Staffing Quotes

“To win in the marketplace you must first win in the workplace.”

— Doug Conant – former CEO of Campbell Soup

“You can’t sell it outside if you can’t sell it inside.”

— Stan Slap – CEO of SLAP

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

— Stephen R. Covey – author & businessman

“Employee engagement is an investment we make for the privilege of staying in business.”

— Ian Hutchinson – Life & Work engagement strategist

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

— Timothy R. Clark – founder of TR Clark Associates

“The way your employees feel is the way your customers will feel. And if your employees don’t feel valued, neither will your customers.”

— Sybil F. Stershic – founder of Quality Service Marketing

“Clients do not come first. Employees come first. If you take care of your employees, they will take care of the clients.”

— Richard Branson – founder of The Virgin Group

“Create caring and robust connections between every employee and their work, customers, leaders, managers, and the organization to achieve results that matter to everyone in this sentence.”

— David Zinger – author, coach & consultant

“People leave when they don’t feel appreciated. That’s why we’ve made recognition a really high value. Our business is people-capability first; then you satisfy customers; then you make money.”

— David Novak – former CEO of YUM! Brands

“The responsibility of a company is to serve the customer. The responsibility of leadership is to serve their people so that their people may better serve the customer. If leaders fail to serve their people first, both customer and company will suffer.”

— Simon Sinek -marketing consultant

“Treating employees benevolently shouldn’t be viewed as an added cost that cuts into profits, but as a powerful energizer that can grow the enterprise into something far greater than one leader could envision.”

— Harold Schultz – CEO of Starbucks

“If recruiting is a people business, why aren’t we becoming masters of how to understand people?”

— Glen Cathey – Head of Digital Strategy at Randstad

“I didn’t choose staffing. We all fell into it and we all fell in love with it.”

— Susan Yule – CEO of American Red Cross

“No one can teach their employees how to smile. They should be smiling even before you hired them.”

— Arte Nathan – President and COO at Strategic Development Worldwide

“At this stage, I am convinced that nothing we do is more important than hiring and developing people. At the end of the day, you bet on people and just not on strategies.”

— Larry Bossidy – Former Chairman and CEO of Honeywell International Inc

“Hiring wrong people is the fastest way to undermine sustainable business.”

— Kevin J. Donaldson – Business Coach

“Being willing to do something different will often help you rise to the top where others don’t. Well behaved job seekers rarely land their dream job. Be willing to break the rules!”

— Harry Urschel – Managing Partner at Hansen Back

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