Gary Hamel Quotes

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.

Since the earliest days of Eventbrite, we've made our people core to our mission. Our culture is an ever-evolving manifestation of those on our team. As people join, we believe in earning their trust by demonstrating we'll embrace them and help them grow.

We would rather have our employees running our business.

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

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

What really makes your business is your workers - their commitment, their knowledge, how you train them, how you treat them. They have to make the entity a winning entity.

We need better corporate environments. We need better workplaces everywhere.

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.

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

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

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

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.

Your company is a product. Who are its customers? Your employees, who use it to do their jobs.

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

The notion that employees and companies have a social contract with each other that goes beyond a paycheck has largely vanished in United States business.

You can employ men and hire hands to work for you, but you must win their hearts to have them work with you.

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

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.

If tomorrow all of America were to become paternalistic, we would beat the Japanese every day of the week. I think that the concept of accusing someone of running a paternalistic company, that's not an accusation. One should compliment someone on that.

I don't think value to the customer is achieved at the expense of employees' welfare.

Treat employees like partners, and they act like partners.

As an HR Manager, you don't have to build a top-down perks program. You decide how much you want to invest in your employees, and then you give your employees the control to build a custom perk package for themselves.

The way I would measure leadership is this: of the people that are working with me, how many wake up in the morning thinking that the company is theirs?

It stands to reason: Higher wages means higher loyalty and morale, which means higher productivity, which means a more profitable business.

The Bay Area definitely knows the pain of competing for, and retaining, top talent. Offering interesting perks has become a necessity, not a nice-to-have.