Employee Quotes

• In the movies, the writer is just the servant, the employee.

  

  Salman Rushdie
  • Movies
  • Writer
  • Employee

• Big Internet companies on average are capable of generating revenue of $1 million per employee, and that compares to 10 to 20 percent of that which is normally generated by traditional offline businesses of comparable size.

  

  Yuri Milner
  • Internet
  • Size
  • Employee

• I don't believe that employers should have access to an employee's private passwords, including Facebook.

  

  Larry Bucshon
  • Believe
  • Facebook
  • Employee

• The best way to invest corporate profits is to give them to the employees.

  

  Ricardo Semler
  • Giving
  • Employee
  • Corporate

• Just as you would not permit a fellow employee to steal a piece of office equipment, you shouldn't let anyone walk away with the time of his fellow managers.

  

  Andy Grove
  • Time
  • Piece
  • Managers

• Management must provide employees with tools that will enable them to do their jobs better, and with encouragement to use these tools. In particular, they must collect data.

  

  George E. P. Box
  • Management
  • Particular
  • Encouragement

• The sad news is, nobody owes you a career. Your career is literally your business. You own it as a sole proprietor. You have one employee: yourself. You need to accept ownership of your career, your skills and the timing of your moves.

  

  Andy Grove
  • Business
  • Career
  • Sad

• Does the difficulty in ensuring each and every employee of such companies is not tied to insurgent groups and not potentially providing useful targeting information to these groups argue against continuing to employ such firms unless there is no alternative?

  

  Olympia Snowe
  • Information
  • Companies
  • Insurgent

• Large companies cannot finance political parties as their shareholders and employees have different political views.

  

  Mikhail Khodorkovsky
  • Different
  • Political
  • Finance

• It's a violation of federal law for an officer or an employee of the United States government to make or authorize an expenditure or obligation exceeding the amount we've appropriated.

  

  Ted Yoho
  • Law
  • Government
  • Employee

• On the business side, innovative leaders are beginning to wake up to the fact that this non-stop work trend is bad for business: Google Ireland tested a program called Dublin Goes Dark, where employees turned over their phones at the end of each work day. It seems like a sea change is ahead.

  

  Katrina Onstad
  • Leader
  • Google
  • Innovative

• Accept that no matter where you go to work, you are not an employee you are a business with one employee, you. Nobody owes you a career. You own it, as a sole proprietor.

  

  Andy Grove
  • Work
  • Business
  • Career

• I've been an employee all my life. Would I wish, if I could rewind it, to have gone down a different route? Possibly, but I've had a great time. Anyway I'm not ruling it out; I could still buy a business.

  

  Stuart Rose
  • Different
  • Wish
  • Stills

• Under current law, most Americans can sue their HMO or insurance company if it denies care and a patient dies or is injured as a result. Again, most employees of small businesses already can sue their HMO. Only those employees who work in companies with "self-insured" plans are not able to sue, as these plans operate under the federal Employee Retirement, Insurance, Security Act.

  

  Allen Boyd
  • Work
  • Small
  • Law

• The United Auto Workers is AARP in an Edsel: It has three times as many retirees and widows as 'workers' (I use the term loosely). GM has 96,000 employees but provides health benefits to a million people.

  

  Mark Steyn
  • People
  • Health
  • Term

• When I think of organizations, I think of the capabilities an organization has more than its morphology or structure. The ability of an organization to have a shared purpose and the ability for employees to be productive are critical capabilities for most organizations today.

  

  Dave Ulrich
  • Thinking
  • Purpose
  • Capability

• Just as important, we need a new dedication to opening avenues for employee participation and motivation through profit-sharing and innovative programs of job enrichment.

  

  Charles H. Percy
  • Important
  • Job
  • motivation

• Is there any fairness in a system where a group of people can borrow a bunch of money to buy a company and pay themselves millions of dollars in dividends and fees, while the company itself ends up bankrupt and its employees lose their jobs, health insurance and pensions?

  

  William D. Cohan
  • People
  • Fairness
  • Pension

• Union Rule 26: Every employee must win 'Worker of the Week' at least once, regardless of gross incompetence, obesity or rank odor.

  

  Homer
  • Regardless
  • Employee
  • Worker

• I remember in that red leisure suit I sort of felt like a Pizza Hut employee, and the white one was the ultimate, with the white turtleneck collar, that was the ultimate in bad taste.

  

  Johnny Depp
  • Employee
  • Pizza Hut
  • Leisure suit

• I was once an employee myself, so I know what employees want.

  

  Li Ka-shing
  • Employee

• Employee loyalty begins with employer loyalty. Your employees should know that if they do the job they were hired to do with a reasonable amount of competence and efficiency, you will support them.

  

  Harvey Mackay
  • Support
  • Loyalty
  • Efficiency

• If the world operates as one big market, every employee will compete with every person anywhere in the world who is capable of doing the same job. There are lots of them and many of them are hungry.

  

  Andy Grove
  • World
  • Job
  • Market

• Let no one suppose that the words doctor and patient can disguise from the parties the fact that they are employer and employee.

  

  George Bernard Shaw
  • Words
  • Doctor
  • Parties

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