Joe McNally Quotes

If your employees are not happy, nothing else at your company will go well.

If you believe, as I do, that your employees truly are your most valuable asset, you will do whatever you can to help them do their jobs as well as possible.

The idea of investing in the positivity of employees is often low down on companies' priority lists.

I think Amazon is a place where people don't want to work.

People don't value strongly enough how much time they spend in the office. Imagine you could work with people you love - wouldn't work be great and staff turnover be lower? And your productivity higher?

Our employees chose SK on belief that they will be happier working here and that the company will make the society happier.

Happy employees build great products, and they take care of customers.

I'm a big believer that if you're happy and your employees are happy, your customers are going to be happy. If you're unhappy and your employees are unhappy, there's no way your customers are going to be happy.

We want to keep the company healthy and its employees happy, and we want to keep them on the job and productive.

Motivation, basically getting people to be happy at work, everybody - everybody benefits.

In leading-edge companies like Google and Apple, workers are given much freedom and opportunity to play. They know that's an important component of creating new and better products. I believe that at whatever level of work, cashier at a supermarket, janitor at an airport, aide in a cubicle, the addition of a playful attitude makes the job better and the work more enjoyable. A cashier or janitor who smiles and is friendly gets a better response than a surly one.

Treat your employees like customers.

Taking care of your employees is extremely important and very, very visible.

As a modern employer you have to treat people well.

We must make working life more human.

Quality has always been the overriding factor for us. But you also have to have happy people working for you.

If I can surround myself with hilarious people every day, I will always want to go to work.

The prevailing system of management has crushed fun out of the workplace.

Treat employees like partners, and they act like partners.

Positive and engaged brains are a company's greatest assets. More than time and even more than productivity, people must be happy.

If the only reason people are coming in and doing anything in your office is because you're giving them a paycheck, I'm not sure you have the most productive workplace there.

I've been asked a number of times what was my proudest accomplishment when I was still very active in the day-to-day affairs of Southwest Airlines. I always said job security for our people.

The majority of our happiness at work is determined by the people who surround us. Strong teams produce more content, launch more products, and sign more contracts. And most importantly, they have fun doing it.

Ultimately, this is about having fun at work. You want to enjoy your job. You're going to have higher-performing employees.

Where people work and their environment is becoming more and more important, especially for millennials.