Kathryn Minshew Quotes

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

I don't pay good wages because I have a lot of money; I have a lot of money because I pay good wages.

Firms don't just try to pay as little as possible to get the needed bodies on board; when there is unemployment, they ask themselves how wage cuts would affect the behavior of the employees. Would they quit or feel dissatisfied and work less hard on the firm's behalf if they feel that wage policies are unfair?

Sloan Gibson is doing a great job. We need to give him more power to terminate employees.

I believe in workers' rights when people are doing a good job.

A skilled worker, regardless of the job description, remains a treasure.

The employee is regarded by the employer merely in the light of his value as an operative. His productive capacity alone is taken into account.

If you don't have the good fortune to work a lot then you take any job you get offered, whether it's a good job, fun job, a bad job, horrible job, whatever, you just take what you need to take. But I'm lucky in that - at the moment anyway and hopefully forever, but who knows - I get the chance to pick jobs for the kick of it and the fun.

Employees are your most valuable assets. They are the heart and guts of a company. This doesn't mean that from time to time, you aren't going to do what is good for the company.

Men and women want to do a good job, and if they are provided the proper environment, they will do so.

If employees need to stay late in order to curry favor with the boss, what motivation do they have to get work done during normal business hours? After all, they can put in the requisite 'face time' whether they are surfing the Internet or analyzing customer data.

As long as I do a good job, I believe the future is going to take care of itself, but actually I like very much being in elected office and there is no consideration about doing anything different until I can be assured that we are going to have the best voting systems in the country.

Paying your employees well is not only the right thing to do but it makes for good business.

I had a good career. I've been very fortunate.

I was a pizza delivery boy at the Pizza Oven in Canton. I wanted to get fired so bad, I actually wrecked the delivery car, but they wouldn't fire me because I was the only person they had working there.

American workers are first rate.

In order to be rated as good as a good man in the field of her earnings, she must show herself better than he. She must be more steady, or more trustworthy, or more skilled, or more cheap in order to have the same chance of employment.

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.

Businesses often forget about the culture, and ultimately, they suffer for it because you can't deliver good service from unhappy employees.

If we can modernise the workforce, make them better qualified, have this framework of qualifications, then I think they have a very good case for more money.

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.

When you ask people about what they enjoy doing, time spent with the boss is even worse than time spent cleaning the house. So this suggests that there are a lot of leaders out there who are not doing an adequate job.

I know people like to work for me, and quite a few have gotten rich working for me.

You'll have to hire people to expand your business. But it's a good discipline to really question if you need each and every hire.

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.