#Human Resources Quotes

“The supreme duty of the Nation is the conservation of human resources through an enlightened measure of social and industrial justice. We pledge ourselves to work unceasingly in State and Nation for ... the protection of home life against the hazards of sickness, irregular employment and old age through the adoption of a system of social insurance adapted to American use.”

“An employer has no business with a man's personality... The task is not to change personality, but to enable a person to achieve and to perform.”

“An employer has no business with a man's personality. Employment is a specific contract calling for a specific performance... Any attempt to go beyond that is usurpation. It is immoral as well as an illegal intrusion of privacy. It is abuse of power. An employee owes no "loyalty," he owes no "love" and no "attitudes" - he owes performance and nothing else. .... The task is not to change personality, but to enable a person to achieve and to perform.”

“One cannot hire a hand; the whole man always comes with it.”

“Management is about human beings. Its task is to make people capable of joint performance, to make their strengths effective and their weaknesses irrelevant.”

“The key to greatness is to look for people's potential and spend time developing it.”

“No organization can depend on genius; the supply is always scarce and unreliable. It is the test of an organization to make ordinary people perform better than they seem capable of, to bring out whatever strength there is in its members, and to use each person's strength to help all the other members perform.”

“Managers are the basic and scarcest resource of any business enterprise.”

“The organization is, above all, social. It is people.”

“You can't manage knowledge.Knowledge is between two ears and only between two ears.”

“People alone of all the resources can grow and develop.”

“Effective organizations put people in jobs in which they can do the most good. They place people -- and allow people to place themselves -- according to their strengths.”

“The only real difference between one organization and another is the performance of its people.”

“The individual is the central, rarest, most precious capital resource of our society.”

“The most important decisions in organizations are people decisions, and yet only the military, and only recently, has begun to ask, "If we assign this general to lead this base, what do we expect him to accomplish?"”

“A man should never be appointed into a managerial position if his vision focuses on people's weaknesses rather than on their strengths.”

“No country, however rich, can afford the waste of its human resources. Demoralization caused by vast unemployment is our greatest extravagance. Morally, it is the greatest menace to our social order.”