Employee Inspirational Quotes:

The price of success is hard work, dedication to the job at hand, and the determination that whether we win or lose, we have applied the best of ourselves to the task at hand.

- Vince Lombardi

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

topic: Inspirational, Motivational, Perseverance, Best Of Me, Best Coaches

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

topic: Running, Appreciation, Believe, Motivate Employees, Drive And Success

It is not the employer who pays the wages. Employers only handle the money. It is the customer who pays the wages.

- Henry Ford

topic: Inspirational, Loyalty, Money, Customer Experience, Inspirational Money

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

- Will Durant

topic: Inspirational, Life, Motivational, Daily Work, Top Management

Don't judge each day by the harvest you reap but by the seeds that you plant.

- Robert Louis Stevenson

topic: Inspirational, Life, Motivational, Interesting Life, Planting Seeds

Nobody cares how much you know, until they know how much you care.

- Theodore Roosevelt

source: Theodore Roosevelt (2015). “Theodore Roosevelt on Bravery: Lessons from the Most Courageous Leader of the Twentieth Century”, p.5, Skyhorse Publishing, Inc.

topic: Motivational, Inspiring, Leadership, Nobody Cares, Inspirational Coach

The future belongs to those who believe in the beauty of their dreams.

- Eleanor Roosevelt

topic: Inspirational, Change, Positive, Impossible Dream, Pursue Your Dreams

Everyone enjoys doing the kind of work for which he is best suited.

- Napoleon Hill

topic: Motivational, Work, Kind, Employee Engagement, Employee Inspirational

Your most unhappy customers are your greatest source of learning.

- Bill Gates

topic: Leadership, Motivation, Business, Young Entrepreneurs, Business Life

Opportunity is missed by most people because it is dressed in overalls and looks like work.

- Thomas A. Edison

source: "An Enemy Called Average". Book by John L. Mason, 1990.

topic: Funny, Life, Motivational, Make Me Feel Better, Makin Money

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

topic: Appreciation, Jobs, Interesting, Motivate Employees, Employee Appreciation

Highly engaged employees make the customer experience. Disengaged employees break it.

- Timothy R. Clark

topic: Break, Employee, Customer Experience, Motivate Employees, Employee Engagement

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

topic: Leadership, Praise, Sincere, Inspiring Business, Leadership Teamwork

Do what you do so well that those who see you do what you do are going to come back to see you do it again and tell others that they should see you do what you do.

- Walt Disney

topic: Should, Wells, Customer Experience, Inspirational Service, Service Business

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

topic: Believe, Inspiration, Mean, Whole Person, Employee Engagement

The goal as a company is to have customer service that is not just the best, but legendary.

- Sam Walton

topic: Business, Goal, Legendary, Inspirational Service, Inspiring Customer Service

Appreciate everything your associates do for the business.

- Sam Walton

source: Sam Walton (2012). “Sam Walton: Made In America”, p.315, Bantam

topic: Appreciation, Appreciate, Team Building, Inspiring Business, Walmart

Make your product easier to buy than your competition, or you will find your customers buying from them, not you.

- Mark Cuban

source: Mark Cuban (2011). “How to Win at the Sport of Business: If I Can Do It, You Can Do It”, p.81, Diversion Books

topic: Business, Educational, Competition, Young Entrepreneurs, Customer Experience

Business and human endeavors are systems...we tend to focus on snapshots of isolated parts of the system. And wonder why our deepest problems never get solved.

- Peter Senge

topic: Appreciation, Focus, Snapshots, Learning Organization, Systems Thinking

Every company's greatest assets are its customers, because without customers there is no company.

- Michael LeBoeuf

topic: Inspirational, Loyalty, Business, Inspirational Service, Loyalty In Business

Your number one customers are your people. Look after employees first and then customers last.

- Ian Hutchinson

topic: Numbers, People, Looks, Employee Engagement, Employee Inspirational

Connect the dots between individual roles and the goals of the organization. When people see that connection, they get a lot of energy out of work. They feel the importance, dignity, and meaning in their job.

- Ken Blanchard

topic: Jobs, Organization, People, Employee Engagement, Employee Inspirational

We see our customers as invited guests to a party, and we are the hosts. It's our job every day to make every important aspect of the customer experience a little bit better.

- Jeff Bezos

topic: Success, Jobs, Business, Job Satisfaction, Customer Experience

Your work is going to fill a large part of your life, and the only way to be truly satisfied is to do what you believe is great work. And the only way to do great work is to love what you do. If you haven't found it yet, keep looking. Don't settle. As with all matters of the heart, you'll know when you find it.

- Steve Jobs

source: Commencement Address at Stanford University, delivered 12 June 2005, Palo Alto, CA

topic: Love, Inspirational, Life, Daily Work, Way In Life

Dispirited, unmotivated, unappreciated workers cannot compete in a highly competitive world.

- Frances Hesselbein

topic: Unmotivated, World, Employee, Employee Engagement, Employee Inspirational

The complaining customer represents a huge opportunity for more business.

- Zig Ziglar

topic: Opportunity, Complaining, Customer Experience, Inspiring Business, Inspirational Service

To win in the marketplace you must first win in the workplace.

- Douglas Conant

source: Twitter post from Oct 03, 2015

topic: Appreciation, Winning, Firsts, Top Management, Motivate Employees

On what high-performing companies should be striving to create: A great place for great people to do great work.

- Marilyn C. Nelson

topic: Appreciation, People, Strive, Employee Engagement, Employee Inspirational

When people are financially invested, they want a return. When people are emotionally invested, they want to contribute.

- Simon Sinek

topic: People, Return, Want, Employee Engagement, Employee Inspirational

Always treat your employees exactly as you want them to treat your best customers. You can buy a person's hand, but you can't buy his heart; his heart is where his enthusiasm is. You can buy his back, but you can't buy his brain. That's where his creativity is. Treat employees as volunteers just as you treat customers as volunteers, because that's what they are. They volunteer the best parts - their hearts and minds.

- Stephen Covey

topic: Creativity, Heart, Hands, Top Management, Motivate Employees

You can make more friends in two months by becoming interested in other people than you can in two years by trying to get other people interested in you.

- Dale Carnegie

source: Dale Carnegie (2012). “The Leader In You”, p.41, Simon and Schuster

topic: Inspirational, Cute, Friendship, Making Friends, Influencing People

Statistics suggest that when customers complain, business owners and managers ought to get excited about it. The complaining customer represents a huge opportunity for more business.

- Zig Ziglar

source: "Smarter Branding Without Breaking the Bank: Five Proven Marketing Strategies You Can Use Right Now to Build Your Business at Little Or No Cost". Book by Brenda Bence (p. 91), November 7, 2011.

topic: Loyalty, Business, Educational, Customer Experience, Inspiring Business

If you do build a great experience, customers tell each other about that. Word of mouth is very powerful.

- Jeff Bezos

source: "Online Extra: Jeff Bezos on Word-of-Mouth Power". Interview with Robert D. Hof, www.bloomberg.com. August 2, 2004.

topic: Inspirational, Motivational, Inspiring, Customer Experience, Call Center

Are you bored with life? Then throw yourself into some work you believe in with all your heart, live for it, die for it, and you will find happiness that you had thought could never be yours.

- Dale Carnegie

topic: Inspirational, Life, Motivational, Being Bored, Motivate Employees

There is only one boss. The customer. And he can fire everybody in the company from the chairman on down, simply by spending his money somewhere else.

- Sam Walton

source: "2010 BPM and Workflow Handbook" by Layna Fischer, Future Strategies Inc., (p. 178), 2010.

topic: Inspirational, Business, Work, Customer Experience, Inspirational Customer Service

If you think and achieve as a team, the individual accolades will take care of themselves. Talent wins games, but teamwork and intelligence win championships.

- Michael Jordan

source: Michael Jordan (1994). “I can't accept not trying: Michael Jordan on the pursuit of excellence”

topic: Teamwork, Winning, Thinking, Individual Goals, Individual Performance

If you work just for money, you'll never make it, but if you love what you're doing and you always put the customer first, success will be yours.

- Ray Kroc

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

topic: Inspiring, Success, Motivation, Marketing And Sales, Job Satisfaction

A customer is the most important visitor on our premises. He is not dependent on us. We are dependent on him. He is not an interruption in our work. He is the purpose of it. He is not an outsider in our business. He is part of it. We are not doing him a favor by serving him. He is doing us a favor by giving us an opportunity to do so.

- Mahatma Gandhi

topic: Leadership, Spiritual, Educational, Customer Experience, Call Center

You manage things, you lead people. We went overboard on management and forgot about leadership.

- Grace Hopper

source: "The Wit and Wisdom of Grace Hopper". The OCLC Newsletter, No. 167, www.cs.yale.edu. March/April 1987.

topic: People, Management, Overboard, Managing People, Inspiring Leader

In looking for people to hire, look for three qualities: integrity, intelligence and energy. And if they don't have the first, the other two will kill you.

- Warren Buffett

topic: Inspirational, Motivational, Education, Knowledge Of The World, Integrity And Character

Customers don't expect you to be perfect. They do expect you to fix things when they go wrong.

- Don Porter

topic: Business, Perfect, Customer Experience, Inspirational Customer Service, Inspiring Customer Service