A Quote by Daryl Gates

No police department should hire more quickly than they can assimilate the people that they bring in, and we did. I take responsibility for it. It was the first opportunity I had to hire, and I wanted to do it, and I take responsibility.

Daryl Gates

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Daryl Gates
American - Public Servant
August 30, 1926 - April 16, 2010

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The saying in business is that, 'You hire for skills and you fire for behavior.' And one would argue that in order to move up in career, to be promoted, to take on additional responsibility, in many ways that's linked more to the attitudes and behaviors that you carry rather than what you know technically about a given subject.

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Later, you should learn to hire fast and scale up the company, but in the early days the goal should be not to hire. Not to hire.

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Good people hire people better than themselves. So A players hire A+ players. But others hire below their skills to make themselves look good. So B players hire C players. C players hire D players, etc.

Guy Kawasaki

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I've done everything I know in my heart on every level to take responsibility for what I think I have to. I'm not going to take responsibility for something the government thinks that I should because they think I should.

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Sue Kelly

If you take away religion, you can't hire enough police.

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There is no more important responsibility than protecting human health and the environment. It is a responsibility I take very seriously.

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Just as we demand that people take responsibility for their actions, we as a society must take responsibility for fighting injustice.

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