Tom Rath Quotes

Employees are a company's greatest asset - they're your competitive advantage. You want to attract and retain the best; provide them with encouragement, stimulus, and make them feel that they are an integral part of the company's mission.

Productivity is driven at the enterprise level. Better wages, better performing workplaces, are driven at the workplace level.

Engaged, enthusiastic, and loyal employees are pivotal drivers of growth and health in any organization.

The main way to reduce stress in the workplace is by picking the right people.

The most important thing executives can do is send a very clear message to their employees that they care about each person's overall wellbeing and that they want to be a part of helping it improve over time.

Hire the best people, and trust what you hired them to do.

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

The best way to build the best workforce is to focus on the largest talent pool you have.

Today, no leader can afford to be indifferent to the challenge of engaging employees in the work of creating the future. Engagement may have been optional in the past, but it's pretty much the whole game today.

How do leaders serve their people? They may pay good wages and treat employees with respect.

Even though people spend more of their waking hours at work than anywhere else, people underestimate how work influences their overall wellbeing and daily experience.

Certainly, we continue to bring in new people. We'll hire, net new, over 4,000 people this year, and attract great people into the company. I'm very bullish about the employee base and what it can accomplish.

Hire passionate employees.

We focus on two things when hiring. First, find the best people you can in the world. And second, let them do their work. Just get out of their way.

The best way to be productive is to have a great team. So I spend more time than most CEOs on human resources. That's 20 percent of my week.

You have got to attract the brightest and the best, but the brightest and best won't stay unless they see real career options.

I want a desirable place to work to attract and keep them here. So you try to create an environment for people to do their best work, and be generous on the benefit side.

I hadn't really worked in an office before Shutterstock, so I didn't have the experience of building a culture, nor did I understand how important that is for attracting and retaining the best talent.

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

People are definitely a company's greatest asset. It doesn't make any difference whether the product is cars or cosmetics. A company is only as good as the people it keeps.

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.

We just want to have great people working for us.

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.

When men are employed, they are best contented.

As CEO of a big company, I have to be a kind of a champion of the interests of our people as insofar as their ability to do their job, to feel comfortable in their work environment, and to be able to fulfill their ambitions.