Quotes About Good Employees

#1. You must fire bad customers just as you would fire a bad employee. If you do not get rid of your bad employees, the good employees will leave. If I do not fire bad customers, not only will my good customers leave but many of my good employees will leave as well.

Robert Kiyosaki

#2. Schools were designed to produce good employees instead of employers

Robert T. Kiyosaki

#3. In the early days, I didn't have the money to pay decent salaries, so I didn't get good people. I got nice people, but I didn't get good employees.

Louise Hay

#4. I don't believe any person looking for work is fearful of political judgment. Government is a large institution, and if they believe that people are going to get rid of good employees for political reasons, that's absurd.

Jan Brewer

#5. Businesses often forget about the culture, and ultimately, they suffer for it because you can't deliver good service from unhappy employees.

Tony Hsieh

#6. In good organizations, leaders are treated with a sense of appreciation and respect by employees; in great organizations, employees are treated with the same esteem by leaders.

Kevin E. Phillips

#7. Employees are your most valuable assets. They are the heart and guts of a company. This doesn't mean that from time to time, you aren't going to do what is good for the company.

Carlos Ghosn

#8. When you are buying companies, everyone in the company feels very good. Their chests are puffed out. At Blackstone, I used to tell people that there is nothing more fun than buying a company with somebody else's money. The business is growing, which creates more opportunity for your employees.

Henry Silverman

#9. Once a few Facebook employees put together a promising idea and start a company, that's very exciting to people. I happen to think being a Facebook employee is really correlated with good ideas.

Dustin Moskovitz

#10. We call it the 'Rule of Crappy People'. Bad managers hire very, very bad employees, because they're threatened by anybody who is anywhere near as good as they are.

Marc Andreessen

#11. 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

#12. Never forget, organizational values start and end with you, the leader. Whether your example is good or bad, expect most employees to follow your lead.

Mac Anderson

#13. 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

#14. the happiest, most passionate employees are not those who followed their passion into a position, but instead those who have been around long enough to become good at what they do. On reflection, this makes sense.

Cal Newport

#15. How do leaders serve their people? They may pay good wages and treat employees with respect.

John C. Maxwell

#16. When you are in business for a long time, you go through good times and bad times. When you go through bad times, you learn to control costs, satisfy customers better, satisfy employees better and become more transparent. Therefore, you build character in the company.

N. R. Narayana Murthy

#17. Because people who aren't good at their jobs don't want to be measured, because then they have to be accountable for something. Great employees love that kind of accountability. They crave it. Poor ones run away from it.

Patrick Lencioni

#18. You'd think an angel who hung around with employees of evil would be a good influence, but at times, he seemed worse than we were.

Richelle Mead

#19. As a leader, you're probably not doing a good job unless your employees can do a good impression of you when you're not around.

Patrick Lencioni

#20. It is very rewarding when you see your employees happy and excited about the success of the company. When you introduce something new, a product in the world that gets really high marks and everyone loves using it and raves about it. You will feel very good about it.

Anousheh Ansari

#21. Snowden was extremely good at digital self-defense. When he was employed by the C.I.A. and N.S.A., one of his jobs was to teach U.S. national security officials and C.I.A. employees how to protect their data in high-threat digital environments.

Luke Harding

#22. Strategically, a major function of the CEO is to look for bad news and encourage the organization to respond to it. Employees must be encouraged to share bad news as much as good news.

Bill Gates

#23. Research indicates that employees 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

#24. 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

#25. I have certain beliefs about how people should treat employees and how companies should be run, but I was really surprised though this process to learn that those beliefs are actually good business.

Adam McKay

#26. I don't really care about being sweet to people who don't look out for their employees interests. You know things like that get you loyal workers, but in your case you wouldn't know a good employee from your ass any day of the week.

Sai Marie Johnson

#27. If I gun down my boss in the carpark after work then he won't be able to terrorise all his other employees and the greater good will have been served.

Rushworth M Kidder

#28. I always encourage employees to feel free to raise any issues that prevent them from getting good work done.

Gwynne Shotwell

#29. The masters and overseers were so good at employee development, in their absence, the employees still achieved the company's mission

Darnell Lamont Walker

#30. Take good care of your employees, and they'll take good care of your customers, and the customers will come back.

J. Willard Marriott

#31. A good manager will always have the big picture in mind and guide the employees through a series of small targets in order to achieve overall success.

Abhishek Ratna

#32. Paying your employees well is not only the right thing to do but it makes for good business.

James Sinegal

#33. Just about anyone can make a good product, but it's the people that count. In the end, it's the employees who will take it from a kitchen-table idea to the next level. There are a lot of important things in business, but the people portion comes first.

Hamdi Ulukaya

#34. Good management has considerable impact on engagement levels of the employees and drives them towards excellent performances.

Abhishek Ratna

#35. 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

#36. Good wages are pro business, since they reduce turnover, increase morale, produce better-skilled employees, and improve productivity.

Jim Hightower

#37. We have built a very good company, and we're proud of it. We also recognize that much of it has been built on the shoulders of the thousands of employees and leaders who have worked here before us.

Jamie Dimon

#38. 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

#39. The goal should be to build a sustainable lifestyle business that does good for employees and customers - and that steadily builds wealth.

Vivek Wadhwa

#40. The most valuable lesson I learned in dealing with the ups and downs was to invest in my employees - to do all I could for them when the times were good.

Vivek Wadhwa

#41. Allow your team to incorporate giving into their life through their job. Not only do employees stay around a lot longer, they do a lot more good.

Blake Mycoskie