To win in the marketplace you must first win in the workplace.
— Douglas Conant
Valuable Employee Appreciation quotations
It is up to us to give ourselves recognition.
If we wait for it to come from others, we feel resentful when it doesn't, and when it does, we may well reject it.
I consider my ability to arouse enthusiasm among men the greatest asset I possess. The way to develop the best that is in a man is by appreciation and encouragement.
The way you treat your employees is the way they will treat your customers
There is more hunger for love and appreciation in this world than for bread.
Results are obtained by exploiting opportunities, not by solving problems.
The honors and rewards fall to those who show their good qualities in action.
We nourish the bodies of our children and friends and employees, but how seldom do we nourish their selfesteem? We provide them with roast beef and potatoes to build energy, but we neglect to give them kind words of appreciation that would sing in their memories for years like the music of the morning stars.
(A manager) once confided in me she liked to picture in her mind's eye that every employee was wearing one of those sandwich billboard signs. On the front side, the sign would read 'Appreciate Me' and on the back side 'Make Me Feel Important.'
Business and human endeavors are systems.
..we tend to focus on snapshots of isolated parts of the system. And wonder why our deepest problems never get solved.
When someone comes along who genuinely thanks us, we will follow that person a very long way.
Stop waiting for a producer. Produce yourself.
On what high-performing companies should be striving to create: A great place for great people to do great work.
If you work in an urgent-only culture, the only solution is to make the right things urgent.
The bottom line is down where it belongs – at the bottom.
Far above it in importance are the infinite number of events that produce the profit or loss.
There are only three measurements that tell you nearly everything you need to know about your organization's overall performance: employee engagement, customer satisfaction, and cash flow...It goes without saying that no company, small or large, can win over the long run without energized employees who believe in the mission and understand how to achieve it.
Take time to appreciate employees and they will reciprocate in a thousand ways.
I don't know about you, but I've saved cards that old high school flames wrote me as well as those that employees have written me over the years. The power of genuine, customized appreciation will never lose its value, even in a gloomy economy... in fact, it's probably what we're all thirsty for in this desert of a depression.
