“I hire people and I fire them if they cannot take criticism.”

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hire people and fire them if they cannot take criticism

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“He was able to hire so many people and hire and fire them in a ruthless way, you know, making the workmen work hard. You know, he could just fire them. It was the Depression.”
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“Ahmed, always hire A-grade people around you because A-grade people hire other A-grade people. If you hire a B-grade person, they're going to hire Cs and Ds.”
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“We started hiring people that were probably more mature than we really needed and paying more than they maybe even deserve because like we knew their value and we wanted to show them how much we believed in them and valued them and trusted in them.”
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