Jack Ma Quotes

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

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

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

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

Happiness is the secret ingredient for successful businesses. If you have a happy company it will be invincible.

The worst mistake a boss can make is not to say 'well done'.

I expect that our associates will walk with a little more bounce in their step and understand that this company is behind them and has respect for them.

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

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

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

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.

If you're excited about what you're doing, it's a lot more likely that your employees will also be excited. People want to work for a person, not a company. It's about relationships.

The most important thing is team morale.

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.

No company or organization filled with unhappy people will ultimately rise to its highest potential.

The Panda mission really speaks to our philosophy. It is, 'Deliver exceptional Asian dining experiences by building an organization where people are inspired to better their lives.' I'm talking about everyone who works at Panda. They're inspired to better their own lives.

It's amazing that this is still news to people, but that affects the final outcome of the film. When people are treated well, and they're made to feel valued, they give 110 percent.

As a modern employer you have to treat people well.

In order to run a great business, you must know that a bunch of really intrinsically unhappy people, that's not a recipe for success. Don't be anywhere you don't need to be; it's just like that.

When employees are happy, they are your very best ambassadors.

The employer generally gets the employees he deserves.

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.

Take time to appreciate employees and they will reciprocate in a thousand ways.

My Christian Louboutins are also one of the secrets to my not-for-profit success. Here's why - and it's something that everyone who manages employees, whether in a for-profit business or a not-for-profit, should keep in mind: A little extravagance goes a long way.

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