Shari Arison Quotes

Creative ideas flourish best in a shop which preserves some spirit of fun. Nobody is in business for fun, but that does not mean there cannot be fun in business.

Good leaders make people feel that they're at the very heart of things, not at the periphery.

Set a clear, easy-to-understand vision for your company, and make it be a mission people believe in.

Once employees feel challenged, invigorated and productive, their efforts will naturally translate into profit and growth for the organisation.

I'm a leader at the restaurant. If I do this, the people at the restaurant will try to do better. I believe in that, and that's the way it is.

When employees join executives in truly owning the responsibility for business success, an exciting new sense of teamwork takes hold.

The simple act of paying positive attention to people has a great deal to do with productivity.

Why can't it be awesome to work for a food company? Why can't we create an environment where people are trying to push each other to do great things, and we're not trying to steal from anybody - we're trying to be good to our farmers and run an honorable business, if there is such a thing anymore?

There's a lot of pride that business owners have. It's actually really critical that pride and ownership extends to everyone in the organization. I think of everyone is in the same boat in driving the company forward.

Great leaders help their people see how they can directly impact the company's objectives and their own personal goals.

The most challenging part of being CEO is communicating to 200,000 people what you want done.

To me, success in the job is setting a vision, guiding an organization through change - which is exactly what I did at Digitas, and I'm very proud of that - and bringing people together and with you. That, to me, is what it takes to be successful.

Usually people who are in my position, they run a company and they hire people and then they take the credit for it.

I used to think business was 50 percent having the right people. Now I think it's 80 percent.

I'm privileged and grateful to lead The Walt Disney Company and our talented, dedicated team at this exciting time.

When you are led by values, it doesn't cost your business, it helps your business.

Sam Walton instilled ownership of the products in the stores into the collective consciousness of every associate regardless of what job they did for the company.

I feel good, I feel good. Our training staff, they're the best.

Great companies in the way they work, start with great leaders.

The best way to make employees happy is to set realistic goals and achieve them. The big job is to make sure those small steps are pointing us in the right direction and demonstrate at the end of the year that they all add up to something pretty great.

A lot of people saved IBM. Yes, I was the leader of that team, but I could never have done it without a group of IBMers helping me.

You go to a plant not only to pat the people on the back, but to tell them about the opportunities they have to do a better job. Quality is one of the opportunities they have to do a better job.

I recognize we will pay more attention when we have different leadership.

You can't regulate a soul into a business.

The essence of business to me is great people run great companies. Mediocre people don't do a very good job.