Travis Bradberry Quotes

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

Before I started a company, I was an employee with a bad attitude. I was always felt like, bosses are stupid, and people weren't well treated.

Pay attention to those employees who respectfully ask why. They are demonstrating an interest in their jobs and exhibiting a curiosity that could eventually translate into leadership ability.

You can employ men and hire hands to work for you, but you must win their hearts to have them work with you.

The employer generally gets the employees he deserves.

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.

If you hire good people, give them good jobs, and pay them good wages, generally something good is going to happen.

People leave their manager; they don't leave companies.

I think I've got the best staff in television.

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.

I think Amazon is a place where people don't want to work.

The morale when I came in was not the best. It was because the agency had not been valued.

Morale is at the lowest point since I've been here.

My job description is... being enthusiastic.

In order to run a great business, you must know that a bunch of really intrinsically unhappy people, that's not a recipe for success. Don't be anywhere you don't need to be; it's just like that.

The worst mistake a boss can make is not to say 'well done'.

Quality has always been the overriding factor for us. But you also have to have happy people working for you.

Without pay, no human being will work up to their ability if he or she is not cared for and respected.

Employees who believe that management is concerned about them as a whole person - not just an employee - are more productive, more satisfied, more fulfilled. Satisfied employees mean satisfied customers, which leads to profitability.

If you don't let people flourish in their jobs, why are they going to stay?

The personality problem is so tough when you're not able to pay people. It's bad enough when you can pay people, but, when you have people working for free, often their motivation is diminished considerably.

Take time to appreciate employees and they will reciprocate in a thousand ways.

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

Know what your people are like, and make sure they do their jobs excellently.

We just want to have great people working for us.