How about the least-controversial and most common advice ever given: “Only hire A players.” Here’s when that doesn’t apply: When you can’t hire A players.
Unless if your company is terrible, the problem will never be that you can't hire A players, it will be that you can't find them fast enough. That said, the compromise in waiting for only A players will appear to be to slow growth. In my opinion, though, the quality of people is so important to an organization's long term success that what will look like a compromise will actually be a tradeoff between short term growth and long term growth.