Something I do naturally is I just involve women in my professional work. I hire them, I pay them, I put them in the workplace I’m involved in.
I had this idea that I could hire myself out as a person to go on archeological digs and dig, without any training! I actually wrote to a number of archeology departments and offered up my services.
What career? A man’s got a body of film of about four movies in about 10 years or something. I do it because I think I can do a good job of something and I’ll enjoy it, do it, and sort of vanish. I don’t want to be an actor for hire.
When you hire a plumber because no hot water is coming out of the kitchen sink faucet, you need to go to the water heater, not the faucet.
In 1960, when I graduated from college, people told me a woman couldn’t go to law school. And when I graduated from law school, people told me, ‘Law firms won’t hire you.’
What I’m getting at is, you know, if we really want to get serious about helping all the people living in the street and getting people jobs, we could just hire half the people in the country to spy on the other half.
If you wanted to build an Internet startup in 2005, you had to buy your own servers and hire someone to manage it. Now, that’s unheard of.
When you hire me, you hire a nut who is going to work 24 hours a day for you and never, ever burn his audience.
Film’s hard when you don’t have any relationship with the director at all and you just show up. Then you really are just a gun for hire.
Most of us are ‘ultraconformists’ when it comes to who we are most likely to follow… to socialise with, or even who we are most likely to hire.
I hope Hong Kong and Asia wants to hire American Asian actresses as much as Hollywood has been hiring Chinese actors from Asia.
I’m my dad’s kid, and I’m still, right or wrong, fighting that uphill battle, and I’m not saying that makes sense. I mean my dad didn’t hire me at Fox… but it certainly gave me my start, and I think I’m always kind of fighting that.
I’m not the type of person who can be a director for hire, I have to find my own way into it.
I had the great good fortune of getting my Ph.D. in the very first year that universities were actively seeking women faculty. The government was putting pressure on universities to hire more women.
We need someone with superb judgement in their own right because, yes, a president can hire the best advisors on Earth, but I guarantee you this: Five advisors will give five different opinions. And it is the president – and the president alone – who always makes the final call.
If you don’t want a female coach, don’t hire one!
Really go out of your way to hire women, people of color, homosexuals, transgendered people – go out of your way to hire them.
At Affectiva, we hire top talent – and the entire world is our search space. I take pride in the cultural diversity of our team, and we celebrate it.
We have seen that, in another unfunded mandate, the so-called No Child Left Behind Act, which created tougher standards, and we all support that, but Congress did not provide the money to attract and hire the best teachers.
It is much easier to hire your 20th person than your 1st.
It’s illegal to hire or fire anybody because of their race, appearance, or sexual orientation, but in Hollywood, ironically, it’s the reason people will hire or not hire you.
By mandating equal pay, the government erases the competitive advantage of those people who are willing to take less pay. In addition, employers are less willing to hire employees who they believe could subject them to increased liability.
Wherever I am in the world, if I get free time when I’m filming I always hire a car, take to the road, drive for miles and explore.
When you’re a younger company, you struggle, struggle, struggle with, ‘How are we going to pay the bills, and how are we going to hire people, and how are we going to get a bigger office?’ Just managing the company is so hard.
In 1999, I was in St. Louis with Martin Luther King III as we led protests against the state’s failure to hire minority contractors for highway construction projects. We went at dawn on a summer day with over a thousand people and performed acts of civil disobedience.
Especially during the first nine months, there was so much going on with trying to hire 55 people to run the city, it was hard to imagine any honeymoon.
Initially we both did a bit of everything towards making each game but as we began to hire people and the business grew we naturally went in different directions, and away from the coalface of development.
I think the people that we hire in government should be just as diverse as the communities we represent.
It’s common procedure in the industry for people with little or no professional writing experience to get a book deal because of their profile, and then hire a writer.
If I was blond and tall, then I would have had 10 times the competition. I auditioned steadily and performed for everyone who would hire me. Now I am in a position to pick and choose my roles.
Clubs like Manchester United or Barcelona have a system, and then you hire personnel who fit this system.
Some people, especially literary people, they think, ‘I’ll write this original script, and it will be full of ideas. I’ll submit it, and they’ll hire me for television.’ That’s not the case.
If I could hire a coach in this country and I could get Tony Bennett, there would be nobody in second place. Nobody.
Managers tend to treat organizations as if they are infinitely plastic. They hire and fire, merge, downsize, terminate programs, add capacities. But there are limits to the shifts that organizations can absorb.
You have to give access to people with disabilities but there is no requirement to hire them. What I mean by affirmative obligation is that producers must take the necessary steps to include opportunities for people with disabilities and a vast majority of them do.
To define each other according to our superficial characteristics and then divide us and hire us and then separate us is nothing short of modern day segregation and modern day racism.
I have to make sure that I don’t silence myself about the things that I believe in, because sometimes the fear creeps in of ‘What if fewer people watch the show or fewer people hire me because I express my politics?’ For me, the commitment is to never be quiet just because I’m in the public eye.
The nice thing about student drama is that you’re allowed to get things wrong, because it doesn’t mean no one will ever hire you again.
I think great bosses hire great people. ‘A’ people hire ‘A’ people, but ‘B’ people hire ‘C’ people; they’re worried they might be shown up… they’re concerned that that person might make them look bad.
People wouldn’t hire me for comedies. They would say, ‘Oh, he doesn’t do comedy,’ and now it’s really all I do.
I am always talking to students and telling them how you have to practice every day because you can’t wait for someone to hire you. You need something you do for yourself, something that feeds your creative life.
Our job is quite strange in that we hire a coach, and therefore, we’re the boss. But coaches tell us what to do, and I think some coaches might struggle with the idea of a girl being the boss and telling them, ‘I don’t want to see you now. I want to have some time to myself.’
Whatever I have is because of the people who are watching me. I don’t have a PR agency, I don’t have a manager, and I don’t even have a professional portfolio. People who hire me are people who, just like the audience, have just seen me in a small role here or in an ad there.
When you surround yourself with white people, you continue to hire white people, and when you make an effort to hire people of color, that does bring in different stories and different people.
To anyone in the position to hire women directors: Make the commitment.
Hire the best people, and trust what you hired them to do.
If I was misogynist, would I hire a woman as my CEO? Probably not. I grew up in Denmark, for crying out loud. Denmark is probably one of the places where equality is actually fully achieved. Our political system is practically a matriarchy.
Hire passionate employees.
In the newspaper business, I was in the last generation before the arrival of the personnel manager. You were hired by editors – and editors who would take a chance on what they perceived to be talent and not hire a resume.
I’m my own stylist. Always! I don’t wanna hire someone to chose what I should wear. At the same time, I do always wanna wear some crazy clothes.
If you’re doing creative work, that work should never feel trivial – even if what you’re doing is for hire or lightly intended. Even the mundane doesn’t have to be trivial.
We embrace the shoestring budget. We like being limited by the constraints. It inspires creativity. I don’t know what we would spend money on. We don’t hire actors. We see budget constraints as a personal challenge. We’re like survivalist local commercial directors.
Every time I can find another engineer to add to the Chrome OS platform, I’m going to hire him.
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.
