"I like finding exceptional talent, paying them very well, and then sticking with them over a long period of time."
"The world could be better at finding, selecting people who are highly skilled, and promoting them."
"Instead of trying to basically enslave your talent and become abusive to them, it's about fostering them so they can end up growing, spreading their wings, and ultimately making a mark in the world."
"Legal actions will hurt your image and company more. Can agencies in 2024 stop with the threats and care about the wonderful talent they still have left?"
"The number one value is top talent in every seat because everything in the company comes back to people."
"HR should be every company's killer app. What could possibly be more important than who gets hired, developed, promoted, or moved out the door?"
"I've been associated with a lot of fights in my 32 years, but never in one building like this have I put together a talent fight card of this magnitude."
"This is the luxury slash frustrating part of having so many great talents hot all at the same time."
"Always find somebody in your department or in your business that can do it better than you are and hire that person."
"It's a talent acquisition business, and if you're not putting your coaching staff in the best position to go out and acquire talent, then you're at a disadvantage."
"Netflix's biggest risk isn't making a mistake; it's failing to attract top talent, invent new products, or change direction quickly enough when the situation changes."
"When you're hiring someone who has talent, you don't want to tell them what to do. You wanna hire people that are smart that they tell you what to do rather than the other way around."
"We have enormous talent in this country. They are treated like dirt and they're all kicked out and go off to other countries."
"I would love to sign the next Future, Drake, YoungBoy, Baby. Like, [ __ ] I want to be the person to sign them and show them how to have a retirement plan, how to buy property, how to buy a neighborhood."
"The problem with talented people is they know they're talented, and because they know they're talented, they develop an ego. And once the ego is controlling your life, you're gonna lose."
"Early cuts to talent operations can set an alarming precedent."
"Give everybody a job, keep them on staff. When you have talent, you lock them down, and this is how we do that. That's how those movies stay as good as they are."
"Every time one of Brighton star players leaves as they inevitably keep doing there seems to be an even younger and more capable replacement waiting in the wings."
"The truth is the only really intelligent way to run Hollywood is to find and hire the best talent for every job. To neglect talent to push race or gender will only ever result in an inferior product."
"I think every great creator needs to do that, right? You gotta have the best people around you, you have to have the smartest people around."
"They overwork their talents, they underappreciate their talents, and then when they're done, they throw them to the side."
"I got a full roster of artists that's gonna be superstars, megastars, or whatever stars they're gonna be."
"Brooke was a once-in-a-lifetime talent, snuffed out by Abby and her mother."
"The three key factors you have to look at: data, algorithms, and talent."
"Finding really great people... is what keeps me able to do what I'm doing."
"You are literally going to have your pick of the litter in b-class Hollywood."
"The talent is a rare jewel and should be treated like that."
"What's the talent base or skill base that I'm acquiring and how do I make sure that that talent and skill base stays with the new acquired company versus leaves?"
"You have to have a system that encourages people to behave to the limit of their abilities and puts them in the right place."
"You can be extremely talented and be successful, but the way to make it last, and the way to be better than everyone for a long period of time, is to have a plan and stick to that plan."
"The youth player at Manchester United is valued above any other player."
"A company becomes a great company based on the right people they hire."
"He's literally in the sunken place... that's such a confusing signing."
"You can sometimes beat somebody with more talent than you through pure grind."
"Investing in people is what it is it's realizing identifying the good people the loyal people the decent people that are going to be an asset to your company"
"Netflix has overvalued a lot of their content overpaying to lure top talent and green lighting projects often the pet projects have said top talent that no other studio would touch."
"It's a shame actually when you see fantastic talent... that potential is locked up, hindered terribly when it's by other people, but even worse when it's by themselves."
"Hard work beats talent when talent runs out; hard work beats challenge when talent stops working."
"We never had nobody facilitate our talent to the gatekeepers."
"I think you did an unbelievable job of hiring talent early on."
"Recruit the best talent like a pro sports team."
"If one wants to succeed, actively recruit the best talent."
"Developers are like gold, but hiding them means they're behind the game."
"Is USADA pushing out talent from the UFC to other places? And the question is, is that good or bad?"
"TSM does like to look forward, famously scouting young talent."
"You ain't going to make any money if you can't find badass people and attract them."
"Ensure high promising stars...put in the work to achieve their potential."
"Every single pick is important to this organization. It's the seventh rounder if you put a value of importance on the pick number you're doing it wrong every single pick."
"The layoffs also mean a reshuffling of the talent market in the industry."
"Building a roster is all about just getting really talented dudes and then system fit is nice but you kind of hope that you just have coaches that will adjust their system to the talent."
"We might have a year or two now with superstar X Factor where he can actually continue to develop instead of getting worse."
"We had very little talent actually. It was mostly coaching." - Steve Kerr
"The way she got the performances out of the talent in the film... it takes a really qualified, a really, really smart, intelligent director to pull it out of them."
"It's like there are very few organizations that can legitimately show that they are giving growth to Talent."
"We're wasting Talent, we're wasting the trends the tamores the Sanchos the fodens the ward prowessers the bellinghams the canes."
"You can outwork people with more talent by staying focused on your goals."
"Great friendly talented people working at the company, but it doesn't seem as though their talents are always being put to good use."
"It's finding that sort of medium ground between your talent and what is digestible so not everything is flying over people's heads."
"Create a space where it's all about great people above great talent."
"Stop writing talent off, give them a leash to go out there and do what they have to do."
"It's not always about Talent; Talent alone will not take you to the top. Talent needs mentality."
"It's not always about going for the better talent... it's about going for the player that's going to be on the pitch more."
"You want to have the best people, the best products, and protect your margin."
"It's not all about the individual players and how good they are talent-wise. It's about the team and who brings the best out in each other."
"Money goes hand in hand with top talents and top talent wins your games, isn't it?"
"Paul Heyman is a world-class manager, Roman Reigns is a world-class wrestler."
"When you have a generational talent, your obligation is to win now."
"What does this mean in a company? At a certain point you're gonna have to upgrade the talent that you currently have."
"What makes the difference in companies that are able to execute? It's what people... Talent acquisition, culture, and people."
"There's no other coach who could tame, who could help to perfect the greatest player of all time."
"A good leader has to spot the talented resources, the best people to do the different jobs, and the right products, the right direction to go. So, he was the direction setter."
"Every business I've built has been around best-in-class executive talent."
"When you're part of that offensive lineup at Liverpool, you have to understand that there are so many exceptional talents in there that you won't be able to play every game." - Dharma
"I'm fair though, I'll give them talent they can apologize."
"With the right incentives and right talent, technology can move pretty damn fast."
"The thing that matters is the systems by which an organization runs, and if those systems are bad then people's talents will be wasted."
"You don't turn your back on a talent like Sancho, you say both."
"Make sure you're teaming up with trustworthy people, build up a talented support team."
"Classic Warner Brothers, doing what's best for talent instead of the brand. They just gave James Gunn a huge kiss today."
"Some of the hits were Volkanovsky, Adesanya, and yeah, we've had a few misses too. But the whole point of this thing is to build a roadmap to who the future stars are."
"It's not so much about talent anymore, I just think it's about how well you mesh with the team."
"Eric Ten Hag will find talent, especially with younger players."
"He has been booked better than any new WWE champion in recent memory."
"Teams are built through culture, not talent."
"If Man United need to go back to principles of putting players on the pitch who actually want to work hard and are talented then that's what we need to do."
"Drake know what to do when to do it, who to pick to do it with, you know, facts."
"You can't just pop him into a team and say, 'There we go.' You have to build around a player like that."
"They're mortgaging the entire future of the company on this one guy."
"You have to build around bang if you want to build a good team with him."
"I hate that, I absolutely hate that it killed their opportunities, it killed all creativity WWE did it because they don't want to go out of their way and be creative, they don't want to have fun with the fucking talent they have on this show."
"The Packers had what every franchise hopes to have: a young, proven superstar quarterback."
"I always say hard work beats talent when talent don't work hard."
"WWE does things people want to see but bad people like and want to see older guys just not at the expense of younger talent."
"This is the utility talent I was talking about before."
"We don't need to see you out there wrestling. Push the talent that you have now."
"It's just it's a problem of comparisons, just he surrounded himself with so much incredible talent." - Eric
"AW is offering these talents something that they wouldn't get from WWE."
"It results in a narrower pool of talent, more prejudice, and it alienates people."
"He has come out of character, and if he had a bit more control, if I get this hot young wide receiver Antonio Brown, yeah, he's hard to control, but we gotta put up with him because, you know, he makes everything taste better."
"I believe in drafting, developing, and then retaining our own."
"Your ability to do work doesn't scale. What scales is your ability to attract good talent."
"Black people realize we have talent and take control of that."
"Strategic alignment: HR aligns talent with business strategy."
"When there was not a lot of talent here, people used to always look at Talent as the problem."
"If he's a great player, we'll find a way to make it work."
"The curse of the gifted... sometimes when you're so talented you just believe in the talent before you believe in anything else."
"You need players that really should start but don't start because there's better players than them."
"The talent as we've talked about is going to get the sympathy even if the company looks bad."
"Tesla has a winning strategy and winning human resources in place."
"We can be extremely balanced with Saquon. He's a generational talent."
"Everyone you hire should be so good that they're able to come in one day and say, I'm leaving because I'm going to start my own brand."
"No matter how talented you are, a psychological battle is very different from a physical battle."
"Talent is a starting point, it is not the end goal."
"I think in the position that you're in without obviously knowing really much or having seen you almost just have to pick up the most talented players available and go from there."
"You don't pass on Hall of Fame talents unless you really have a good reason."
"Sir Alex Ferguson did not prioritize trying hard, he prioritized talent."
"If you have the right team and talent, you can do anything."
"My idea of leadership of an organization is to hire the very best people you possibly can."
"You have so many talents that it may almost confuse you at times."
"He knows what he's doing man I don't see Cody Bushee ever signing with the WWE it's gonna be a waste of his fucking talent and he knows that they got no room for him whatsoever."
"Having talent tends to make people feel entitled."
"Hard work beats talent when talent is not working."
"If WWE don't start pushing you by now, you are never gonna be pushed."
"I think Brock Lesnar is the most extraordinary position that any talent can be in."
"They might not be the recently released WWE stars we’re all clamouring for in AEW, but it’s always great to see talent wrestlers get another chance."
"When quality talents are butchered and have precious months and years of their careers wasted away, that bothers me."
"Great prioritizing of your talent WWE, really great job there."
"Yeah, there's a talent gap there that we need to close."
"If you want to get the best talent, you had to give them the creative opportunity to do what they wanted." - Jeanette Kahn
"We have players with enough talent that we can read the current TL, but it's gonna be a challenge to see if they can synergize and work well enough together in order to do so."
"If you want to grow bigger than yourself, you have to find talent and talent is hard to find."
"Walters' journey in the music industry was equally impressive, having booked jazz luminaries and built a roster of notable disco, funk, R&B, soul, and rap artists."
"There should be no excuses about AEW not telling stories. He's got the greatest roster ever assembled and he's got a dedicated staff with him."
"Why are we turning players that are not good enough into something to try and make them good enough?"
"If it's about Talent optimization identifying developing retaining Talent then I'm that's my version of what Dei looks like."
"An offensive coordinator has got to be able to understand the pieces he has and develop an offense around that."
"There's a flip side to it which is keep it in check because there is a line of people talented and interesting."
"Find top-tier talent and give them the freedom to operate."
"They don't want another Katarina Macario situation."
"Do what you want... That's what you do with talent, you don't box 'em in."
"Wow could be so much better if it had better talent tuning."
"Whoever has the best talent in their company is going to be the winner."
"When you gain a superstar, it's a good problem to have."
"If they mess anything up, they may lose one of the best that they got in the entire company right now."
"WWE hopefully learned the lesson, don't hoard talent."
"Ferguson was able to make average players look very good, very good players look great."
"That's a good problem to have because you have a lot of good young talent coming in."
"He learned how to coach with talent, which is not easy."
"Booking is putting the talent you have in a position to sell the maximum amount of tickets possible."
"When your best team in the country is producing the best players, do you think the manager will play the best players?"
"Talent without character is a tragedy waiting to happen."
"Tony Khan allowed Danny Garcia to do what he needed to do to try and get a new audience behind him. Vince will kill it if it's not what he wanted, but Tony's gonna let his talent do what he needs to do to get over. There's the difference."
"Bobby Heenan had the ability to accentuate strengths and not exploit people's weaknesses."
"What I would like to see, I would like to see Tony Khan use this as an opportunity to take Malachi black and start using him more in singles matches."
"Keep your star happy, keep your talent happy as best you can. If you don't build new stars, you can't feed the superstars at the top."
"How do you find Talent, how do you elevate it, how do you teach them right from wrong, how do you find people to manage that Talent, how do you elevate them, how do you do that?"
"For me to have the staying power to still be relevant right now and have so many actors and actors come out and work for me, I mean it's so much talent that I'm able to connect because of my growth."
"I think it's this secret of talent management and talent retention."
"Most organizations are interested in figuring out ways in which they could use their talent better."
"Very few CEOs have a major or a minor in talent or people."
"Every organization needs and has top performers. It's your job as a leader to lead them correctly and give them lots of personalized attention."
"Some of them that have become recording artists but never had somebody sit down with them to learn how to manage their career for the future time."
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"You've got a roster full of great talent, and that talent wants to work."
"Every company should have a process in place to monitor the health of their talents. There's nothing more important in any wrestling company."
"They got a problem with their talent and they're acting like 10th graders sometimes."
"And the danger for us is that we could even lose some of our best people to the competition."
"Your personnel is gonna define your ideas, systems mold around the best players."
"The secret sauce at Goldman Sachs is the people. We have extraordinary people in our organization. It is an extraordinary organization from a talent perspective. And we have to keep that."
"You have to budget for it for these things. When you hit on players that play well, those are good problems to have."
"You hire the best players and let them do it, the proof is in the pudding."
"I hire the best, and you know, the great thing is Marvel and DC, those guys are busy."
"It's all about people, it's your ability to find, recruit, train, and retain good people."
"Talent management refers to the systematic, planned, and strategic effort by a company to attract, develop, and motivate highly skilled employees and managers."
"Culture beats talent, and we had to build a really strong culture to beat maybe teams that maybe had a little better talent than we did early on."
"I think the Baseline is Adam Peters understood how to take athletes and understood how to take like the easy pick."
"I hire talent, I want guys that are enthusiastic workaholics."
"The best talent around the world... enables countries and companies to collaborate across the globe."
"We need to change the structure of the teaching profession to attract, develop, retain, and motivate the best talent."
"The workforce 10 years from now is going to be better than the workforce today if you play those two streams the right way."
"Talent ID in the sense of being able to see what a player's strengths are and delegate them a certain task or play them in a certain position that plays into their strengths and hides their weaknesses as much as possible."
"That's always the goal, to bring in as much talent as possible."
"This is a huge opportunity for someone to aggregate that talent and create a staffing agency for Western companies."
"Everyone needs a system that's going to produce talent over a long period of time."
"Talent management best practices in the healthcare industry do apply across industries and disciplines."
"Talent management is wedded directly to achieving a strategic competitive advantage."
"There are numerous long-term benefits that accrue to firms that maintain investment in talent management systems."
"A 40 percent decrease in annual full-time turnover for firms that prioritize talent management translates into huge cost savings."
"Firms that value talent management practices see roughly a 38 percent increase in annual revenue per FTE."
"If we're serious about lowering cost structure, perhaps we get serious about our talent management architecture."
"Being a producer is putting talent in the best spot to succeed."
"90% of making a great movie is hiring the right people."
"This is more of a paradigm change where companies are trying to shift their talents for the long term."
"The organization, the company with the best people wins."
"This is not only a way to retain your top talent, but it's a way to invest in your future."
"Many companies are actually trying to simplify their rating process and they're moving to a focus on rewarding exceptional talent."
"To thy self be true. That is a part of our talent plan."
"Vince was a genius in making the decisions, in finding the people, and setting up the structure."
"We saw we got a player here; we far exceeded our expectations and will continue to do so as long as we market him well."
"Hire someone better than yourself; you always have to be upleveling your talent."