Welcome to our collection of turnover quotes, where insightful reflections on the concept of turnover await you. Whether you’re an entrepreneur, a manager, or simply someone interested in the dynamics of change within organizations, these quotes offer wisdom and perspective on the inevitable ebb and flow of personnel in the workforce. Turnover, both voluntary and involuntary, is a ubiquitous aspect of modern business, and understanding its nuances can be key to fostering growth, resilience, and innovation within a company.
Within these pages, you’ll encounter a diverse array of perspectives from thought leaders, business moguls, and management gurus, each shedding light on different facets of turnover. From discussions on the challenges it presents to the opportunities it unveils, these quotes encapsulate the essence of turnover in all its complexity. Whether you seek inspiration, guidance, or simply a deeper understanding of this ever-relevant topic, our curated selection aims to provoke thought and spark meaningful dialogue. So, without further ado, delve into the wisdom of turnover quotes below, and discover insights to enrich your journey in the world of business and beyond.
Managers tend to blame their turnover problems on everything under the sun, while ignoring the crux of the matter: people don’t leave jobs; they leave managers. Travis Bradberry
When determining appropriate levels of compensation, management must determine if the employee turnover rate is too low, too high, or just right. If turnover rate is high enough to adversely impact the entity’s performance, then employee compensation is probably too low. Jason Chaffetz
It is really hard to win in this league if you don’t do three things: If you don’t win the free throw battle, the rebounding battle and the turnover battle, it’s really difficult. Billy Donovan
If you win the turnover battle and the explosive play battle in the same game, you win it 98 percent of the time. Now, can you win it with only winning one and losing one? Sure, but if you lose both of ’em, you only win 2 percent of the games where that occurrence happens. Tom Herman
In my case, I estimate that the members of the British Chiropractic Association have an annual turnover of ?100m, and the BCA decided to sue me personally. I was very close to backing down and apologising for an article that was fair and accurate. Simon Singh
Every year is a new year, and when you look at the turnover year to year, teams that made the playoffs last year aren’t a guarantee to make the playoffs this year. Connor McDavid
Most writing staffs have this crazy high turnover, and then everyone’s really miserable, and I don’t understand that. I don’t know why you don’t grow people to then be able to take over as you. That’s how I can have more shows. Shonda Rhimes
We’ve got a low turnover management group and executive group who’ve grown up in the business. Fred L. Turner
The early music I heard was Top of the Pops. But in bedrooms, around the house with my brother playing the Sex Pistols, Sham 69 and the Ham and all these groups then going into that sort of mod turnover scene and then going into the New Romantics scene the coming of age myself in the mid-eighties and into the noughties, it was changing. Sean Dyche
The turnover of fashion is just so quick and so throwaway, and I think that is a big part of the problem. There is no longevity. Alexander McQueen
In terms of sustainability and what we eat and what its footprint is on the environment and the consequences of eating one thing versus another, obviously it makes a lot of sense to be eating insects. They’re incredibly plentiful. They’ve got a very short turnover rate. You could be eating termites. Mary Roach
I think high turnover is definitively the investor’s enemy, so you don’t want to bring a high-turnover philosophy to this business. You want to have a long-term philosophy. John C. Bogle
I’ve really enjoyed my work in television, but the problem for me is the turnover of directors every week. Robert Carlyle
I think the model of the Championship should be reconsidered, because the turnover of owners, keep changing all the time every one, two, three years, is not really healthy system for the fans, for the clubs – this is because it is really not sustainable to stay in the Championship. Andrea Radrizzani
By starting to pay attention to our natural soundscapes, businesses can reduce staff turnover, increase productivity, and increase profits. Julian Treasure
If you have a busy natural foods store in your community, give their bulk cornmeal a try: high turnover means the product will most likely be fresh. And if the cornmeal is organic, all the better. Jeremy Jackson
Think about the deflections. The offense can’t score every play. They’re just trying to get a good shot. If I can deflect a pass, even if it doesn’t cause a turnover, it will throw their timing off half-a-second. That half-a-second might mess up their shot. Draymond Green
I’m a lot less precious than I used to be about putting things out, for better or for worse. The result of a public that has a very high consumption rate and turnover rate is people listen to more music but spend less time with individual bits of music. Trent Reznor
Companies are recognizing that paid leave reduces training and turnover costs, that it’s a formula for recruiting and retaining good workers. Tom Perez
Men can have a huge turnover of sponsorship and still survive a lot better than the women. But the women’s ratings are better, at least at home in the United States than in the men’s tennis. Billie Jean King
People don’t value strongly enough how much time they spend in the office. Imagine you could work with people you love – wouldn’t work be great and staff turnover be lower? And your productivity higher? Howard Lutnick
What Wall Street is, they’re market makers. Wall Street’s business model is making money on velocity of money. They’re a click industry. That’s what Wall Street is. They make a lot of money when there’s a lot of turnover. And they make a lot of money when that velocity is fast. Laurence D. Fink
Football is one of those games that definitely relates to life in a lot of ways. Everything can be going good, and just like that, you have a turnover. Things are going south, you’re going the opposite direction. How are you going to recover from it? That’s the beauty in this game. Torrey Smith
I believe in term limits. I believe the country would be hugely better off if we had more turnover in Congress. Bill Flores
We started the 10/10 objective in 2011, and that time, our turnover was about Rs. 15,000 crore. We would like to have a turnover of Rs. 1,50,000 crore by 2021. This will be through high growth in domestic and international operations as well as through acquisitions. Adi Godrej
The industry’s much quicker. The turnover with models – I cannot keep up. And in my day, we had so much personality. We probably caused a lot more trouble, but it was fun. Carolyn Murphy
The NBA is a difficult thing because the head coaches, they definitely have one of the more difficult jobs and one of the jobs with, I guess, little amount of security as possible. There’s so much turnover all the time. Joe Harris
The ’70s were a time of turmoil and turnover. But I grew up here. I always wanted to play here. Carlton Fisk
Jobs have become more precarious and staff turnover has increased while union membership has plummeted, weakening workplace solidarity. Owen Jones
When you play professionally, you get accustomed to turnover. Players come and go – they get injured, they get transferred, they get cut from the team. Coaches are hired, and coaches are fired. It’s just part of the world you live in. Tim Howard
When you have turnover, somebody not work out, they’d leave, it really affects a young organization because you don’t have your process down pat. You got people coming and going who are affecting your direction. It’s just really hard to start from scratch and quickly put your direction in place and be able to stick to it. Michael Waltrip
Every game, well most of them, come down to turnovers and the turnover battle. Julius Peppers
A turnover in the red zone is a costly mistake and we talk about that a lot, scoring points in the red zone, touchdowns. Making sure we are getting points. Daniel Jones
One of the symptoms of a losing streak is a turnover of top executives. It’s a revolving door. Rosabeth Moss Kanter
The turnover with models – I cannot keep up. And in my day, we had so much personality. We probably caused a lot more trouble, but it was fun. Carolyn Murphy
The rationale for tenure is still valid. But the system has turned the academy into one of the most conservative and costly institutions in the country. Yes, conservative: Economists joke that their discipline advances one funeral at a time, but many fields must wait for wholesale generational turnover before new approaches take hold. Francis Fukuyama
If I miss a shot, make a turnover – move on to the next play, don’t compound the mistake by getting down. Eric Bledsoe
When I returned from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology in 1972, my father was running a forging business with a turnover of Rs 3.5 crore. But I had no patience and wanted to grow the business via exports. Baba Kalyani
This is a young man’s game, so there’s always a lot of turnover. The NFL has always been that way. Matthew Slater
If you win the turnover battle, you’re gonna win more than you lose – and quite a bit more than you lose. Tom Herman
I am aware that one should always make room for renewal in politics. A democracy is the healthier for the turnover of the depth of talent there is in its community. Bob Brown
The hardest thing was launching ‘OK!’ magazine; the easiest thing was Channel 5. ‘The Express’ was my defining moment because our turnover was less than ?100m with 150 employees. Richard Desmond
Travelex has grown into a global business in just 25 years. The acquisition of Thomas Cook’s Global & Financial Services has created a business that would have had a combined turnover of U.S. $28.4 billion in 2000. Lloyd Dorfman
The DSS offices are not given enough funding, their staff are poorly paid and are driven to distraction by the amount of work they have to do. There is frequent turnover of staff. Morale is extremely low. Working with desperate people all day is very dispiriting; their unhappiness rubs off on you. Sue Townsend
Turnover can be one of the most expensive problems at a company. Shawn Achor
Typically, there’s about 20, 25 percent turnover every year. So, every three or four years with the exception of, as is the case with the Patriots and the quarterback, you have a roster turnover. Jeff Fisher
When I see a league with a lot of change and turnover, yes, there’s a lot of big narratives out there, but I see opportunity. Erik Spoelstra
Since the publication of ‘Evicted’, I have had countless conversations with concerned families across America. Teachers in under-served communities have told me about high classroom turnover rates, which hinder students’ ability to reach their full potential. Matthew Desmond
Commissions add up, taxes are a big drag, margin ain’t cheap. A good accountant costs money as well. The math on this one is obvious, yet investors often fail to recognize it: Keep your costs low and your turnover lower, and you will win in the end. Barry Ritholtz
Employers who recognize the importance of investing in their workforce have a more productive workforce, a more efficient workforce, a more loyal workforce, less turnover, and, in the private sector, more profitable. Valerie Jarrett
A box-office number is good for a producer and the industry to keep the turnover game on, but as an actor, I give importance to script. I will turn down a script, even if it guarantees Rs. 100 crore, when I’m not convinced with it. Naga Chaitanya
Nine times out of 10, if you win the game, it starts with the turnover battle. Lamar Jackson
Throughout the game, there are going to be things that go on – when you make a bad play or have a bad turnover – you don’t want to visualize that. Aaron Gordon