Motivate Employees Quotes

Always treat your employees exactly as you want them to treat your best customers.

Stephen Covey

Inspirational, Teamwork, Appreciation

Stephen R. Covey (2016). “The 7 Habits of Highly Effective People: Powerful Lessons in Personal Change Interactive Edition”, p.69, Mango Media Inc.

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Being on par in terms of price and quality only gets you into the game. Service wins the game.

Tony Alessandra

Inspirational, Educational, Winning

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Businesses often forget about the culture, and ultimately, they suffer for it because you can't deliver good service from unhappy employees.

Tony Hsieh

Inspirational, Service Culture, Focus

"Zappos Milestone: Q&A With Tony Hsieh". Footwear News Interview, footwearnews.com. May 4, 2009.

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Highly engaged employees make the customer experience. Disengaged employees break it.

Timothy R. Clark

Inspirational, Engagement, Break

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A customer is the most important visitor on our premises. He is not dependent on us. We are dependent on him. He is not an interruption in our work. He is the purpose of it. He is not an outsider in our business. He is part of it. We are not doing him a favor by serving him. He is doing us a favor by giving us an opportunity to do so.

Mahatma Gandhi

Leadership, Spiritual, Educational

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Kind words can be short and easy to speak, but their echoes are truly endless.

Mother Teresa

Inspirational, Life, Motivational

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Opportunity is missed by most people because it is dressed in overalls and looks like work.

Thomas A. Edison

Funny, Life, Motivational

"An Enemy Called Average". Book by John L. Mason, 1990.

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If you want to lift yourself up, lift up someone else.

Booker T. Washington

Inspirational, Life, Motivational

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We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence, then, is not an act, but a habit.

Will Durant

Inspirational, Life, Motivational

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Statistics suggest that when customers complain, business owners and managers ought to get excited about it. The complaining customer represents a huge opportunity for more business.

Zig Ziglar

Loyalty, Business, Educational

"Smarter Branding Without Breaking the Bank: Five Proven Marketing Strategies You Can Use Right Now to Build Your Business at Little Or No Cost". Book by Brenda Bence (p. 91), November 7, 2011.

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Employees who are controlled cannot respond caringly, you need superior knowledge and real leadership, not management. Because of this we specifically developed a selection process for leaders; we don't hire managers.

Horst Schulze

Real, Educational, Leader

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Everything you've ever wanted is on the other side of fear.

George Adair

Inspirational, Motivational, Change

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There are only three measurements that tell you nearly everything you need to know about your organization's overall performance: employee engagement, customer satisfaction, and cash flow...It goes without saying that no company, small or large, can win over the long run without energized employees who believe in the mission and understand how to achieve it.

Jack Welch

Running, Appreciation, Believe

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Research indicates that workers have three prime needs: Interesting work, recognition for doing a good job, and being let in on things that are going on in the company.

Zig Ziglar

Appreciation, Jobs, Organization

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Customer service is just a day-in, day-out ongoing, never-ending, unremitting, persevering, compassionate, type of activity.

Leon Gorman

Inspirational, Educational, Ongoing

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Are you bored with life? Then throw yourself into some work you believe in with all your heart, live for it, die for it, and you will find happiness that you had thought could never be yours.

Dale Carnegie

Inspirational, Life, Motivational

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Revolve your world around the customer and more customers will revolve around you.

Heather Williams

Inspirational, Loyalty, Heart

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Satisfaction lies in the effort, not in the attainment, full effort is full victory.

Mahatma Gandhi

Inspirational, Motivational, Success

Mahatma Gandhi (1980). “All Men are Brothers: Autobiographical Reflections”, p.154, A&C Black

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The complaining customer represents a huge opportunity for more business.

Zig Ziglar

Business, Opportunity, Loyal Customers

"Smarter Branding Without Breaking the Bank: Five Proven Marketing Strategies You Can Use Right Now to Build Your Business at Little Or No Cost". Book by Brenda Bence (p. 91), November 7, 2011.

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If your actions inspire others to dream more, learn more, do more and become more, you are a leader.

John Quincy Adams

Inspirational, Life, Motivational

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Don't judge each day by the harvest you reap but by the seeds that you plant.

Robert Louis Stevenson

Inspirational, Life, Motivational

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There is no substitute for hard work.

Thomas A. Edison

Motivational, Perseverance, Morning

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How wonderful it is that nobody need wait a single moment before starting to improve the world.

Unknown

Inspirational, Life, Motivational

FaceBook post by Anne Frank from Dec 25, 2011

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Your most unhappy customers are your greatest source of learning.

Bill Gates

Leadership, Business, Motivation

Bill Gates (2009). “Business @ the Speed of Thought: Succeeding in the Digital Economy”, p.86, Hachette UK

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Talent wins games, but teamwork and intelligence wins championships.

Michael Jordan

Inspirational, Basketball, Sports

Michael Jordan (1994). “I can't accept not trying: Michael Jordan on the pursuit of excellence”

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