James Sinegal Quotes

A company is only as good as the people it keeps.

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

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

We just want to have great people working for us.

We expanded primarily for our people - if you don't offer more opportunities, you don't keep good people.

If your employees are not happy, nothing else at your company will go well.

We want to keep the company healthy and its employees happy, and we want to keep them on the job and productive.

Our attitude is that if you hire good people and pay them a fair wage, then good things will happen for the company.

You have got to attract the brightest and the best, but the brightest and best won't stay unless they see real career options.

I have a foundational belief that business results start with culture and your people.

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

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.

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.

The best way to have your people be happy and satisfied is to earn the right to have them come back to work for you the next day, knowing that there are tons of other places.

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

One of the challenges of having exceptionally high quality talent is that they're constantly restless, and they're constantly on the lookout for opportunities.

We can't afford to let high performing talent just walk away from our companies without providing an opportunity to work through family needs.

Engaged, enthusiastic, and loyal employees are pivotal drivers of growth and health in any organization.

Steve Jobs has a saying that A players hire A players; B players hire C players; and C players hire D players. It doesn't take long to get to Z players. This trickle-down effect causes bozo explosions in companies.

Create the kind of workplace and company culture that will attract great talent. If you hire brilliant people, they will make work feel more like play.

Most CEOs walk around the office like we own the place, without realizing that the place itself isn't worth owning: a business's value comes from the people who walk out the door every night, who have to decide each morning whether to walk back in. One of the simplest things you can do as a leader is honor their choice and appreciate their work.

Zoom does not focus on revenue goals, but rather we have confidence that focusing on the happiness of existing customers and our employees will organically increase growth.

Creating a strong company culture isn't just good business. It's the right thing to do, and it makes your company better for all stakeholders - employees, management, and customers.

The best way to build the best workforce is to focus on the largest talent pool you have.

If there's a secret to New Line, it's the people here.