Employee Quotes

• Treat employees like partners, and they act like partners.

  Fred Allen

  Funny, Business, Humor

  89 Copy quote

• The magic formula that successful businesses have discovered is to treat customers like guests and employees like people.

  Tom Peters

  Inspirational, Business, Educational

  106 Copy quote

• 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

  68 Copy quote

• The people who are doing the work are the moving force behind the Macintosh. My job is to create a space for them, to clear out the rest of the organization and keep it at bay.

  Steve Jobs

  Success, Leadership, Jobs

  31 Copy quote

• The employer generally gets the employees he deserves.

  J. Paul Getty

  Leadership, Wisdom, Business

  66 Copy quote

• 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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• When a manager openly expresses his faith in an employee's skill, he doesn't just improve mood and motivation; he actually improves their likelihood of succeeding.

  Shawn Achor

  Leadership, Motivation, Skills

  8 Copy quote

• 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

  7 Copy quote

• 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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  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

  Leadership, Funny Inspirational, Communication

  118 Copy quote

• 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

  10 Copy quote

• 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

  33 Copy quote

• 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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• 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

  225 Copy quote

• Second, if you're the boss, just because they don't ask doesn't mean your employees don't have needs.

  James Levine

  Mean, Boss, Needs

  9 Copy quote

• Don't organize for any other purpose than mutual benefit to the employer and the employee.

  Mark Hanna

  Mutual Benefit, Purpose, Benefits

  47 Copy quote

• Conducting your business in a socially responsible way is good business. It means that you can attract better employees and that customers will know what you stand for and like you for it

  M. Anthony Burns

  Business, Mean, Way

  47 Copy quote

• 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

  43 Copy quote

• Employee loyalty begins with employer loyalty. Your employees should know that if they do the job they were hired to do with a reasonable amount of competence and efficiency, you will support them.

  Harvey Mackay

  Loyalty, Jobs, Support

  Harvey Mackay (2011). “The Mackay MBA of Selling in the Real World”, p.4, Penguin

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• 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

  Leadership, Business, Ikea

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

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• Despite these hurdles, manufacturers in the U.S. and their employees are doing remarkable work.

  John Engler

  Hurdling Obstacles, Hurdle, Remarkable

  8 Copy quote

• The world has changed, and it's almost been 11 years. I have 975 employees. I have six restaurants. We haven't opened any new ones in almost three years.

  Emeril Lagasse

  Years, Three, World

  8 Copy quote

• If there is to be peace in our industrial life let the employer recognize his obligation to his employees - at least to the degree set forth in existing statutes.

  John L. Lewis

  Degrees, Employers, Obligation

  Labor and the Nation, delivered 3 September 1937 in Washington D.C.

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• Work is accomplished by those employees who have not yet reached their level of incompetence.

  Laurence J. Peter

  Work, Umpires, Levels

  The Peter Principle ch. 1 (1969)

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• We cannot continue. Our pension costs and health care costs for our employees are going to bankrupt this city.

  Michael Bloomberg

  Health, Cities, Cost

  9 Copy quote