Staff Motivation Quotes

If employees aren't satisfied, they won't promote the product we need.

I'm having fun, and I'm waking up every morning and my staff is waking up every morning looking at each other and saying, 'What can we do today that would be really cool?' I cannot complain about my life.

I live to inspire girls, volunteers, Girl Scout staff and alumni

... Our first priority should be the people who work for the companies, then the customers, then the shareholders. Because if the staff are motivated then the customers will be happy, and the shareholders will then benefit through the company's success.

Good leaders must know how to reward those who succeed and know when to retrain, move, or fire ineffective staff.

The best bosses understand the people working for them. That's the first component: what makes my people tick? What are they in it for?

A motivated manpower is the most important thing.

In crisis times, it's actually not more difficult to motivate your staff, because everyone gets much more focused on how they control their own economic destiny. So, what you do is you have clear communication, which is always a good leadership technique, and you talk about how you can build something good and strong in the future, and how you can work together in order to do that.

On a personal level, I send out about 20 thank-you notes a day to staffers, on all levels. And every six weeks I have lunch with a group of a dozen or so employees, to get their perspective on the business, to address problems and to get feedback.

It's about the production of the work. I need my workers to stay focused.

In crisis times, it's actually not more difficult to motivate your staff, because everyone gets much more focused on how they control their own economic destiny.

Any company trying to compete...must figure out a way to engage the mind of every employee.

Allowing our staff to mix their life with work only makes them more productive and in love with the work that they're doing.

You know what really keeps your staff on their toes? A harpoon gun.

Employers, have you ever stopped to reckon what the goodwill of your workers is worth? ... In most large concerns it would be worth more in dollars and cents to have the goodwill of the working force than of those on the outside. It has been repeatedly demonstrated that the average working force is capable of increasing its production 25% or more whenever the workers fell so inclined. Workers animated by ill will cannot possibly give results equal to those of workers animated by goodwill. The tragic fact appears to be that a tremendous number of working forces are not so animated.

Your employees are your company’s real competitive advantage. They’re the ones making the magic happen-so long as their needs are being met.

If you're good to your staff when things are going well, they'll rally when times go bad.

Have them all shot. I don't want any of my workers dissatisfied.

We must raise the salaries of our operators or they will all be taken from us, that is, all that are good for anything. You will recollect that, at the first meeting of the Board of Directors, I took the ground that 'it was our policy to make the office of operator desirable, to pay operators well and make their situation so agreeable that intelligent men and men of character will seek the place and dread to lose it.' I still think so, and, depend upon it, it is the soundest economy to act on this principle.

I figure that my staff will be less reluctant to work overtime if I work longer hours than they do.

I always tell my staff, "Better is good." I'll take better every time, because better is hard.

Anheuser-Busch gives two free cases of beer to its employees at all of its parks, like Busch Gardens. That's a comforting thought the next time you're getting ready to get on the roller coaster!

I don't want players who don't want to stay.

We expanded primarily for our people - if you don't offer more opportunities, you don't keep good people.

Our assets walk out of the door each evening. We have to make sure that they come back the next morning.