Blake Mycoskie Quotes

Money is not the only thing that motivates employees. It's about making them happy.

If you love your company and love what you do, you will serve your customers better-period!

I love being part of a company, and telling a story.

Any good business is a hobby. We have an integrated company culture, and I can honestly say that many people who come here to work make Yandex a central part of their lives.

I always thought there were some people who were just destined to be disengaged in their jobs because that was their personality, and no matter how hard managers tried, there wasn't much they could do with some of those people.

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.

The fastest way to disengage an employee is to tell him his work is meaningful only because of the paycheck.

... if you talk to say any of the first 40 or 50 employees, they all feel like they were a part of the founding of the company.

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

Any company trying to compete...must figure out a way to engage the mind of every employee.

If employees aren't satisfied, they won't promote the product we need.

Those three things - autonomy, complexity, and a connection between effort and reward - are, most people will agree, the three qualities that work has to have if it is to be satisfying.

Instead of instilling fear, if a company offered a way for everyone in the business to dive within-to start expanding energy and intelligence-people would work overtime for free. They would be far more creative. And the company would just leap forward. This is the way it can be. It's not the way it is, but it could be that way so easily.

The kind of work that should be the main part of life is the kind of work you would want to do if you weren't being paid for it. It’s work that comes out of your own internal needs, interests and concerns.

If you're excited about what you're doing, it's a lot more likely that your employees will also be excited. People want to work for a person, not a company. It's about relationships.

I thought I was going to stay at Google, because it was a great place to work.

You can divide our industry into two kinds of people: those who want to go work for a company to make it successful, and those who want to go work for a successful company.

Find something to do that you love because then the work itself is always the reward not the recompense. And if you love what you're doing you probably do better at it than doing something you don't love and therefore you'll be compensated appropriately.

Sometimes, to ensure that a talented individual will work for you, or will stay working with you, you need to be flexible. Money is not always the great motivator here. Talented people want a good salary, of course, but surprisingly often they are more attracted to new opportunities and challenges.

Many have no desire to be in it, because their work does not interest them, providing them with neither challenge nor satisfaction, and has no other merit in their eyes than that it leads to a pay-packet at the end of the week.

Most importantly, we want to create a company where every employee can bring their whole selves to work.

Hard work leads to low returns. Insight and doing what we want lead to high returns.

If it interests you, they don't have to pay you. It's a fascinating business anyway-it's very nice to be paid-but when you do thrilling material, it's like buying a piece of furniture that's really good.

If you want a successful business, your people must feel that you are working for them - not that they are working for you.

Loyal employees in any company create loyal customers, who in turn create happy shareholders.