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Paige Rhodes, CEO, Rhodes & Weinstock

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Prior to co-founding Rhodes & Weinstock in 2009, Paige Rhodes spent more than 15 years in staffing, human resources, and law-firm management.

Throughout her career, she gained an intricate knowledge of the temporary, temp-to-hire, and direct placement services. In addition to her staffing industry experience, Paige also spent several years in human resources, and as an HR Manager at two large law firms in the DC Metropolitan area.

The combination of in-house and outplacement recruiting experience gives her a unique understanding of the hiring needs and concerns of her clients, from large multinational corporations to small start-ups.

Paige prides herself on developing long-term relationships with her candidates and clients. She believes superior customer service and honesty are the cornerstones of a successful business relationship. Paige is a member of the American Staffing Association and the National Association of Women Business Owners. She is a graduate of the University of Florida and a proud Gator!

Click here to learn more about Rhodes & Weinstock. Contact Paige at prhodes@r-wgroup.com.

You have enemies? Good. That means you’ve stood up for something, sometime in your life.”

– Winston Churchill

When I dare to be powerful—to use my strength in the service of my vision, then it becomes less and less important whether I am afraid.”

– Audre Lorde

When we speak we are afraid our words will not be heard or welcomed. But when we are silent, we are still afraid. So it is better to speak.”

– Audre Lorde

Education is an admirable thing to have, but it is well to remember that nothing worth knowing can be taught.”

– Oscar Wilde

Speaking more than one language is no longer just an asset in today’s job market; it is a requirement.”

– Tom Adams, CEO, Rosetta Stone

You must have chaos within you, to create a dancing star.”

– Frederic Nietzsche

No man will make a great leader who wants to do it all himself, or to get all the credit for doing it”

– Andrew Carnegie

Entrepreneurs need to search purposefully for the sources of innovation that indicate opportunities for success.”

– Peter F. Drucker

You take your life in your own hands, and what happens?
 A terrible thing: no one to blame.”

– Erica Jong

He who knows he has enough is rich.”

– Tao Te Ching

Instead of loving your enemies, treat your friends a little better.”

– Edgar W. Howe

If it isn’t good, let it die. If it doesn’t die, make it good.”

– Ajahn Chah

The best hobbies are the ones that take us furthest from our primary occupation.”

– Dr. Evelyn Vogel, Dexter

The great use of life is to spend it on something that will outlast it.”

– William James

A man without a smiling face
 should not open a shop.”

– Chinese Proverb

To find what you seek in the road of life, leave no stone unturned.”

– Edward Bulwer Lytton

Passion makes perfect.”

– Eugene Biro

Nothing in the world can take the place of persistence.”

– President Calvin Coolidge

The biggest flaw in our existing theory of capitalism lies in its misrepresentation of human nature.”

– Muhammad Yunus

Have the courage to follow your heart and intuition. They somehow know what you truly want to become.”

– Steve Jobs

I find out what the world needs, then I proceed to invent.”

– Thomas Edison

Nurture your mind with great thoughts; to believe in the heroic makes heroes.”

– Benjamin Disraeli

There is only one success – to be able to spend your life in your own way.”

– Christopher Morley

Pretend that every single person you meet has a sign around his or her neck that says, ‘Make Me Feel Important.’ Not only will you succeed in sales, you will succeed in life.”

– Mary Kay Ash

In the middle of difficulty lies opportunity.”

– Albert Einstein

It is not in the stars to hold our destiny but in ourselves.”

– William Shakespeare

If you limit your choices only to what seems possible or reasonable, you disconnect yourself from what you truly want, and all that is left is compromise.”

– Robert Fritz

If your success is not on your own terms, if it looks good to the world but does not feel good in your heart, it is not success at all.”

– Anna Quindlen

Do not follow where the path may lead. Go, instead, where there is no path and leave a trail.”

– Ralph Waldo Emerson

It is not the strongest of the species that survives, nor the most intelligent, but the one most responsive to change.”

– Charles Darwin

That which does not kill us makes us stronger.”

– Friedrich Nietzsche

Inspiration and genius — one and the same.”

– Victor Hugo

Find somebody to be successful for. Raise their hopes. Think of their needs.”

– Barack Obama

Don’t sit down and wait for the opportunities to come. Get up and make them!”

– Madam C.J. Walker

We need to learn to set our course by the stars, not by the lights of every passing ship.”

– General Omar Bradley

What would you attempt to do if you knew you could not fail?”

– Magical

Part of your destiny is to live in the zone of maximum satisfaction.”

– Martha Beck

Spend the afternoon. You can’t take it with you.”

– Annie Dillard

The only person you are destined to become is the person you decide to be.”

– Ralph Waldo Emerson

Destiny is a name often given in retrospect to choices that had dramatic consequences.”

– J.K. Rowling

We need to learn to set our course by the stars, not by the lights of every passing ship.”

– General Omar Bradley

The fixity of a habit is generally in direct proportion to its absurdity.”

– Marcel Proust

Letting go of expectations is a ticket to peace. It allows us to ride over every crisis—small or large—like a beach ball on water.”

– Martha Beck

They who give have all things. They who withhold have nothing.”

– Hindu Proverb

That man is richest whose pleasures are the cheapest.”

– Henry David Thoreau

Promise me you’ll always remember: You’re braver than you believe, and stronger than you seem, and smarter than you think.”

– Christopher Robin to Pooh

No longer talk at all about the kind of man a good man ought to be, but be such.”

– Marcus Aurelius Antoninus

There are children playing in the street who could solve some of my top problems in physics, because they have modes of sensory perception that I lost long ago.”

– J. Robert Oppenheimer

Education is the most powerful weapon which you can use to change the world.”

– Nelson Mandela

If you do work that you love, and the work fulfills you, the rest will come.”

– Oprah Winfrey