Employee Team Quotes

#1. I'm honored and excited to be chosen to lead MLSE, a world-class sports and entertainment organization with the major league teams, premier facilities and employee team that rank with the very best across North America and internationally.

Tim Leiweke

#2. You should be able to describe any employee as an animal at what they do.

Sam Altman

#3. Every first time founder waits too long, everyone hopes that an employee will turn around. But the right answer is to fire fast ...

Sam Altman

#4. Employees will only add more value over time.

Sam Altman

#5. Fire fast when it's not working. It's better for the company, it's also better for the employee.

Sam Altman

#6. Companies that I've been very involved with, that have had a very bad first hire in the first 3 or so employees never recover from it ...

Sam Altman

#7. If you talk to say any of the first 40 or 50 employees, they all feel like they were a part of the founding of the company.

Sam Altman

#8. If you define yourself by the title of coach or boss, you'll never earn real trust from your players or employees.

Bill Courtney

#9. Every employee, not just the senior people, should know how a company is doing.

Jack Welch

#10. Great people attract great people. The quality of your team can play a big role in employee happiness.

David Niu

#11. AirBnB spent 5 months interviewing their first employee, before they hired someone and in their first year, they only hired 2 people.

Sam Altman

#12. One thing that founders forget is that after they hire employees, they have to retain them.

Sam Altman

#13. If it annoys you when team members ask about their next promotion or talk about other job opportunities in the industry, you have motivational problems in the making. You need to build a habit of proactively seeking employee interests and suggesting follow-up steps.

Martin Zwilling

#14. Organizations are perfectly designed to get the results that they get.

Stewart Liff

#15. Assigning work projects based on an employee's strengths may be critical to your group's productivity. You may discover you had a Michael Jordan on your team but couldn't see it because you were only asking him to play baseball.

John Medina

#16. Founders are usually very stingy with equity to employees and very generous with equity to investors. I think this is totally backwards.

Sam Altman

#17. Showing leadership doesn't mean every employee will run the organization; that would lead to chaos. Businesses do need someone to set the vision and then lead the team to it.

Robin S. Sharma