Eric Yuan Quotes

A productive employee who is kept busy working at his or her job is far more likely to be happy at that job and less likely to look for employment elsewhere.

I still take way more jobs than I turn down, and the reason that I turn down a job is that I just can't find anything in it that charges me or excites me or challenges me about moving to the next phase of where I'm headed.

You have to be engaged, or else you're not going to want to show up and go to work.

About half the people at Valve have run their own companies, so they always have the option not just to take a job at another game company, but to go start their own company. The question you always have to answer is, 'How are we making these people more valuable than they would be elsewhere?'

For me, my career and passion is InMobi. So I hardly get stressed working for it.

I think it's critical that you feel you're working for a person who is committed to advancing your career.

It's better to grow your employees, steer them into a place that they can learn and succeed, and want to work hard and be loyal, than to have a revolving door of employees. That's demoralizing.

I know a lot of people at some point in their business careers decide they'll just cash in and do something else, but for some reason, I've never had that feeling.

Most corporations have human-resources processes that involve discussions with your manager, performance evaluations, calibrations for performance and potential succession planning.

You have got to attract the brightest and the best, but the brightest and best won't stay unless they see real career options.

No-one works for money alone and tapping into what people want from their careers and what they have to offer is essential.

Money and salary is not a particularly good motivator in the long term.

I'm one of the few adults lucky enough to love their job. And when you've got bills to pay, you get on with it! I like challenges.

People may take a job for more money, but they often leave it for more recognition.

I love my job, but it's more than that: I need it.

I motivate what I see in young people because we employ about forty thousand young people in our various Chick-fil-A units. Some of them come to work because they need to work; others just work because they just like to work. There's nothing wrong with that.

I know people like to work for me, and quite a few have gotten rich working for me.

You have to look at why people come and work at Nest. Part of it is that a lot of people here already know each other, but we're also on a mission with a purpose. People are personally motivated by energy or safety.

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.

After leaving law school, I intentionally said that I never wanted to hold a job more than six years.

It's good to work for someone else. Because then you appreciate it more when you are an entrepreneur.

Any good business is a hobby. We have an integrated company culture, and I can honestly say that many people who come here to work make Yandex a central part of their lives.

I enjoyed the promotion with K9 on my introduction day.

Most employees only want to know how much they get paid and how much time off they get - they probably don't have the mission in their souls.

I want people to concentrate not on my job but on their jobs.