Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi Quotes

A business of high principle attracts high-caliber people more easily, thereby gaining a basic competitive and profit edge.

My father taught us that to thrive, excellence in technology, quality, and customer service along with cost competitiveness is a prerequisite. His contribution to business, the economy, and society at large can never be underscored enough.

The thing that keeps a business ahead of the competition is excellence in execution.

The only reason to be in business is to be great.

If you start out to solely make money, you will attract the wrong kind of employees.

Become the very best in your business!

I find it fascinating that sport has such a strong connection to success in business. Arguably, C-suite women are some of the most successful women, and more than half of them played at a more advanced level than just the general population of women in business that had sport in their background.

One of the reasons you study at great institutions or aspire to work in great corporations is that you hope to acquire the values they stand for.

Business is about being the best that you can be, and there are always glowing examples of people that we can all learn from.

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.

The employer generally gets the employees he deserves.

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.

About half the people at Valve have run their own companies, so they always have the option not just to take a job at another game company, but to go start their own company. The question you always have to answer is, 'How are we making these people more valuable than they would be elsewhere?'

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

Since most startups operate at a break-neck pace, with a concept to prove or a product to launch within a rapidly shortening runway of financing, company culture often gets shoved aside. This is a big, big mistake: Nobody serious about their business should put culture in the corner.

So I won't say I'm lucky. I'm fortunate enough to find or attract very talented people. For some reason I found them, and they found me.

Chick-fil-A is what it is today because of its people, purpose and product.

Gillette is one of those companies where it's about success, and that's who I want to partner myself with.

Corporate culture matters. How management chooses to treat its people impacts everything - for better or for worse.

We just want to have great people working for us.

I will continue to focus on global strategy and to do everything I can to help Yahoo! realize its full potential and enhance its leading culture of technology and product excellence and innovation.

One very interesting framework for a company to succeed over time - beyond just business logic and analytics - is, do they have a reason why the best graduates in engineering programs will flock to them versus competitors?

Too many executives I've met over the years have the mentality of a bodybuilder; they've come to accept the idea that growth is synonymous with success.

If you want to have the best employees, there really needs to be a vision and a mission. Talent looks for a mission. And if you have the best talent, that's the single biggest competitive advantage any company can have.

My desire has always been to be the leader in an industry.