Yaron Brook Quotes

That’s why Henry Ford started paying his lowest-paid employees $5 a day in 1914, more than $110 in today’s dollars.13 He had to: Turnover at the company was 370 percent in 1913.

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• It might be said that it is the ideal of the employer to have production without employees and the ideal of the employee is to have income without work.

  

  E. F. Schumacher
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• To escape the curse of commoditization, a company has to be a game-changer, and that requires employees who are proactive, inventive and zealous.

  

  Gary Hamel
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• The real damper on employee engagement is the soggy, cold blanket of centralized authority. In most companies, power cascades downwards from the CEO. Not only are employees disenfranchised from most policy decisions, they lack even the power to rebel against egocentric and tyrannical supervisors.

  

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• We find that other employees are very enthusiastic about their fellow crew members who have disabilities-or what they previously thought of as disabilities.

  

  Carl Karcher
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• I work with CEOs and their executive teams... and very few of these people are really indifferent about their employees or their customers.

  

  Patrick Lencioni
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• When I started Victoria Principal Products, there were 22 full-time employees - they were all women.

  

  Victoria Principal
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• Top-down authority structures turn employees into bootlickers, breed pointless struggles for political advantage, and discourage dissent.

  

  Gary Hamel
  • Political
  • Turn
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• Everybody understands that you're supposed to say 'our employees are our most valuable asset' to the point where, even if it's really true, they're not going to really trust you until you've earned that - same with customers.

  

  Gabe Newell
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  • Trust
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• Only after Southwest Airlines became the most profitable airline in America did United and American challenge their long-held assumptions about how to compete. At worst, laggards follow the path of greatest familiarity. Challengers, on the other hand, follow the path of greatest opportunity, wherever it leads.

  

  Gary Hamel
  • Long
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  • America

• Good critics, who have stamped out poets' hope,Good statesmen, who pulled ruin on the state,Good patriots, who for a theory risked a cause.

  

  Elizabeth Barrett Browning
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• You know, Jesse Jackson is just trying to stir up a hornet's nest.

  

  Kenneth Blackwell
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• Really, life is so short. I can't believe I do this for a living. It's just unbelievable that Paula from Rockville, captain of the Peary pompom squad, can do this. It's the greatest thing ever.

  

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• What we think, we become.

  

  Buddha

• In documentaries, there's a truth that unfolds unnaturally, and you get to chronicle it. In narratives, you have to create the situations so that the truth will come out.

  

  Ava DuVernay
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• I was born in Oslo, Norway, but now live in the suburbs of Southwest London, right near the River Thames. It's a lovely part of the world.

  

  Alexander Hanson
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• WordPress.com is the only service of its kind that not only lets you export your data, but gives you an open source package you can run on pretty much any web host out there to run your own instance of the software. So the freedom is really in your hands.

  

  Matt Mullenweg
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• Capital goes to where it can escape taxation and be used to pay employees in sacks of rice.

  

  Walter Wriston
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• I'd pay more just to hear proper English and have everyone keep their clothes on.

  

  Lauren Graham
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• The only way to amuse some people is to slip and fall on an icy pavement.

  

  E. W. Howe
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• What I want to know is how the white man, with the blood of black people dripping off his fingers, can have the audacity to be asking black people, 'Do they hate him?' That takes a lot of nerve.

  

  Malcolm X
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• I miss improv. I hate it in a way - watching it, doing it - but only because it's so challenging and nerve wracking. Improv is the only belief system I've ever experienced that directly works on how to be. Just how to be.

  

  Ilana Glazer
  • Hate
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• I feel all right physically, but I don't feel all right showing these results. I've always been pinpoint, and right now I'm not. I go through these little slumps. Hopefully, this one is coming early and we'll get it behind us. Basically, what really hurts is we're here to win and we can't win if I don't give us a chance.

  

  Eddie Guardado
  • Chance
  • Win
  • Results

• For thousands of years, we did have death surrounding us, and we did have people die in the home. You would take care of your own end. You would do ritual processes, and you would be involved in it, and that's been taken away in the Western world.

  

  Caitlin Doughty
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• That’s why Henry Ford started paying his lowest-paid employees $5 a day in 1914, more than $110 in today’s dollars.13 He had to: Turnover at the company was 370 percent in 1913.

  

  Yaron Brook
  • Employees