The secret to successful hiring is this: look for the people who want to change the world.
Interpretation
Successful hiring focuses on finding individuals who are passionate about making a positive impact.
Marc Benioff's quote emphasizes that the foundation of effective hiring lies in identifying candidates who are driven by a desire to enact change in the world. Such individuals often possess the motivation, vision, and work ethic necessary to contribute significantly to an organization's success and to inspire others in the process.
In practice
In a leadership workshop, I shared the quote to emphasize the importance of vision in team building.
Once you know what you want and what is important for you to achieve, also define the values associated with it. What is important? That is something a lot of entrepreneurs pass by too quickly. For us, the things that were important were, No. 1, customer success. Nothing is more important to us than making sure every customer is successful in our service.
I strongly believe the business of a business is to improve the world.
I don't look at business as a zero-sum game. I don't. I've never seen it play out that way in our industry, and I think you innovate and you add value, deliver value back to customers, and you get value back from the world.
Although I loved working on technology - I've always been a computer geek at heart - my professors encouraged me to get a real-world job working with customers.
The only constant in the technology industry is change.
The antidote to inequality is equality. The question is how do you achieve equality? I believe that, for business, which is where I can speak, we have to shift from shareholder maximization to stakeholder maximization.
When people ask me, ‘how do you make it in show business,’ or whatever, what I always tell them — and nobody ever takes note of it ‘cuz it’s not the answer they wanted to hear…but I always say, ‘Be so good they can’t ignore you.’
He has achieved success who has worked well, laughed often, and loved much.
Don't feel entitled to anything you didn't sweat and struggle for.
In sports, you simply aren't considered a real champion until you have defended your title successfully. Winning it once can be a fluke; winning it twice proves you are the best.
Even my failures make money and become classics a year after I make them.
In my first year, when I was driving in runs, winning games and making headlines, there was an old man who came to games at Seals Stadium, and one day he called me over, introduced himself and told me not to believe anything written about me or think too much of all the accolades.
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