Nina Turner Quotes

Always let your employees come to work with a smile.

A willing, cheerful worker, with his heart in his job, will turn out more work and more satisfactory work in 44 hours than an unwilling worker, dissatisfied with his conditions, will turn out in 54 hours. It is good business, therefore, for every employer to go as far as he possibly can in reaching a schedule agreeable to his people.

My summers at Apple had taught me that the secret to encouraging creativity and producing the best possible product was to keep people fulfilled and happy. I wanted the people who built salesforce.com to be inspired and to feel valued.

As a modern employer you have to treat people well.

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.

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.

We need better corporate environments. We need better workplaces everywhere.

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

The most important thing is team morale.

In leading-edge companies like Google and Apple, workers are given much freedom and opportunity to play. They know that's an important component of creating new and better products. I believe that at whatever level of work, cashier at a supermarket, janitor at an airport, aide in a cubicle, the addition of a playful attitude makes the job better and the work more enjoyable. A cashier or janitor who smiles and is friendly gets a better response than a surly one.

No company or organization filled with unhappy people will ultimately rise to its highest potential.

Forget socialism, capitalism, just-in-time deliveries, salary surveys, and the rest ... concentrate on building organizations that accomplish that most difficult of all challenges: to make people look forward to coming to work in the morning.

One of the best parts of working at 'O' is that people just love to send us stuff.

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.

I expect that our associates will walk with a little more bounce in their step and understand that this company is behind them and has respect for them.

If I give you the right conditions to work, and I put you in a beautiful place, where you feel a little bit better about yourself because you know your work is being used for something greater than producing a profit, maybe you will get more creative; maybe you will want to work more.

I know what it's like and how hard my assistants work, and I try to treat them as fair as possible and make the office a fun environment.

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.

Positive and engaged brains are a company's greatest assets. More than time and even more than productivity, people must be happy.

It's hard to explain to people how, if you're really capable of providing the right professional work environment, it allows you to get more personal.

If the only reason people are coming in and doing anything in your office is because you're giving them a paycheck, I'm not sure you have the most productive workplace there.

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

People don't value strongly enough how much time they spend in the office. Imagine you could work with people you love - wouldn't work be great and staff turnover be lower? And your productivity higher?

If you work hard and there's not a good atmosphere, the work doesn't mean a thing.