Ronald Lauder Quotes

I don't think there's anything wrong with being paternalistic as a company.

When your boss and colleagues care enough to invest in your health, it is good for you and the business.

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

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

Whole Foods has a good health care plan.

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.

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

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

It is vital that a company's culture shows a willingness to invest in employee wellbeing with no stigma or penalty attached to prioritising good health.

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

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 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.

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.

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.

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

While they're in WWE, we absolutely have a health and wellness policy. I'll probably always say 'we,' even though I've resigned as the CEO. It's kind of hard to break a 30-year habit.

You want to show your people that you value them, and you're not going to hurt them just to get a little more money in the short term. Not furloughing people breeds loyalty. It breeds a sense of security. It breeds a sense of trust.

I've been asked a number of times what was my proudest accomplishment when I was still very active in the day-to-day affairs of Southwest Airlines. I always said job security for our people.

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.

Many of the things we do at Basecamp would be considered unusual at most companies: paying for employees' hobbies, allowing our team to work from anywhere, even footing the bill for fresh fruits and veggies in our staff members' homes.

There's always more employers can do to protect their employees.

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

If you take care of your workers they'll take care of your business.

One of the best parts of working at 'O' is that people just love to send us stuff.

How do you make your company a good place to work in general? That's a really, really, really large and complex set of skills. A lot of it is on-the-job training, combined with excellent mentorship.