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20 best quotes on employee engagement and leadership
- “We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence then, is not an act, but a habit.” – Aristotle
- “The only way to do great work is to love what you do.” – Steve Jobs
- “Appreciate everything your associates do for the business. 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
- “This is the only country in the world where today’s employee is tomorrow’s employer.” – Marco Rubio
- “Your number one customers are your people. Look after employees first and then customers last.” – Ian Hutchinson, author of People Glue
- “When people are financially invested, they want a return. When people are emotionally invested, they want to contribute.” – Simon Sinek
- “When leaders throughout an organization take an active, genuine interest in the people they manage, when they invest real time to understand employees at a fundamental level, they create a climate for greater morale, loyalty, and yes, growth.” – Patrick Lencioni
- “Employee engagement is the emotional commitment an employee has to the organization and its goals.” – Kevin Kruze
- “Always treat your employees exactly as you want them to treat your best customers.” – Stephen R. Covey
- “Everyone wants to be appreciated, so if you appreciate someone, don’t keep it a secret.” – Mary Kay Ash
- “If your actions inspire others to dream more, learn more, do more and become more, you are a leader.” – John Quincy Adams
- “The pessimist complains about the wind. The optimist expects it to change. The leader adjusts the sails.” – John Maxwell
- “The first responsibility of a leader is to define reality. The last is to say thank you. In between, the leader is a servant.” – Max DePree
- “Before you are a leader, success is all about growing yourself. When you become a leader, success is all about growing others.” – Jack Welch
- “The nation will find it very hard to look up to the leaders who are keeping their ears to the ground.” – Sir Winston Churchill
- “Become the kind of leader that people would follow voluntarily, even if you had no title or position.” – Brian Tracy
- “A great person attracts great people and knows how to hold them together.” – Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe
- “Effective leadership is not about making speeches or being liked; leadership is defined by results not attributes.” – Peter Drucker
- “The best executive is the one who has sense enough to pick good men to do what he wants done, and self-restraint enough to keep from meddling with them while they do it.” – Theodore Roosevelt
- “People buy into the leader before they buy into the vision.” – John Maxwell
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