Richard Branson Employees Quotes & Sayings

Your employees are your company's real competitive advantage. They're the ones making the magic happen-so long as their needs are being met. — Richard Branson

Often you can see power lines running alongside the street. Unless current is flowing through them, there is no light. The power line is you and I! The current is God! We have the power to allow the current to flow through us and thus to generate the light of the world: JESUS - or to refuse to be used and, thus, allow the darkness to spread. — Mother Teresa

I am the man who comes and goes between the bar and the telephone booth. Or, rather:that man is called 'I' and you know nothing else about him, just as this station is called only 'station' and beyond it there exists nothing except the unanswered signal of a telephone ringing in a dark room of a distant city. — Italo Calvino

There's a word people in business use a lot: disruptive. The market can never be stable, the best it can be is falling apart in useful ways. Like the universe in general, really. To disrupt the market in your favour is now seen as being the ultimate achievement. Create a climate of absolute uncertainty, continual fear about enormous change, and you'll see people's . . . well, I was about to say 'true selves,' but they don't really have true selves, they're continually falling apart too . . . you'll see people concentrate on looking after themselves and their own, grabbing for familiar symbols. The right . . . brands, shall we say, can prosper hugely then, in the ultimate disruption. — Paul Cornell

As for myself, I do not believe that such a person as Jesus Christ ever existed; but as the people are inclined to superstition, it is proper not to oppose them. — Napoleon Bonaparte

the modern rejection of imitation does not mean that human beings escape mimesis in any way; in fact, this "rejection" is a product of already intensified mimetic desire. Since the modern world is characterized by the dominion of internal mimesis - in which imitable role models transform into obstacles worthy of hatred - imitation merely lurks in the underground, where its hegemony is even more absolute. The enemy brothers of internal mimesis adamantly reject imitation and are resolute about their difference from one another; what they miss, however, is that their need to differ only increases their identicalness, as they become more exact mirror reflections of one another. — Wolfgang Palaver

I just feel that getting out there physically and protecting New York, putting my arms around everyone and protecting them ... to see this happen to our city and our community. — Sigourney Weaver

If we all realized that we have limited time on Earth then we would not spend our time hating each other. — Avijeet Das

Give your employees a mission that matches their ambitions. When you challenge people, they surprise you. — Richard Branson

The first thing that has to be recognized is that one cannot train someone to be passionate
it's either in their DNA or it's not. — Richard Branson

If you run a business, put on top your employees, then your consumers, and then your shareholders. — Richard Branson

The way you treat your employees is the way they will treat your customers — Richard Branson

It isn't effective or productive to force your employees to do anything. Choice empowers people and makes for a more content workforce. — Richard Branson

If you look for the best in your employees, they'll flourish. If you criticize or look for the worst, they'll shrivel up. We all need lots of watering. — Richard Branson

Loyal employees in any company create loyal customers, who in turn create happy shareholders. — Richard Branson

I have always believed that the way you treat your employees is the way they will treat your customers, and that people flourish when they are praised. Sir — Richard Branson

Clients do not come first. Employees come first. If you take care of your employees, they will take care of the clients. — Richard Branson

If possible, forget the past. Look forward to the future. — Henry Watkins Allen

Your company should act as a springboard for ambitious employees, not a set of shackles. — Richard Branson

A company's employees are its greatest asset and your people are your product — Richard Branson

Crime is the soul of lust. What would pleasure be if it were not accompanied by crime? It is not the object of debauchery that excites us, rather the idea of evil. — Marquis De Sade

I've always resented the smug statements of politicians, media commentators, corporate executives who talked of how, in America, if you worked hard you would become rich. The meaning of that was if you were poor it was because you hadn't worked hard enough. I knew this was a lie, about my father and millions of others, men and women who worked harder than anyone, harder than financiers and politicians, harder than anybody if you accept that when you work at an unpleasant job that makes it very hard work indeed. — Howard Zinn

So well do I love you, I go to my god singing your praises. When I meet my father, I will tell him I fought beside you. — Janet Morris

I said, 'Then whered the other story come from? ... '
He said, 'It come in to my mynd.'
I said, 'You mean you made it up.'
He said, 'Wel no I dint make it up you cant make up nothing in your head no moren you can make up what you see. You know what I mean may be what you see aint all ways there so you cud reach out and touch it but its there some kynd of way and it come from some where. That place Hagmans Il I use to wunner about it every time we come by it til finely that story come in to my head. That story cudnt come out of no where cud it so it musve come out of some where. Parbly it ben in that place from time back way back or may be in a nother place only the idear of it come to me there. That don't make no odds. That storys jus what ever it is and thats what storys are. — Russell Hoban

A company is people ... employees want to know ... am I being listened to or am I a cog in the wheel? People really need to feel wanted. — Richard Branson

As an artist, expectations are basically your enemy. If you're truly making something to make it, then you're not thinking about anything else except what you're making. — Kevin Drew