First-rate people hire first-rate people; second-rate people hire third-rate people.
Sentiment: NEGATIVE
First rate mathematicians choose first rate people, but second rate mathematicians choose third rate people.
If you go to a second-rate place, and you are first-rate, it is very difficult to do first-rate work because you do not get that critical feedback you need for first-rate work on a daily basis.
American workers are first rate.
The third-rate mind is only happy when it is thinking with the majority. The second-rate mind is only happy when it is thinking with the minority. The first-rate mind is only happy when it is thinking.
Two new workers are being added to the population for every one job that is created.
Your employees come first. And if you treat your employees right, guess what? Your customers come back, and that makes your shareholders happy. Start with employees and the rest follows from that.
If a company is second rate, the logo will eventually be perceived as second rate. It is foolhardy to believe that a logo will do its job immediately, before an audience has been properly conditioned.
What's terrible is to pretend that second-rate is first-rate. To pretend that you don't need love when you do; or you like your work when you know quite well you're capable of better.
When you start to prioritize hiring likable people within your organization, these likable people will attract other likable people.
But no work from a first rate mind is ever really second rate.