Paige Craig Quotes

Everyone talks about building a relationship with your customer. I think you build one with your employees first.

If you believe, as I do, that your employees truly are your most valuable asset, you will do whatever you can to help them do their jobs as well as possible.

At Whole Foods, we allow our team members to vote on what benefits they most want the company to fund.

I can't tell you how many thousands of small moments that I've had with employees in our company that have been nothing more than a one-on-one. I'll see the baggage-services person, he or she is by himself. I'll pull them off to the side and have a 15-minute conversation about their history, their life, that kind of thing.

We take such good care of our employees. What I do is think about what I would want my employer to be like. We started helping our employees with every facet of their lives, and our HR problems went from A to Z in reverse.

Building human-centered organizations doesn't imply a return to the paternalistic, corporate welfare practices of the 19th century. Most of us don't want to be nannied.

The basic principle which I believe has contributed more than any other to the building of our business as it is today, is the ownership of our company by the people employed in it.

We want to take care of our employees, because they take care of our family.

We let folks know we're interested in them and that they're vital to us. cause they are.

Sharing information with employees makes them feel invested.

The best way to have your people be happy and satisfied is to earn the right to have them come back to work for you the next day, knowing that there are tons of other places.

We treat the management-to-workforce relationship as very important and will continue to invest in that relationship.

We do all we can to proactively think about employees, how to care about them.

We invest very heavily in the employees. We get the return, and the employee gets the return if they stay with us for a while. So, we focus on people that will commit to us for the long run.

If you're thinking about your brand over your people, you've lost yourself.

Bottom line: If you can't spare some time to give your employees the chance to wow you, you'll never get the best from them.

Most CEOs walk around the office like we own the place, without realizing that the place itself isn't worth owning: a business's value comes from the people who walk out the door every night, who have to decide each morning whether to walk back in. One of the simplest things you can do as a leader is honor their choice and appreciate their work.

Even companies with big resources were not creating spaces supportive of their teams. We see that in creating those types of spaces, there is an amazing human potential for excitement and happiness. Especially among companies trying to serve a younger, more innovative workforce.

Your employees come first. And if you treat your employees right, guess what? Your customers come back, and that makes your shareholders happy. Start with employees and the rest follows from that.

Taking care of your employees is extremely important and very, very visible.

We would rather have our employees running our business.

The most valuable lesson I learned in dealing with the ups and downs was to invest in my employees - to do all I could for them when the times were good.

The way management treats associates is exactly how the associates will treat the customers.

Businesses often forget about the culture, and ultimately, they suffer for it because you can't deliver good service from unhappy employees.

What you can't buy is the loyalty that comes through our dedicated crewmembers.