James L. Brooks Quotes

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.

One of the joys of working with boys is that you get your pay as you go along. You can observe the results of your leadership daily... Such satisfaction cannot be purchased at any price; it must be earned.

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.

One of the most amazing things about my job is that I have arguably, maybe not even arguably - definitively - the best boss on the planet. Shonda Rhimes is the best.

I'm a big believer in picking your boss, not the job. Great people create great jobs.

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

When you hire good people, and you provide good jobs and good wages and a career, good things are going to happen.

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.

As a designer, design director or any creative person, you have to hire great people, support them and make them feel comfortable so they can contribute and give you their best.

I've got a really great team around me. They're the ones that are in the restaurants on a day to day basis. Anyone that's good can't be stifled in any way. I don't baby people.

If my assistant goes off and becomes successful, and people want to work with him, I'd take that as a compliment that I'd trained them well.

I've been so fortunate in life to have worked for such great organizations, with great owners and general managers and all the great players, along with the support of my family.

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

We just want to have great people working for us.

People don't value strongly enough how much time they spend in the office. Imagine you could work with people you love - wouldn't work be great and staff turnover be lower? And your productivity higher?

Our employees chose SK on belief that they will be happier working here and that the company will make the society happier.

I value my staff and I believe in hiring people who are smarter than myself.

Train people well enough so they can leave, treat them well enough so they don't want to.

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

Hire passionate employees.

I have a job that I truly love, and an enormous crew of people that can do things better than I can!

You're not going to become a great manager overnight. You're not going to become a great public speaker or figure out how to raise money. These are the things you want to start the clock on as early as possible.

We treat our people like royalty. If you honor and serve the people who work for you, they will honor and serve you.

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.

Executives must place a priority on wellbeing if they want to attract the right people, keep their best people, and drive their company's financial performance.