When employees are happy, they are your very best ambassadors. — James Sinegal
The employer generally gets the employees he deserves. — Walter Gilbey
The American work ethic is something to be admired. Our workforce, regardless of position, works hard to produce the best product and serve customers to the best of their ability. — Leonard Boswell
A talented entrepreneur with bad habits eventually becomes an employee. An average employee with great habits can eventually become a great entrepreneur. — Patrick Bet-David
You treat people with respect, they tend to return the favor to the company. — Larry Page
If you treat staff as your equal, they'll roll their sleeves up to get the job done. — John Ilhan
Regardless of your ethnicity or anything, if you do great work, people will notice and you'll get hired. — Aziz Ansari
A company's employees are its greatest asset and your people are your product — Richard Branson
Working with great people is one of the best parts of life. — Sam Altman
Go the extra mile. It makes your boss look like an incompetent slacker. — Stephen Hawking
It's a lot easier to do good work when you have good words to say and work with good people. — Mark Harmon
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
You can get pretty damn far by just being someone that people can count on to show up and do the work. — Sahil Bloom
Your employees are your company’s real competitive advantage. They’re the ones making the magic happen-so long as their needs are being met. — Richard Branson
Short Great Employee Quotes
Always treat your employees exactly as you want them to treat your best customers. — Stephen Covey
A really great person is the person who makes every person feel great. — Gilbert K. Chesterton
The greatest ability is dependability. — Bob Jones, Sr.
People of excellence go the extra mile to do what's right. — Joel Osteen
You'll never go wrong when you work with someone smarter than you. — Tibor Kalman
Highly engaged employees make the customer experience. Disengaged employees break it. — Timothy R. Clark
This is the only country in the world where today's employee, is tomorrow's employer. — Marco Rubio
A satisfied customer is the best business strategy of all. — Michael Leboeuf
Treat employees like partners, and they act like partners. — Fred A. Allen
If he works for you, you work for him. — Japanese Proverbs
If there is such a thing as good leadership, it is to give a good example. I have to do so for all the Ikea employees. — Ingvar Kamprad
The honors and rewards fall to those who show their good qualities in action. — Aristotle
Make today so awesome, yesterday gets jealous.
Strategically, a major function of the CEO is to look for bad news and encourage the organization to respond to it. Employees must be encouraged to share bad news as much as good news. — Bill Gates
We have built a very good company, and we're proud of it. We also recognize that much of it has been built on the shoulders of the thousands of employees and leaders who have worked here before us. — Jamie Dimon
I was a terrible employee. I've been fired from almost every job I've ever had, luckily, in a good way, or else I'd be stuck. I would always joke around with everybody, and no one enjoyed my humor. — Anthony Jeselnik
Great minds discuss ideas.Average minds discuss events.Small minds discuss people.
If there’s an employee who looks good on paper, but doesn’t reflect the company’s values, I should let them go sooner rather than later. — Cliff Lerner
I'm lucky that my restaurant partners are my wife Liz and Doug Petkovic. We opened our first restaurant over 15 years ago. And we didn't open up our second restaurant for almost ten years. So that gave us a good foundation of employees. — Michael Symon
Nordstrom's Rules for Employees: Rule # 1: Use your good judgment in all situations There are no additional rules — Unknown
I only wanted to be a good employee who generated as much profit as possible for his employer. I was merely a small cog in the machine - and now I'm suddenly supposedly the main person responsible for the financial crisis. — Jerome Kerviel
Great Person Quotes
... People with great passions, people who accomplish great deeds, people who possess strong feelings, even people with great minds and a strong personality, rarely come out of good little boys and girls. — Lev S. Vygotsky
You are the finest, loveliest, tenderest, and most beautiful person I have ever known—and even that is an understatement. — F. Scott Fitzgerald
I love being married. It's so great to find that one special person you want to annoy for the rest of your life. — Rita Rudner
Not all of us can do great things. But we can do small things with great love.
I don't want to be remembered as a good goalkeeper. I want to be remembered as a great person. — Iker Casillas
True motivation comes from achievement, personal development, job satisfaction, and recognition. — Frederick Herzberg
Imagination is more important than knowledge. Knowledge is limited. Imagination encircles the world. — Albert Einstein
Acknowledge all of your small victories. They will eventually add up to something great.
Good human relations not only bring great personal rewards but are essential to the success of any enterprise. — J. R. D. Tata
The great religions are the ships, Poets the life boats. Every sane person I know has jumped overboard. — Hafez
I have great belief in the fact that whenever there is chaos, it creates wonderful thinking. I consider chaos a gift. — Septima Poinsette Clark
To win in the marketplace you must first win in the workplace. — Douglas Conant
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
You need a little bit of insanity to do great things.
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
The first thing to look for when searching for a great employee is somebody with a personality that fits with your company culture. Most skills can be learned, but it is difficult to train people on their personality. — Richard Branson
I've never invested in any airline. I'm an airline manager. I don't invest in airlines. And I always said to the employees of American, 'This is not an appropriate investment. It's a great place to work and it's a great company that does important work. But airlines are not an investment.' — Robert Crandall
Failure is a great teacher, and, if you are open to it, every mistake has a lesson to offer.
Having ideas and doing them - that's what entrepreneurship comes down to. That's something that makes you not just a great founder who I want to invest in, but also a great employee or someone I want to work with. — Alexis Ohanian
Nordstrom believes that great service begins with showing courtesy to everyone-customers, employees, and vendors. — Robert Spector
The support of organizations including the NY Jets, Canon USA, USA Football, and Outback Steakhouse is a great example of how corporate America can make an impact in bettering the communities where employees work and live. — Boomer Esiason
Great companies create an environment in which employees act like owners. They do this through clear communication, articulation of clear vision and priorities, coaching and openness to debate/discussion. I would argue that this type of environment helps people to be at their best - and helps the company to be at its best. — Robert S. Kaplan
On what high-performing companies should be striving to create: A great place for great people to do great work. — Marilyn C. Nelson
Every leader can get more passion, ingenuity and energy from their people, and every employees wants to feel connected to a great cause. When this works, it really is amazing to see. — Adrian Gostick
Nothing motivates a great employee more than a mission that's so important that it supersedes everyone's personal ambition. — Ben Horowitz
The great irony of executive compensation is, if you pay your employees more, you're gonna create more demand for your goods and services! Which is gonna lead to more executive compensation than if you pay your employees less and try to take all the cream off of the top. — Anthony Scaramucci
When hiring key employees, there are only two qualities to look for: judgement and taste. Almost everything else can be bought by the yard. — John W. Gardner
Great companies connect to the heartstrings of their employees to make their purposes known. — Don Yaeger
The first election in which all South Africans took part was in April, 1994. There were long queues [lines] of employers and employees, black and white. In the sense of Africans, Coloreds and Indians - when I talk about blacks, I mean those three. Blacks and whites mingled to vote without any hitches. Many people would have expected a great deal of tension, clashes and violence, but it did not occur. — Nelson Mandela
Real leaders like Lee Iacocca see vast possibilities and sell their dreams to their companies, their employees, their funding sources, their government and their buying public. — Mark Victor Hansen
When you have chemistry with a potential hire, they will most likely become a great employee. — Barbara Corcoran
Ninety-eight percent of all American companies have fewer than 100 employees. Over half of all Americans work for a small business. Small businesses are the backbone of our nation’s economy and we must protect this great resource.....Helping American small business is part of our movement for change and the end of politics as usual. — Barack Obama
Great people attract great people. The quality of your team can play a big role in employee happiness. — David Niu
I have used the laws of this country just like the greatest people that you read about every day in business have used the laws of this country, the chapter laws, to do a great job for my company, for myself, for my employees, for my family, et cetera. — Donald Trump
What I'm trying to do is to create excitement. So people looking at the Bloomberg's office building say, "My goodness, what's going on here? There's something different about this company." You want the employees to get psyched. And it's a chance to meet each other. My job is to get people to work together. With free food and no offices, even for Bloomberg, this might be considered one of the world's great corporate headquarters. — Michael Bloomberg
One of the great strengths of American culture is this empowerment of individual, is the individual being able to be entrepreneurial, create new things. But you create a whole group of people to make great companies. It's employees and investors and customers and partners. The fabric of society, of a network of relations, is key to being successful. — Reid Hoffman
Albert Murray's The Omni-Americans is the most valuable non-business book because it discusses how you have to draw upon everyone's creativity. America is a mash-up of cultures and traditions, and great businesses know how to tap the strengths of all their employees, whatever their background may be. — Kabir Sehgal
Workers should have a right to sit across from management to collectively bargain about their work conditions, their wages, and the future direction of the company. To me, that's just a humane thing to do. It is unacceptable in the 21st century to have companies not want to do that with their employees and create a great work environment. — Nina Turner
Because it's so empowering, I want people to think about being entrepreneurial regardless. They don't have to start companies, but that's what makes them great employees, that's what makes them great citizens. — Alexis Ohanian
Our belief is that if you get the culture right, most of the other stuff, like great customer service, or building a great long-term brand or empowering passionate employees and customers, will happen on its own. — Tony Hsieh
When you buy bargains and they become better bargains, it is easy to start to question yourself, which can impair your judgement. Real or imagined concerns about client redemptions, employee defections can greatly influence behavior away from rational. — Seth Klarman
As the company grows and about this 25 or so employee size, your main job shifts from building a great product to building a great company. — Sam Altman
Most great companies in tech have been built by personal referrals for the first...at least 100 employees and often many more. — Sam Altman
I do great with Latino voters. I employee so many Latinos, I have so many people working for me, the Latinos love Trump, and I Iove them. — Donald Trump
Shareholder value is the result of you doing a great job, watching your share price go up, your shareholders win, and dividends increasing. What happens when you have increasing shareholder value? You're delivering better employees to their communities and they can give back. Communities are winning because employees are involved in mentoring and all these other things. Customers are winning because you're providing them new products. — Jack Welch
It's great to be able to employ people who other people wouldn't consider viable employees. — Queen Latifah
Developing great employees attracts great customers. — Ron Kaufman
Great fit and synergism for both companies and excellent outcome for employees, customers and shareholders. — Philippe Kahn
I've never quite been a peer of Donald [Trump]. When I knew him it was more in a social way. We were single at kind of the same time. You know having fun in that sense, but I've watched his career with great admiration, and now to really see him as an employee sees him as an aspirant within the corporate structure of the Trump enterprises is really fascinating. — Geraldo Rivera
I've been an employee all my life. Would I wish, if I could rewind it, to have gone down a different route? Possibly, but I've had a great time. Anyway I'm not ruling it out; I could still buy a business. — Stuart Rose
I don't like bonuses for public services employees who do great jobs, like prosecutors or judges. — Trey Gowdy
All institutions have lapses, even great ones, especially by individual rogue employees - famously in recent years at The Washington Post, The New York Times, and the three original TV networks. — Carl Bernstein
When I explain our company values and the foundation to prospective employees, they realize that they have an opportunity to do much more than change the way businesses manage and share information. When you take a workforce of smart, creative, dedicated people and say "take this company time to serve your community, and bring along your coworkers, customers, and partners" great things happen. — Marc Benioff
Before you can have great employees you have to put them in a position to create their own future. — Garrison Wynn
Have you thanked a front-line employee for carrying around a great attitude ... today? — Tom Peters
Geneva is a city where the living conditions and hospitality provided by both the population and authorities of Geneva - at all levels - are exemplary and greatly facilitate the work and daily life of WHO employees. — Margaret Chan
Go Daddy is not just a job; it's a way of life. Our employees work hard, and offering great incentives is fun and productive for the company. — Bob Parsons
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