Sully Sullenberger Quotes

A company's employees are its greatest asset and your people are your product

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.

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

Your workforce is your most valuable asset. The knowledge and skills they have represent the fuel that drives the engine of business - and you can leverage that knowledge.

CEOs the world over are fond of pointing to their workforce and saying "Our people are our greatest asset." And yet today, only two out of ten people think their assets are being well used at work.

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

Vision is dandy, but sustainable company excellence comes from a huge stable of able managers.

Employees are your most valuable assets. They are the heart and guts of a company. This doesn't mean that from time to time, you aren't going to do what is good for the company.

The corporate world is appallingly bad at capitalizing on the strengths of its people.

The employer generally gets the employees he deserves.

People are definitely a company's greatest asset. It doesn't make any difference whether the product is cars or cosmetics. A company is only as good as the people it keeps.

If you believe, as I do, that your employees truly are your most valuable asset, you will do whatever you can to help them do their jobs as well as possible.

Someone asked me about what's it like managing 2.2 million associates, and I said, 'When they're Wal-Mart associates, it's not all that hard because of the quality and the depth of our talent.' I'm really proud of the fact that 70% of the managers in the U.S. started as hourly associates with our company.

Your most precious possession is not your financial assets. Your most precious possession is the people you have working there, and what they carry around in their heads, and their ability to work together.

I start with people's growth, my own growth included. I don't start with the company's strategy or products. I start with people's growth because I believe that if the people who are running and participating in a company grow, then the company's growth will in many respects take care of itself.

No one gave me a recipe for how to create company culture. I wish I had had one.

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

If you hire great people, and they're all self-motivated, then you can get by without a lot of structure.

When employees join executives in truly owning the responsibility for business success, an exciting new sense of teamwork takes hold.

Everybody knows: people, operations, and the HR component of Google is one critical strategic asset that we have.

Our assets walk out of the door each evening. We have to make sure that they come back the next morning.

Acquiring and keeping good people is a leader's most important task.

people are all there is to an organization

Your employees are your company’s real competitive advantage. They’re the ones making the magic happen-so long as their needs are being met.

Human resources are like natural resources; they're often buried deep. You have to go looking for them; they're not just lying around on the surface.