87 Employee Engagement Quotes
Following is our list of employee engagement quotations and slogans full of insightful wisdom and perspective about motivate employees.
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Engaged Employee Engagement Quotes
When people are financially invested, they want a return. When people are emotionally invested, they want to contribute. — Simon Sinek
To win in the marketplace you must first win in the workplace. — Douglas Conant
Today, no leader can afford to be indifferent to the challenge of engaging employees in the work of creating the future. Engagement may have been optional in the past, but its pretty much the whole game today. — Gary Hamel
Connect the dots between individual roles and the goals of the organization. When people see that connection, they get a lot of energy out of work. They feel the importance, dignity, and meaning in their job. — Ken Blanchard
Your number one customers are your people. Look after employees first and then customers last. — Ian Hutchinson
Highly engaged employees make the customer experience. Disengaged employees break it. — Timothy R. Clark
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. — Charles R. Schwab
Results are obtained by exploiting opportunities, not by solving problems. — Peter Drucker
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. — Jack Welch
Always treat your employees exactly as you want them to treat your best customers. — Stephen Covey
Motivate Employees Quotes
Start with good people, lay out the rules, communicate with your employees, motivate them and reward them. If you do all those things effectively, you can't miss. — Lee Iacocca
I learned early on that if you take care of your employees, they will take care of your customers, and the business will take care of itself. — Glen Bell
Show me an organization in which employees take ownership, and I will show you one that beats its competitors. — Michael Abrashoff
Everything you've ever wanted is on the other side of fear. — George Adair
If your employees are not happy, nothing else at your company will go well. — Eric Yuan
In order to attract and keep superior staff, I paid wages and bonuses well above the market rate. This actually saved money because my employees were far more productive than average. — Edward O. Thorp
If the employees come first, then they're happy. A motivated employee treats the customer well. The customer is happy so they keep coming back, which pleases the shareholders. It's not one of the enduring green mysteries of all time, it is just the way it works. — Herb Kelleher
Employees who are controlled cannot respond caringly, you need superior knowledge and real leadership, not management. Because of this we specifically developed a selection process for leaders; we don't hire managers. — Horst Schulze
For a company to excel, employees must be reassured that self-interest, not the company's, is their foremost priority. We believe an employee who puts himself first will be motivated to perform. — Ricardo Semler
The basic idea that incentives can be used to motivate behavior is a powerful one. It works for employees, and it has a clear place in parenting, as anyone who has tried to potty-train a recalcitrant toddler with sticker rewards knows. — Emily Oster
Employee Appreciation Quotes
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. — Spencer Tracy
The way you treat your employees is the way they will treat your customers — Richard Branson
There is more hunger for love and appreciation in this world than for bread. — Mother Teresa
The honors and rewards fall to those who show their good qualities in action. — Aristotle
(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.' — James Hunter
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. — Peter Senge
When someone comes along who genuinely thanks us, we will follow that person a very long way. — Alan Loy McGinnis
Stop waiting for a producer. Produce yourself. — Marianne Williamson
On what high-performing companies should be striving to create: A great place for great people to do great work. — Marilyn C. Nelson
If you work in an urgent-only culture, the only solution is to make the right things urgent. — Seth Godin
Employee Recognition Quotes
Massive potential you have and, in recognition of all this, would you mind having your salary halved. — Theodore Roosevelt
The rewards go to the risk-takers, those who are willing to put their egos on the line and reach out to other people and to a richer, fuller life for themselves. — Susan RoAne
Employees who report receiving recognition and praise within the last seven days show increased productivity, get higher scores from customers, and have better safety records. They're just more engaged at work. — Tom Rath
Research indicates that employees have three prime needs: Interesting work, recognition for doing a good job, and being let in on things that are going on in the company. — Zig Ziglar
Recognition is powerful, as long as it's authentic and specific. Whatever their level on the inverted pyramid, employees wants to feel needed and valued. — Robert Spector
A boss wants to pay for results, an employee wants recognition for effort. If a boss recognizes effort, they will get even better results. — Simon Sinek
Employee Productivity Quotes
Shareholder value is a result, not a strategy . . . Your main constituencies are your employees, your customers and your products. — Jack Welch
Employees who believe that management is concerned about them as a whole person - not just an employee - are more productive, more satisfied, more fulfilled. Satisfied employees mean satisfied customers, which leads to profitability. — Anne M. Mulcahy
We would rather have our employees running our business. — James Sinegal
We also started asking all new employees to build an app using Twilio—not just the developers, everybody. — Jeff Lawson
Understanding your employee's perspective can go a long way towards increasing productivity and happiness. — Kathryn Minshew
When I think of organizations, I think of the capabilities an organization has more than its morphology or structure. The ability of an organization to have a shared purpose and the ability for employees to be productive are critical capabilities for most organizations today. — Dave Ulrich
Learn to sell. In business you’re always selling: to your prospects, investors and employees. To be the best salesperson put yourself in the shoes of the person to whom you’re selling. Don’t sell your product. Solve their problems. — Sayings
A company's employees are its greatest asset and your people are your product — Richard Branson
When companies offer support and assistance for personal and family hardships, their employees become more loyal and more productive. — Sheryl Sandberg
The talented employee may join a company because of its charismatic leaders, its generous benefits, and its world-class training programs, but how long that employee stays and how productive he is while he is there is determined by his relationship with his immediate supervisor. — Marcus Buckingham
More Employee Engagement Quotes
When people are financially invested, they want a return. When people are emotionally invested, they want to contribute. — Simon Sinek
To win in the marketplace you must first win in the workplace. — Douglas Conant
Today, no leader can afford to be indifferent to the challenge of engaging employees in the work of creating the future. Engagement may have been optional in the past, but its pretty much the whole game today. — Gary Hamel
Connect the dots between individual roles and the goals of the organization. When people see that connection, they get a lot of energy out of work. They feel the importance, dignity, and meaning in their job. — Ken Blanchard
Your number one customers are your people. Look after employees first and then customers last. — Ian Hutchinson
Highly engaged employees make the customer experience. Disengaged employees break it. — Timothy R. Clark
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. — Charles R. Schwab
Results are obtained by exploiting opportunities, not by solving problems. — Peter Drucker
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. — Jack Welch
Always treat your employees exactly as you want them to treat your best customers. — Stephen Covey
Dispirited, unmotivated, unappreciated workers cannot compete in a highly competitive world. — Frances Hesselbein
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. — Peter Senge
By depriving the charged person of any defenses [the rulings] mean that sexual dalliance, however voluntarily engaged in, becomes harassment whenever an employee sees fit, after the fact, so to characterize it. — Robert Bork
The bottom line is down where it belongs - at the bottom. — Paul Hawken
Employees who report receiving recognition and praise within the last seven days show increased productivity, get higher scores from customers, and have better safety records. They're just more engaged at work. — Tom Rath
Employee engagement is an investment we make for the privilege of staying in business. — Ian Hutchinson
Without doubt, there are lots of ways to measure the pulse of a business. But if you have employee engagement, customer satisfaction, and cash flow right, you can be sure your company is healthy and on the way to winning. — Jack Welch
When employers no longer offer secure full-time employment with benefits, then it's hard to expect employees to be loyal, engaged, and maximally productive. — Stewart D. Friedman
I am a political animal, because for God's sakes I think "We The People" is a job. I think experienced self government demands on all levels - intellectual, moral, historical, and spiritual level. We are supposed to be engaged and give directions to our elected employees. — Ted Nugent
On what high-performing companies should be striving to create: A great place for great people to do great work. — Marilyn C. Nelson
If you work in an urgent-only culture, the only solution is to make the right things urgent. — Seth Godin
Engaging in social business is beneficial to a company because it leverages on business competencies to address social issues, involves one-time investment with sustainable results, and produces other positive effects such as employee motivation and improved organizational culture. — Muhammad Yunus
The principles that apply to engagement for employees are the same as those that apply to supervisors. — Stewart D. Friedman
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. — Paul Hawken
Without a compelling cause, our employees are just putting in time. Their minds might be engaged, but their hearts are not. Meaning precedes motivation. — Lee J. Colan
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. — Jack Welch
No organization is going to be successful unless it places a high value on its employees and engages them in the work that it's doing. — Mary Burke
You can have very big local government. By big, I mean very engaged government. Do you measure it in terms of the number of laws? Number of employees? You could make arguments for either one. I tend to think the axis of the size of government is the wrong concern. But I do think that situating power more locally is a legitimate approach. — Zephyr Teachout
I find that when you lead with vision and values, engaging employees and showing them that values are just as important as profits, everyone comes on board. And not only do they come on board, but they connect to their own individual creativity. — Shari Arison
Having a higher purpose is more than just about profits. You actually end up making more profits in the long run because employees really are a lot more engaged and customers see the higher purpose in the company. — Tony Hsieh
Unless you are building a new company from the ground up and can install caring as your businesses' cornerstone, you have to be willing to embark on a completely cultural overhaul so that, like a local mom and pop shop, every employee is comfortable engaging in customer service, and does it authentically. — Gary Vaynerchuk
Modern Australian trade unionism and the unionist that I am doesn't rely on a class war view that somehow that the interests of employees and managers are in two separate spheres and they're irreconcilable. I believe that when people can go to work and be happy, satisfied, engaged, where the employer is getting employees who feel their interests are aligned with the employer, you get productivity. This is the future of Australian workplaces. — Bill Shorten
Profits are related to customer retention. Customer retention is related to employee retention. Employee retention may or may not be related to benefits, but benefits could be part of the package that causes people to stay and -- by the way -- engage in discretionary effort. .. If you go into any organization that's customer-facing, you can tell in five minutes when the employees are feeling abused. They retaliate on the customers. — Jeffrey Pfeffer
Many priests and employees at temples work for pay. No one should judge religion on the basis of the shortcomings of such workers. We should frame suitable rules and regulations for preventing them from falling prey to material temptations. The true guiding spirits of religion are those who engage in selfless service while dedicating their entire lives to attaining the vision of God. — Mata Amritanandamayi
Any company trying to compete...must figure out a way to engage the mind of every employee. — Jack Welch
A long time ago I discovered that when employees are passionate about their work, customers are passionate about the company. Kevin Sheridan knows that secret too. His insights on finding the right people and getting them engaged can change your culture forever. — Quint Studer
You'll attract the employees you need if you can explain why your mission is compelling: not why it's important in general, but why you're doing something important that no one else is going to get done. — Peter Thiel
It isn't effective or productive to force your employees to do anything. Choice empowers people and makes for a more content workforce. — Richard Branson
Studies show that a trusting workplace increases employees' level of happiness, work effort, productivity, and engagement. It also provides an environment that encourages open communication and promotes people to share their ideas. — Arthur Miller
...how engaged are your employees right now? You may consider such a question impossible to answer, but the truth is, you need to know this if you want a more profitable, ethical organization, as everyone must share the same values to make the changes genuine — Jim Craig
The schoolmaster is the person who takes the children off the parents' hands for a consideration. That is to say, he establishes a child prison, engages a number of employee schoolmasters as turnkeys, and covers up the essential cruelty and unnaturalness of the situation by torturing the children if they do not learn, and calling this process, which is within the capacity of any fool or blackguard, by the sacred name of Teaching. — George Bernard Shaw
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