Employee Engagement Quotes

• 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

  Inspirational, Business, Believe

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• 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

  Inspiring, Leadership, Running

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• To win in the marketplace you must first win in the workplace.

  Douglas Conant

  Appreciation, Winning, Top Management

  Twitter post from Oct 03, 2015

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• When people are financially invested, they want a return. When people are emotionally invested, they want to contribute.

  Simon Sinek

  Inspirational, People, Engagement

  Twitter post from Aug 02, 2012

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• Highly engaged employees make the customer experience. Disengaged employees break it.

  Timothy R. Clark

  Inspirational, Engagement, Break

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• Always treat your employees exactly as you want them to treat your best customers.

  Stephen Covey

  Inspirational, Teamwork, Appreciation

  Stephen R. Covey (2016). “The 7 Habits of Highly Effective People: Powerful Lessons in Personal Change Interactive Edition”, p.69, Mango Media Inc.

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• Employee engagement is an investment we make for the privilege of staying in business.

  Ian Hutchinson

  Leadership, Engagement, Privilege

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• Nothing else can quite substitute for a few well-chosen,
  well-timed, sincere words of praise.
  They're absolutely free and worth a fortune

  Sam Walton

  Leadership, Appreciation, Team Building

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• On what high-performing companies should be striving to create: A great place for great people to do great work.

  Marilyn C. Nelson

  Appreciation, People, Engagement

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• Dispirited, unmotivated, unappreciated workers cannot compete in a highly competitive world.

  Frances Hesselbein

  Inspirational, Unmotivated, Engagement

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• The bottom line is down where it belongs - at the bottom.

  Paul Hawken

  Lines, Bottom, Employee

  Paul Hawken (1988). “Growing a Business”, p.21, Simon and Schuster

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• Results are obtained by exploiting opportunities, not by solving problems.

  Peter Drucker

  Appreciation, Business, Opportunity

  Peter Drucker (2013). “People and Performance”, p.102, Routledge

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• 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

  Appreciation, Loss, Numbers

  Paul Hawken (1988). “Growing a Business”, p.21, Simon and Schuster

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• Research indicates that workers 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

  Appreciation, Jobs, Organization

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• 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

  Appreciation, Focus, Engagement

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• Your number one customers are your people. Look after employees first and then customers last.

  Ian Hutchinson

  Inspirational, Numbers, People

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• Everyone enjoys doing the kind of work for which he is best suited.

  Napoleon Hill

  Inspirational, Motivational, Work

  Napoleon Hill (2007). “The Prosperity Bible: The Greatest Writings of All Time on the Secrets to Wealth and Prosperity”, p.108, Penguin

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• 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

  Winning, Cash Flow, Healthy

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• We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence, then, is not an act, but a habit.

  Will Durant

  Inspirational, Life, Motivational

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• Appreciate everything your associates do for the business.

  Sam Walton

  Appreciation, Appreciate, Team Building

  Sam Walton (2012). “Sam Walton: Made In America”, p.315, Bantam

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• Everyone wants to be appreciated, so if you appreciate someone, don't keep it a secret.

  Mary Kay Ash

  Life, Friendship, Thank You

  Mary Kay Ash (1995). “Mary Kay, You Can Have it All: Lifetime Wisdom from America's Foremost Woman Entrepreneur”, Prima Lifestyles

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• You can make more friends in two months by becoming interested in other people than you can in two years by trying to get other people interested in you.

  Dale Carnegie

  Inspirational, Best Friend, Cute

  Dale Carnegie (2012). “The Leader In You”, p.41, Simon and Schuster

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• 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

  Leadership, Encouragement, Appreciation

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• 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

  Running, Appreciation, Believe

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• 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

  Inspirational, Jobs, Organization

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