"There are good people and there are great people. Great people tend to hire other great people, because that's who they want to work with. But good people tend to hire people who aren't so good. They don't want to manage people who are smarter than they are. So over time, unless you're tough and disciplined, the talent level in the company declines to the lowest common denominator, and you wind up with lots of crappy people. It's a disaster. But it takes tremendous willpower not to compromise."
This is very similar to what a colleague of mine said close to 10 years ago about "The Pygmy theory of hiring". It goes "The pygmy will always hire people who are shorter than him"
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