Jeffrey R. Immelt Quotes

What is Oracle? It's people. We rely on our HR department to build this organization, to help find those people, to help grow those people.

We use the people who are in the bullpen producing.

It would be Goddamned easy to run this office if you didn’t have to deal with people.

Leadership is all about people … and getting the most out of people.

Acquiring and keeping good people is a leader's most important task.

The product is second to managing the people.

Leadership is all about people. It is not about organizations. It is not about plans. It is not about strategies. It is all about people-motivating people to get the job done. You have to be people-centered.

A company's employees are its greatest asset and your people are your product

When you choose a managerial path, you are choosing to devote your life to people. Period.

You can tell a lot about a person by the people who work for them.

You really have to understand this isn't a business where you sit in the back room and do calculations - you have to be very concerned about employees and customers, because that's really what's going to bring you success.

I don't read many business books. I read good fiction. Business is about people, so my favorite business books are anything by Dickens.

I think management is about just that - managing people via man-to-man skills.

Just about anyone can make a good product, but it's the people that count. In the end, it's the employees who will take it from a kitchen-table idea to the next level. There are a lot of important things in business, but the people portion comes first.

Inventories can be managed, but people must be led.

We're very much in the people business in that there are two important groups you have to work with: customers and employees.

Few people would doubt that Mark Zuckerberg would build a great product. But I, at least, would never have expected him to become so great at hiring, motivating, managing, and ultimately getting whatever it is his company needs from people.

Human resources are the most valuable assets the world has.

Personnel is policy.

I was the personnel director there with the Cowboys.

People are the core of every business. Businesses are based on relationships, and relationships are based on people. I would go to an average restaurant run by amazing people over an outstanding restaurant run by awful people.

There are real people on the pitch. We're not commodities. Well, maybe we are to some degree, but it's the team which creates business. Some people don't appreciate that.

Everybody knows: people, operations, and the HR component of Google is one critical strategic asset that we have.

Some of the most successful people managers are also the best listeners.

Managers have traditionally developed the skills in finance, planning, marketing and production techniques. Too often the relations with their people have been assigned a secondary role. This is too important a subject not to receive first-line attention. In this regard we could learn much from the Japanese. We must reinvest in the human side of management.