Leonard Lauder Quotes

I don't think there's anything wrong with being paternalistic as a company. We are very paternalistic. We have a very good health plan - we take care of people.

Sustainability includes how you run your business, and my bottom line includes how you treat your people. Sustainability starts with your staff.

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

Corporations are social organizations, the theater in which men and women realize or fail to realize purposeful and productive lives.

A company is not accountable just to its owners, but to its workers and its customers.

Second, if you're the boss, just because they don't ask doesn't mean your employees don't have needs.

Compassion, together with contractual responsibility for one's workforce, is a mark of a top employer.

Corporate executives need to re-frame their responsibilities to include the interests of all the stakeholders in society at large; not just shareholders, but also employees, the citizens of our communities, and those who care about the environment.

As for the company, I did all I could from the very outset of this affair to remove Yukos and its employees from danger.

Putting people before profits is how we've tried to operate from the beginning.

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

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.

When we began Starbucks, what I wanted to try to do was to create a set of values, guiding principles, and culture.

A company has a greater responsibility than making money for its stockholders. We have a responsibility to our employees to recognize their dignity as human beings.

Culture is what happens when the CEO isn't in the room.

I came to the conclusion that it was unlikely that a man as really awful as I think that Steve Jobs was could possibly create a great company for the long term. I just don't believe bad guys do well in the long run.

Now I know that Wal-Mart's policies do not reflect the best way of doing business and the values that I think are important in America.

A corporation that is publicly traded, it has one goal: to make money. It doesn't have a soul. If it does have a soul, it comes from the people who run it.

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

For millennials, conducting business with a purpose that goes beyond making profits is critically important in determining the kind of company they want to work for - and the kind of company with whom they are willing to do business.

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

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.

Creating a strong company culture isn't just good business. It's the right thing to do, and it makes your company better for all stakeholders - employees, management, and customers.

At Eventbrite, we care about the whole you, not just the employee you.