Matt Mullenweg Quotes

Hire the best people, and trust what you hired them to do.

The best way to be productive is to have a great team. So I spend more time than most CEOs on human resources. That's 20 percent of my week.

As a designer, design director or any creative person, you have to hire great people, support them and make them feel comfortable so they can contribute and give you their best.

Employees are a company's greatest asset - they're your competitive advantage. You want to attract and retain the best; provide them with encouragement, stimulus, and make them feel that they are an integral part of the company's mission.

I get the team set up good and then I'll let them do their thing. At the end of the day, if you put the time and effort into interviewing and finding the right people for a job, you've got to let them do that job.

I've got a really great team around me. They're the ones that are in the restaurants on a day to day basis. Anyone that's good can't be stifled in any way. I don't baby people.

Get the best people and train them well.

I hadn't really worked in an office before Shutterstock, so I didn't have the experience of building a culture, nor did I understand how important that is for attracting and retaining the best talent.

You know, as most entrepreneurs do, that a company is only as good as its people. The hard part is actually building the team that will embody your company's culture and propel you forward.

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.

We just want to have great people working for us.

There is power in helping people get excited about what they do and inspiring and motivating them to unleash their full potential.

The employee relationships are important, investment in our people is important, and the ability to do work at multiple sites is important.

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.

Put the right people in the right places, and then you trust them to do the right stuff.

I always encourage employees to feel free to raise any issues that prevent them from getting good work done.

How do leaders serve their people? They may pay good wages and treat employees with respect.

Our company has to be a company that enables its people.

I've always said that if you can get the best people who are good at what they do, but more importantly are passionate about what they do, you'll succeed.

People say the most important thing is building a world-class team.

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

Delegating doesn't mean passing off work you don't enjoy, but letting your employees stretch their skills and judgment.

I want a desirable place to work to attract and keep them here. So you try to create an environment for people to do their best work, and be generous on the benefit side.

Really in technology, it's about the people, getting the best people, retaining them, nurturing a creative environment and helping to find a way to innovate.

Executives must place a priority on wellbeing if they want to attract the right people, keep their best people, and drive their company's financial performance.