Your employees come first. And if you treat your employees right, guess what? Your customers come back, and that makes your shareholders happy. Start with employees and the rest follows from that.

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"A company is stronger if it is bound by love rather than by fear."

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- Dwight D. Eisenhower

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"Pay attention to those employees who respectfully ask why. They are demonstrating an interest in their jobs and exhibiting a curiosity that could eventually translate into leadership ability."

- Harvey Mackay

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"Leaders can let you fail and yet not let you be a failure."

- Stanley McChrystal

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- Jack Welch

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