20 Best Quotes on Employee Engagement and Leadership

  1. “We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence then, is not an act, but a habit.” – Aristotle
  2. “The only way to do great work is to love what you do.” – Steve Jobs
  3. “Appreciate everything your associates do for the business. Nothing else can quite substitute for a few well-chosen, well-timed, sincere words of praise. They’re absolutely free and worth a fortune.” – Sam Walton
  4. “This is the only country in the world where today’s employee is tomorrow’s employer.” – Marco Rubio
  5. “Your number one customers are your people. Look after employees first and then customers last.” – Ian Hutchinson, author of People Glue
  6. “When people are financially invested, they want a return. When people are emotionally invested, they want to contribute.” – Simon Sinek
  7. “When leaders throughout an organization take an active, genuine interest in the people they manage, when they invest real time to understand employees at a fundamental level, they create a climate for greater morale, loyalty, and yes, growth.” – Patrick Lencioni
  8. “Employee engagement is the emotional commitment an employee has to the organization and its goals.” – Kevin Kruze
  9. “Always treat your employees exactly as you want them to treat your best customers.” – Stephen R. Covey
  10. “Everyone wants to be appreciated, so if you appreciate someone, don’t keep it a secret.” Mary Kay Ash
  11. “If your actions inspire others to dream more, learn more, do more and become more, you are a leader.” John Quincy Adams
  12. “The pessimist complains about the wind. The optimist expects it to change. The leader adjusts the sails.” – John Maxwell
  13. “The first responsibility of a leader is to define reality. The last is to say thank you. In between, the leader is a servant.” Max DePree
  14. “Before you are a leader, success is all about growing yourself. When you become a leader, success is all about growing others.” – Jack Welch
  15. “The nation will find it very hard to look up to the leaders who are keeping their ears to the ground.” Sir Winston Churchill
  16. “Become the kind of leader that people would follow voluntarily, even if you had no title or position.” Brian Tracy
  17. “A great person attracts great people and knows how to hold them together.” – Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe
  18. “Effective leadership is not about making speeches or being liked; leadership is defined by results not attributes.” – Peter Drucker
  19. “The best executive is the one who has sense enough to pick good men to do what he wants done, and self-restraint enough to keep from meddling with them while they do it.” – Theodore Roosevelt
  20. “People buy into the leader before they buy into the vision.” – John Maxwell