Marilyn Ferguson Quotes

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

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

Happiness is a critical factor for work, and work is a critical factor for happiness. In one of those life-isn’t-fair results, it turns out that the happy out-perform the less happy.

Understanding your employee's perspective can go a long way towards increasing productivity and happiness.

You spend money on Internet connection for your employees. Why not spend money on the energy that fuels their brains?

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.

I employ thousands of people, maybe 5,000 or 6,000. In my mind, they are all doing well. Because if they are not doing well in their minds, I'm not as strong as I could be.

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

For me, it's very important that the people I'm working with are feeling happy.

Seems Google management figured out it is cheaper, happier and more productive to take care of their employees and create a positive work environment than to burn them to a crisp, make them afraid of the future, and send them off into the highways and byways of California in search of a Taco Bell for lunch.

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

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

The power of a positive self-image plays a vital role in experiencing perfect health.

You have to treat your employees like customers

Studies show that over 80 percent of Americans do not have their dream job. If more knew how to build organizations that inspire, we could live in a world in which that statistic was the reverse - a world in which over 80 percent of people loved their jobs. People who love going to work are more productive and more creative. They go home happier and have happier families. They treat their colleagues and clients and customers better. Inspired employees make for stronger companies and stronger economies.

Treat your employees like customers.

A job is bound to be miserable if it doesn't involve measurement.

Customers first, employees second, and shareholders third.

If you have high self-esteem, you might still know times of emotional suffering, but less often and with faster recovery-your resilience is greater.

Self-esteem starts out as a personal blessing, but it becomes nothing less than an evolutionary force.

The ability to take pride in your own work is one of the hallmarks of sanity.

Remember that everyone deserves some fun during working hours.

Money is not the only thing that motivates employees. It's about making them happy.

A willing, cheerful worker, with his heart in his job, will turn out more work and more satisfactory work in 44 hours than an unwilling worker, dissatisfied with his conditions, will turn out in 54 hours. It is good business, therefore, for every employer to go as far as he possibly can in reaching a schedule agreeable to his people.

My brain and my heart are really important to me. I don't know why I wouldn't seek help to have those things be as healthy as my teeth. I go to the dentist. So why wouldn't I go to a shrink?