Employee Quotes
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We felt that the employees would take a greater interest in work if they felt they were part of the company.
William Reddington Hewlett -
If you are hired to shake up the system, do it. No one will believe you're the boss until you do one or more of the following: 1. Add a new division; 2. Lop off a present department; 3. Add new people or reassign and reward present employees; 4. Get rid of deadwood; 5. Change the method of accounting; 6. Change lawyers, accountants, or other outside services; 7. Ask a lot of questions, and demand answers by a certain date; 8. Get in touch with key people in your industry or city and arrange personal meetings; 9. Improve working conditions; 10. Update present benefit plans.
Lois Wyse
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In Japan, employees occasionally work themselves to death. It’s called Karoshi. I don’t want that to happen to anybody in my department. The trick is to take a break as soon as you see a bright light and hear dead relatives beckon.
Scott Adams -
Employee participation programs and employee ownership are important efforts to deal with powerlessness at work.
Daniel Yankelovich -
In my case, I pay a standard premium to participate in the Federal Employees' Health Benefits Plan for my wife and myself out of each month's paycheck.
Virgil Goode -
Union Rule 26: Every employee must win 'Worker of the Week' at least once, regardless of gross incompetence, obesity or rank odor.
Homer -
I love my brother and respect his talent but his present demand that I must give up my equal share of the band and that our drummer for 28 years and original partner, Steve Gorman, relinquish 100 percent of his share, reducing him to a salaried employee, is not something I could agree to.
Rich Robinson The Black Crowes -
Happy employees ensure happy customers. And happy customers ensure happy shareholders—in that order.
Simon Sinek
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Honestly, my focus is completely on the progress we're making, we fully support the decision that was made regarding that employee.
Mike Pence -
The goal should be to build a sustainable lifestyle business that does good for employees and customers - and that steadily builds wealth.
Vivek Wadhwa -
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 -
Before you can have great employees you have to put them in a position to create their own future.
Garrison Wynn -
The employees of the year, yeah we back to work. I took time off, while other rappers got jerked.
Erick Sermon -
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
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Once employees feel challenged, invigorated and productive, their efforts will naturally translate into profit and growth for the organisation.
Ricardo Semler -
The fastest way to disengage an employee is to tell him his work is meaningful only because of the paycheck.
Shawn Achor -
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 -
Studies show that women seeking power tend to be punished for doing so, because it goes against cultural bias. Women are expected to be likeable and pliant. We are also trained to expect any success we attain to come to us through men - by pleasing men, as good employees, good partners.
Catherine Mayer -
You know what, Steve Jobs is real nice to me. He lets me be an employee and that's one of the biggest honors of my life.
Steve Wozniak -
From the very first time I talked to Safeco employees, I said the reality was expenses were too high and the reality is two-thirds of our expenses are people, so the reality is there will be effects on people.
Mike McGavick
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True love exists in business. It's when Employee and Employer are amazingly grateful to have each other. We should all have true love at work.
Simon Sinek -
There's no better example of how to lead a difficult employee than to have a child. You have another kind of knowledge from your children that's actually applicable outside of childbearing.
Alissa Quart -
We’ve got customers. We’ve got suppliers. We’ve got employees. We’ve got unions. We’ve got communities. We’ve got all of these things that go into making up whether a business succeeds or fails.
Gerry Schwartz -
A boss wants to pay for results, an employee wants recognition for effort. If a boss recognizes effort, they will get even better results.
Simon Sinek