Top 40 Employee Appreciation Quotes (2025 Update)

1. “Colleagues should take care of each other, have fun, celebrate success, learn by failure, look for reasons to praise not to criticize, communicate freely and respect each other.”

— Richard Branson

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2. “Praise the slightest improvement and praise every improvement. Be hearty in your approbation and lavish in your praise.”

— Dale Carnegie

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3. “Motivate them, train them, care about them and make winners out of them. We know if we treat our employees right, they’ll treat the customers right. And if customers are treated right, they’ll come back.”

— J. W. "Bill" Marriott, Jr.

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4. “Train people well enough so they can leave, treat them well enough so they don’t want to.”

— Richard Branson

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5. “At the end of the day people won’t remember what you said or did, they will remember how you made them feel.”

— Maya Angelou

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

— Stephen R. Covey

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7. “Great things in business are never done by one person, they’re done by a team of people.”

— Steve Jobs

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8. “Don’t forget, a person’s greatest emotional need is to feel appreciated.”

— H. Jackson Brown Jr.

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9. “A company’s employees are its greatest asset and your people are your product.”

— Richard Branson

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10. “Having a personality of caring about people is important. You can’t be a good leader unless you generally like people. That is how you bring out the best in them.”

— Richard Branson

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11. “It is literally true that you can succeed best and quickest by helping others to succeed.”

— Napoleon Hill

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12. “A culture is strong when people work with each other, for each other. A culture is weak when people work against each other, for themselves.”

— Simon Sinek

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13. “The most meaningful way to succeed is to help others succeed.”

— Adam Grant

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14. “When you undervalue what you do, the world will undervalue who you are.”

— Oprah Winfrey

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15. “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

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16. “Do right. Do your best. Treat others as you want to be treated.”

— Lou Holtz

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17. “If you look after your staff, they’ll look after your customers. It’s that simple.”

— Richard Branson

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18. “You can take my factories, burn up my buildings, but give me my people and I’ll build the business right back again.”

— Henry Ford

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19. “Happy employees ensure happy customers. And happy customers ensure happy shareholders – in that order.”

— Simon Sinek

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20. “When you invest in people and lift them toward their potential, they will love you for it.”

— Jim Rohn

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21. “Begin with praise and honest appreciation.”

— Dale Carnegie

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22. “Outstanding leaders go out of their way to boost the self-esteem of their personnel. If people believe in themselves, it’s amazing what they can accomplish.”

— Sam Walton

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23. “I love what I do, I love my job.”

— Pharrell Williams

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24. “Success is best when it is shared.”

— Howard Schultz

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25. “Take good care of your employees, and they’ll take good care of your customers, and the customers will come back.”

— J. Willard Marriott

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26. “The way you treat your employees is the way they will treat your customers.”

— Richard Branson

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27. “You can design and create, and build the most wonderful place in the world. But it takes people to make the dream a reality.”

— Walt Disney

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28. “There are three ways to ultimate success: The first way is to be kind. The second way is to be kind. The third way is to be kind.”

— Fred Rogers

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29. “As a leader of people, you have to be a great listener, a great motivator, be very good at praising and bringing out the best in people.”

— Richard Branson

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30. “Give Honest and Sincere Appreciation.”

— Dale Carnegie

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31. “Servant-leader ship is all about making the goals clear and then rolling your sleeves up and doing whatever it takes to help people win. In that situation, they don’t work for you, you work for them.”

— Kenneth H. Blanchard

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32. “I follow three rules: Do the right thing, do the best you can, and always show people you care.”

— Lou Holtz

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33. “Compliment people. Magnify their strengths, not their weaknesses.”

— Joyce Meyer

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34. “When a manager openly expresses his faith in an employee’s skill, he doesn’t just improve mood and motivation; he actually improves their likelihood of succeeding.”

— Shawn Achor

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35. “Always remember you matter, you’re important and you are loved, and you bring to this world things no one else can.”

— Charlie Mackesy

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36. “People are our greatest asset .”

— Dave Ulrich

Also featured in: Friday Quotes for Work

37. “Help People Reach Their Full Potential Catch Them Doing Something Right.”

— Kenneth H. Blanchard

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38. “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, not on strategies.”

— Lawrence Bossidy

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39. “The achievements of an organization are the results of the combined effort of each individual.”

— Vince Lombardi

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40. “When you make people feel important, you’re going to be ahead of the game.”

— Zig Ziglar

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