Employees Come First Quotes

#1. If the employees come first, then they're happy. A motivated employee treats the customer well. The customer is happy so they keep coming back, which pleases the shareholders. It's not one of the enduring green mysteries of all time, it is just the way it works.

Herb Kelleher

#2. Clients do not come first. Employees come first. If you take care of your employees, they will take care of the clients.

Richard Branson

#3. Your employees come first. And if you treat your employees right, guess what? Your customers come back, and that makes your shareholders happy. Start with employees and the rest follows from that.

Herb Kelleher

#4. If you're constantly making business decisions on behalf of your investors first, ultimately you're going to wear down your other stakeholders. It's going to be potentially hurtful for your employees and your customers and the community you do business with.

Danny Meyer

#5. At the height of the first great dot-com boom, Craig Kanarick, then in his early 30s, was running Razorfish, a Web design firm he'd co-founded with an old friend, which at its peak had 2,300 employees in nine countries.

David Sax

#6. through self-selection or the firm's edict. Depending on the year and the firm, this could be between 5% and 15% of employees. Although compensation generally does not vary much during the first

David Stowell

#7. You want to think about what is the path for my first 10 or 15 employees going to be as the company grows.

Sam Altman

#8. Which do you want to be: a proficient manager or a Leader of Character? The first creates compliant employees. The second leads committed followers!

Dave Anderson

#9. Ensure your employees understand what your brand stands for so they can be your first line of word-of-mouth advertising.

Simon Mainwaring

#10. I think as a rough estimate, you should aim to give about 10% of the company to the first 10 employees.

Sam Altman

#11. A company invites their employees to sign up for a plan where every time they get a raise, some part of that raise goes to increasing their contribution rate to the 401k plan. In the first company we convinced to adopt this plan, saving rates tripled.

Richard Thaler

#12. She always set three alarms for fear that the first employees to arrive would discover her sleeping - a Goldilocks without her bears

Billie Letts

#13. 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

#14. Cops, more than firefighters, EMTs or other public safety employees, almost always get the first glance of the human condition at the worst, most lethal moments; nobody calls a cop with good news.

Mike Barnicle

#15. 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

#16. became one of the first fifty employees at Atari, working as a technician for $5 an hour. "In retrospect, it was

Walter Isaacson

#17. The eight-acre underground was so sprawling that for months after the park first opened, guides had to be stationed in the tunnels to redirect lost employees. Soon after, the tunnel walls were color-coded by land and maps were posted at each intersection to help newcomers find their way.

David Koenig

#18. Most great companies in tech have been built by personal referrals for the first ... at least 100 employees and often many more.

Sam Altman

#19. You get paid for the seven and a half hours a day you put in here," Kelly often told new Bell Labs employees in his speech to them on their first day, "but you get your raises and promotions on what you do in the other sixteen and a half hours.

Jon Gertner

#20. Somebody once said that in looking for people to hire, you look for three qualities: integrity, intelligence, and energy. And if you don't have the first, the other two will kill you. You think about it; it's true. If you hire somebody without [integrity], you really want them to be dumb and lazy.

Warren Buffett

#21. Don't wait for your employees to seek you out. Choose to be assertive and go to them first.

Barry Banther

#22. From the very first time I talked to Safeco employees, I said the reality was expenses were too high and the reality is two-thirds of our expenses are people, so the reality is there will be effects on people.

Mike McGavick

#23. You cannot create employees without first creating employers.

Jack Kemp

#24. The first thing that has to be recognized is that one cannot train someone to be passionate
it's either in their DNA or it's not.

Richard Branson

#25. Customers will never love a company until the employees love it first.

Simon Sinek

#26. Who comes first? Don't be silly, says King Hal; it's employees. That is - and this dear Watson, is elementary - if you genuinely want to put customers first, you must put employees more first.

Tom Peters

#27. Everyone talks about building a relationship with your customer. I think you build one with your employees first.

Angela Ahrendts

#28. He remembered the Professor's advice to his eager employees during his first year: With us, feelings are described through images, and in the world of television, there are only seven feelings: well-being, Schadenfreude, sentimentality, shock, outrage, disgust, and anger. Nothing else.

Erik Valeur

#29. As one of the first employees at a small cellular phone start-up called Nextel, I gained firsthand experience in how a business grows from an idea to a company that, at its peak, employed many thousands.

Jack Markell

#30. For a company to excel, employees must be reassured that self-interest, not the company's, is their foremost priority. We believe an employee who puts himself first will be motivated to perform.

Ricardo Semler

#31. I did the first HBO special ever in 1975 at Haverford College. Cable was new then: HBO was a Time-Life entity, with maybe 400,000 or 500,000 subscribers and maybe 50 employees.

Robert Klein

#32. Typically, my eighteen-month plan sets goals on two fronts. First and most important, I set targets for what my team can accomplish. Employees who concentrate on results and impact are the most valuable - like

Sheryl Sandberg

#33. With my employees, if something is wrong and we can figure it out, okay, otherwise goodbye. Your employees are part of your success, so you have to share that, but the guests and the atmosphere have to be happy first.

Julie King

#34. 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

#35. Customers first, employees second, and shareholders third,

Jack Ma

#36. At Brit + Co, our mission is to unlock creativity, so we look for future employees that actively flex their creative muscles. The design of your resume is the first way to let me know more about your aesthetic.

Brit Morin