Employee Recognition Quotes

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

  Will Durant

  Inspirational, Life, Motivational

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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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• 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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• 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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• We will receive not what we idly wish for but what we justly earn. Our rewards will always be in exact proportion to our service.

  Earl Nightingale

  Night, Achievement, Wish

  Dr. Robert C. Worstell, Dorothea Brande, Claude M. Bristol, Earl Nightingale, Napoleon Hill (2017). “Mindset StackingTM Inspirational Journal VolumeSS01”, p.76, Lulu.com

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• A pat on the back is only a few vertebrae removed from a kick in the pants, but is miles ahead in results.

  Ella Wheeler Wilcox

  Sports, Teamwork, Business

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• There are two things people want more than sex and money - recognition and praise.

  Mary Kay Ash

  Appreciation, Money, Sex

  "The Greatest Management Principle in the World". Book by Michael LeBoeuf, p. 97, 1985.

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• Don't worry when you are not recognized, but strive to be worthy of recognition.

  Abraham Lincoln

  Inspirational, Motivational, Positive

  "Beginnings: A New Perspective: Life Is Not about the Beginning Or the Ending. It is about the Present Moment" by Catherine Zeeb, Xlibris Corporation, (p. 94), May 12, 2010.

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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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• 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

  Appreciation, Giving, Waiting

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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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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• The honors and rewards fall to those who show their good qualities in action.

  Aristotle

  Inspirational, Spiritual, Fall

  "Ethics: The Nicomachean Ethics".

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• There is more hunger for love and appreciation in this world than for bread.

  Mother Teresa

  Love, Relationship, Appreciation

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• Massive potential you have and, in recognition of all this, would you mind having your salary halved.

  Theodore Roosevelt

  Mind, Salary, Recognition

  "Socially Responsible IT Management". Book by Michael Erbschloe (p. 29), 2003.

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• Appraisals are where you get together with your team leader and agree what an outstanding member of the team you are, how much your contribution has been valued, what massive potential you have and, in recognition of all this, would you mind having your salary halved.

  Theodore Roosevelt

  Team, Leader, Mind

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• The first responsibility of a leader is to define reality.

  Max De Pree

  Leadership, Responsibility, Reality

  Max De Pree (1987). “Leadership is an Art”, Doubleday Business

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• Maturity includes the recognition that no one is going to see anything in us that we don't see in ourselves. Stop waiting for a producer. Produce yourself.

  Marianne Williamson

  Inspirational, Maturity, Empowering

  "The Writer's Workout: 366 Tips, Tasks, & Techniques From Your Writing Career Coach". Book by Christina Katz, 2011.

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• Work is not man's punishment. It is his reward and his strength and his pleasure.

  George Sand

  Inspirational, Motivational, Strength

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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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• 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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• Stop waiting for a producer. Produce yourself.

  Marianne Williamson

  Self Esteem, Maturity, Waiting

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• 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

  People, Risk, Ego

  Susan RoAne (1989). “How to Work a Room: Learn the Strategies of Savvy Socializing - for Business and Personal Success”, p.190, SP Books

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