You cant build a great company without great people. But how do you know them when you see them Over the past few years, a number of companies in a wide range of industries from airlines to steel, computers to hotels have asked themselves what separates their winners from their losers, good hires from bad, and they all arrived at the same answer what people know is less important than who they are. Hiring, they believe, is not about finding people with the right experience its about finding people with the right mind-set. These companies hire for attitude and train for skill.
Quotes about mind-set (16 Quotes)
After you've been through that O'Leary incident, everyone approaches it with an entirely different mind-set. The good thing about athletics is most of the stuff is easily verified. But there are an awful lot of facts and figures in their bio, some of which is almost impossible to verify yourself without spending weeks. ... Given the level of scrutiny, we've got to be crazy not to get this right. Nobody's going to cut any corners. If it takes another day, or week, to check something out, then it does. Let's not rush this.
My mind-set is Munich. Most of my generation's is Vietnam.
We're right where we need to be. The mind-set and the attitude, everything is perfect right now.
We still have to stress the fact that in spite of having the ability to hit a lot of home runs, we've got to have a different mind-set, or continue to think small and let the big things happen. Sometimes when you have a club like we have, you tend to wait around for boom, boom, boom, and sometimes it doesn't happen.
He'll have a heck of a career, ... That's what you want. You drafted a guy you think will be here for 10, 12 years. If he can stay consistent, stay healthy he has the ability to do that. I know he has the mind-set and the work ethic to do that.
I think there's definitely a focus in our game. We're a team that has the ability to shut down some high-powered teams and that's the way we're structured to play. Against the top teams, we seem to have a better mind-set.
I prefer the smaller budget versus the bigger budget because the mentality that goes along with big budget filmmaking doesn't really suit me; the mind-set that money is the answer.
You can expect our team to have an attacking mind-set with or without the ball, ... Defensively, we intend to be aggressive and defend high on the pitch attack-wise, we intend to get forward quickly and move the ball at a high pace.
That was huge. We talked about being focused (at halftime), we talked about having an attack mind-set, it was a five-point game at that point.
They had kind of an attack mind-set, and we got back on our heels. A lot of what they got, they got off our errors.
That's where you get the reward of being in the game. You're in there participating with what's going on in the present day. I still set goals for myself musically. They have to do with all the different aspects of being in a band. I always want to make what we do better. As long as you have that mind-set, you won't get stale. You only have to worry about that when you get this jaded attitude that you've made it, that you're established and that you can pretty much go and do the same thing for as long as you want. That, to me, is living death.
The choice the American people will make on November 2 is whether we will continue with the tough, aggressive and effective policies of this administration or revert back to the pre-911 mind-set by electing someone whose views on these issues are marked by indecision, confusion and contradiction.
We're going for the win, and Prince has a better chance of hitting a home run. That's the hardest thing to do in baseball. You have to have a special frame of mind going up there. He's got that special mind-set.
I'm going there with the mind-set I have nothing to lose.
It's quite an irony that we're commemorating martial law and we see that the militarist mind-set is so deep in this administration, ... The standard response to protest actions are massive troop and police deployment. These things are obviously intended to intimidate people, short of what Marcos did in 1972.