal with weighty matters. More often than not, by beginning at the end and contemplating the conclusions, one can determine if it's worth going through the whole to get there.
Those who enjoy responsibility usually get it; those who merely like exercising authority usually lose it.
To live long and achieve happiness, cultivate the art of radiating happiness.
The purpose of education is to replace an empty mind with an open one.
If you never budge, don't expect a push.
It's never a good deal when only one party thinks it is.
That's all managing is: just coming up with the right questions and getting the right answers.
No other President ever enjoyed the Presidency as I did.
My job as a leader is not to put more stress into a system that is already stressed.
I have always felt it was a handicap for oppressed peoples to depend so largely upon a leader, because unfortunately in our culture, the charismatic leader usually becomes a leader because he has found a spot in the public limelight.
The greatest leader is not necessarily the one who does the greatest things. He is the one that gets the people to do the greatest things.
There is really no crisis except an artificial one...If the great American people will only keep their temper, on both sides of the line, the trouble will come to an end.
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