Masayoshi Son Quotes

Your employees come first. And if you treat your employees right, guess what? Your customers come back, and that makes your shareholders happy. Start with employees and the rest follows from that.

As a CEO, you get sucked into dealing with all the tasks of being a CEO. There's a big meeting, a big discussion, and you get into all the big issues, which is your job. But what CEOs often lose sight of is that it's all about the people who work for you. For every 1,000 decisions, 999 were being made when I was not in the room.

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

Strategic planning is worthless - unless there is first a strategic vision.

Chick-fil-A is what it is today because of its people, purpose and product.

The best way to invest corporate profits is to give them to the employees.

The manager has his eye on the bottom line; the leader has his eye on the horizon.

It's unfortunate that you don't see the loyalty from management to players and players to management like we used to see in the old days.

The key to good management is keeping the guys on your team who hate your guts away from the guys who haven't made up their minds.

Lewis Booth and Derrick Kuzak represent the very best of Ford and our culture and built a legacy of leadership, integrity and commitment to excellence that will benefit us for years to come.

If you want to have the best employees, there really needs to be a vision and a mission. Talent looks for a mission. And if you have the best talent, that's the single biggest competitive advantage any company can have.

The robust benefits of employee stock ownership plans are hard to beat.

Businesses increasingly have to differentiate themselves around their people, as much as their product, because thing are so replicable now.

If you're thinking about your brand over your people, you've lost yourself.

The real heart of strategy is the strategist.

Whether you are running a business, an industry, or a nation - what is needed are insight, integrity, and inspiration.

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

Leaders have followers, managers have employees. Managers make widgets, leaders make change.

Executives should blog if they have a vision they are trying to communicate, or if they are very visible in the media.

A man who tells you to follow him, will turn his followers into his company. While a true leader who does not tell you to follow him, will sit in the company of his followers.

A leader knows what's best to do; a manager knows merely how best to do it.

Leadership comes with consistency.

The last thing IBM needs right now is a vision.

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

I think I have a good eye for talent. I think I'm smart enough to figure out what the mission is and achieve it. I achieve it by hiring good people.