Charles H. Percy Quotes

You have to be engaged, or else you're not going to want to show up and go to work.

If people are not tied to the work from a mission-driven focus, I don't think you're going to motivate them.

Connect the dots between individual roles and the goals of the organization. When people see that connection, they get a lot of energy out of work. They feel the importance, dignity, and meaning in their job.

When a person applies enthusiasm to his job, the job will itself become alive with exciting new possibilities.

One of the proven ways of getting workers more involved with their jobs is by dovetailing employee profit-sharing and stock ownership plans with greater responsibility sharing... Trade unions in this country should... consider these arrangements much more carefully than they have up to now... Expanded employee profit participation and stock ownership would provide workers with a greater measure of economic and social independence, thus stimulating increased productivity.

Most employees only want to know how much they get paid and how much time off they get - they probably don't have the mission in their souls.

There is a huge body of evidence showing that people do better in their work when they know why they're doing it in the first place. They do better when they see what they're doing contributes to something in the world.

If the only reason people are coming in and doing anything in your office is because you're giving them a paycheck, I'm not sure you have the most productive workplace there.

You can get the best out of people if they're happy and not worried or not frightened that they're going to make a mistake.

When a manager doesn't have any interest in you, you can see that as a player.

Irrelevance is the feeling that an employee gets when they don't see how their job really makes a difference in someone else's life in some large or small way.

Every employee needs to know that there's somebody out there that they serve. And when we don't let people know that for one reason or another, we're depriving them of a fulfilling job.

The best organizations are filled with people who have a wealth of choices as to what work they choose to do. We need to give them every reason possible to solve the world's problems.

It's important to feel wanted by your manager.

At Manhattan GMAT, I had done my best to create a positive work environment and culture, and I further believed in rewarding people financially at or above the market rate for a job well done.

Our philosophy at Zoom is to create a company that promotes self-motivation. I have told our managers not to spend too much time motivating employees. You have to create an environment where employees can motivate themselves. That is really important because self-motivation is more sustainable.

There will always be people who think that money and benefits and even just having a job should be thanks enough. There are also those that think they do a great job without anyone having to thank them. But study after study has shown that no one is immune from the motivating effects of acknowledgement and thanks.

The day we struggle to enjoy what we do and just get the gig over with we'll quit.

An empowered and enriched workforce is the backbone of a company's success framework.

At United, everyone is there because they want to be there.

If you want to give 100 per cent, you have to feel that you are important for the manager.

We want passion for our business.. workers who can interpret and execute our mission, who want to build a career, not just take a temporary job.

I totally love my job, and I wake up every day basically thinking about how can I do my job better. It never feels like a job. It's hard, and it's exhausting sometimes, but it never feels like - I would do this even if they didn't pay me to do it. That's a pretty amazing feeling.

Never give up searching for the job that you're passionate about.

The problem when someone feels burned out, bored, unchallenged, or stifled by their work is not the job itself but rather the environment and playground rules given to them to do the job at hand.