QUOTATION 25
WARREN BUFFET ON WHY INTEGRITY TRUMPS INTELLIGENCE AND ENERGY WHEN APPOINTING PEOPLE (TOP TEN ENTRY)
Use this to remind you of the key characteristics you should be looking for when you appoint or promote staff.
Warren Buffet (b. 1930), the world’s leading investment manager, likes to keep things simple: e.g. his investment strategy is to buy good stocks and hold them for a long time. He has applied the same simplicity to the appointment of staff and suggests that there are three things you should look for when recruiting people:
Somebody once said that in looking for people to hire, you look for three qualities: integrity, intelligence and energy. And if they don’t have the first, the other two will kill you. You think about ...
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