Great Employee Quotes:

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

The first thing to look for when searching for a great employee is somebody with a personality that fits with your company culture. Most skills can be learned, but it is difficult to train people on their personality.

- Richard Branson

source: "How to Win by Throwing out the Traditional Hiring Playbook" by Sean McNamara, www.huffingtonpost.com. July 11, 2014.

topic: Fun, Caring, Helping Others, Company Culture, Great Employee

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

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

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

Success consists of going from failure to failure without loss of enthusiasm.

- Winston Churchill

topic: Inspirational, Life, Motivational, Daily Work, Going To College

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

topic: Leadership, Funny Inspirational, Communication, Great Employee

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

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

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

Your most unhappy customers are your greatest source of learning.

- Bill Gates

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

Everyone wants to be appreciated, so if you appreciate someone, don't keep it a secret.

- Mary Kay Ash

source: Mary Kay Ash (1995). “Mary Kay, You Can Have it All: Lifetime Wisdom from America's Foremost Woman Entrepreneur”, Prima Lifestyles

topic: Life, Friendship, Thank You, Employee Engagement, Employee Recognition

Choose a job you love, and you will never have to work a day in your life.

- Confucius

topic: Love, Inspirational, Life, Daily Work, Young Entrepreneurs

I consider my ability to arouse enthusiasm among men the greatest asset I possess. The way to develop the best that is in a man is by appreciation and encouragement.

- Charles R. Schwab

topic: Leadership, Encouragement, Appreciation, Love And Appreciation, Employee Appreciation

Choose a career you love and you will never have to go to work.

- Denis Waitley

topic: Careers, Inspirational Determination, Inspirational Father, Inspirational Hard Work, Inspirational Passion

Nothing motivates a great employee more than a mission that's so important that it supersedes everyone's personal ambition.

- Ben Horowitz

source: "Every Executive In Your Company Should Have This Kind Of Ambition" by Ben Horowitz, www.businessinsider.com. August 30, 2010.

topic: Ambition, Important, Missions, Great Employee

Developing great employees attracts great customers.

- Ron Kaufman

topic: Service Culture, Employee, Customers, Great Employee

When you have chemistry with a potential hire, they will most likely become a great employee.

- Barbara Corcoran

topic: Chemistry, Employee, Great Employee

Having ideas and doing them - that's what entrepreneurship comes down to. That's something that makes you not just a great founder who I want to invest in, but also a great employee or someone I want to work with.

- Alexis Ohanian

source: Source: thetartan.org

topic: Ideas, Want, Entrepreneurship, Great Employee

Because it's so empowering, I want people to think about being entrepreneurial regardless. They don't have to start companies, but that's what makes them great employees, that's what makes them great citizens.

- Alexis Ohanian

source: Source: thetartan.org

topic: Thinking, People, Empowering, Great Employee

Before you can have great employees you have to put them in a position to create their own future.

- Garrison Wynn

topic: Employee, Position, Great Employee