Bob Nelson Quotations

An employee's motivation is a direct result of the sum of interactions with his or her manager.

Take time to appreciate employees and they will reciprocate in a thousand ways.

It is always easier - and usually far more effective - to focus on changing your behavior than on changing the behavior of others.

You get what you reward. Be clear about what you want to get and systematically reward it.

You get the best effort from others not by lighting a fire beneath them, but by building a fire within.

People may take a job for more money, but they often leave it for more recognition.

Just the act of listening means more than you can imagine to most employees.

An open-door policy doesn't do much for a closed mind.

You can't command people to do their best; they can only command that of themselves.

Giving cash rewards is one of the least-effective means of motivating employees. While money may induce short-term involvement, it does not create motivation for the long term. Merchandise has a residual value over cash because the objects serve as reminders.

I think you need to study a piece of land and just take from what the land gives you. I think about how I can incorporate that hill over there, use a turn here, and on and on.

Our belief is this shouldn't be a jobs program, it should be a career program.

When it's available to everyone, they're less valuable.

We got off to a slow start, but got that nice run to come back and take the lead. That got us going and we played real well after that with both Robin and Mindy hitting some big three-pointers for us.

We played well in the first half, but in the second they hit their shots and we didn't and we also had some turnovers. They had a couple pretty good shooters who hit from the outside.

We pretty much provide most if not all of the kinds of jobs they are going to need in slot parlors.

We've been working on this for at least three years now, and this is a pretty positive development, ... Unfortunately, it's not the end of the story, but it helps us getting it resolved.

We got off to a good start and built a good lead by halftime. (PR-B) wasn't hitting its shots in the first half, but they shot well late in the game to get back into it.

It's kind of a taste I've never really experienced before. It's kind of a doughy, unique taste, but good!

It's a white disaster zone. I've never seen anything like it.

The girls came up with a real team effort against a real good team.

The first 600 meters are crucial. I wanted the speed runners to have an advantage here. You have to get out on this course because of the tight turns over the hill.