Employee famous quotes

Domestic employees are at the whim of their employers.
-- Ai-jen Poo

#Employers #Whim #Employee

I have always made it a point to know our employees, to visit every facility of our company, and to try to meet and know every single employee.
-- Akio Morita

#Trying #Made #Employee

Most of my career has been in sales. I spend 50% or more of my time with customers and employees, and I can't wait for it to be more than 50%.
-- Anne M. Mulcahy

#Careers #Waiting #Employee

I was a terrible employee. I've been fired from almost every job I've ever had, luckily, in a good way, or else I'd be stuck. I would always joke around with everybody, and no one enjoyed my humor.
-- Anthony Jeselnik

#Jobs #Way #Employee

Money is not the only thing that motivates employees. It's about making them happy.
-- Barbara Corcoran

#Employee

When you have chemistry with a potential hire, they will most likely become a great employee.
-- Barbara Corcoran

#Chemistry #Employee

Investors are employees you can never hire. We made sure to pick investors that thought like us.
-- Biz Stone

#Made #Employee #Investors

Companies that hire employees..that are deeply passionate create companies that customers are really really passionate about, and those are the companies that have strong brands.
-- Brian Chesky

#Strong #Passionate #Employee

Half of my employees are women.
-- Christie Hefner

#Half #Employee

There is a very strong linkage between U.S. banks and European banks. There are plenty of European employees that are employed by U.S. companies, and there are plenty of U.S. employees that are employed by European companies.
-- Christine Lagarde

#Strong #Linkages #Employee

Companies, however unintentionally, choke the motivation out of their employees.
-- Dan Ariely

#Motivation #Choke #Employee

A huge insight was the power of simply telling employees the truth. If things aren’t going well, tell them.
-- David M. Cote

#Employee #Insight #Wells

To make money I picked up work as a busboy, valet parker, skateboard shop employee.
-- David Spade

#Making Money #Busboys #Employee

To stabilize the nations public-employee pension systems and to prevent federal taxpayers from being billed for failed pension funds, I have introduced the Public Employee Pension Transparency Act in Congress.
-- Devin Nunes

#Congress #Taxpayers #Employee

Dhirubhai will go one day. But Reliance's employees and shareholders will keep it afloat. Reliance is now a concept in which the Ambanis have become irrelevant.
-- Dhirubhai Ambani

#One Day #Employee #Shareholders

We seem to be paying some of our employees an awful lot of money.
-- Don Ameche

#Money #Awful #Employee

If you work for and eventually lead a company, understand that companies have multiple stakeholders including employees, customers, business partners and the communities within which they operate.
-- Don Tapscott

#Community #Partners #Employee

I like Korean employees and I like Korean tenants,
-- Donald Sterling

#Korean #Tenants #Employee

A lot of executives act like their time is worth more than anyone else's. But I always respect an employee who guards his or her time, even from me.
-- Eli Broad

#Employee #Executives

More importantly, if you are in a position to hire, hire a veteran. They will be the best employees you have.
-- Eric Shinseki

#Veteran #Being The Best #Employee

Dispirited, unmotivated, unappreciated workers cannot compete in a highly competitive world.
-- Frances Hesselbein

#Unmotivated #World #Employee

Before you can have great employees you have to put them in a position to create their own future.
-- Garrison Wynn

#Employee #Position

Onboarding – How To Get Your New Employees Up To Speed In Half The Time
-- George Bradt

#Half #Speed #Employee

Sharing information with employees makes them feel invested.
-- Glen Mazzara

#Information #Sharing Information #Employee

Employees cannot become more productive in every sense of the word unless they are provided with continuous on-the-job training.
-- Gregory Balestrero

#Jobs #Training #Employee

Companies have a responsibility to train and retrain their employees.
-- Gregory Balestrero

#Responsibility #Employee #Company

Treat your employees like customers.
-- Herb Kelleher

#Hustle #Treats #Employee

You [the employees] are involved in a crusade.
-- Herb Kelleher

#Crusades #Employee

You have to treat your employees like your customers. When you treat them right they will treat your outside customers right.
-- Herb Kelleher

#Like You #Treats #Employee

Your employees come first. And if you treat your employees right, guess what? Your customers come back, and that makes your shareholders happy. Start with employees and the rest follows from that.
-- Herb Kelleher

#Firsts #Treats #Employee

You have to treat your employees like customers
-- Herb Kelleher

#Treats #Employee

Businesses want to offer solid, affordable health insurance to their employees, but it is getting harder to find every year.
-- Herb Kohl

#Years #Want #Employee

Most importantly, we want to create a company where every employee can bring their whole selves to work.
-- Indra Nooyi

#Self #Want #Employee

Success and profitability are outcomes of focusing on customers and employees, not objectives.
-- Jack Ma

#Outcomes #Employee

Always let your employees come to work with a smile.
-- Jack Ma

#Leadership #Business #Employee

Customers first, employees second, and shareholders third,
-- Jack Ma

#Firsts #Employee #Thirds

Shareholder value is a result, not a strategy . . . Your main constituencies are your employees, your customers and your products.
-- Jack Welch

#Strategy #Results #Employee

As a government employee, you can't testify against the government.
-- James Hansen

#Government #Employee

When employees are happy, they are your very best ambassadors.
-- James Sinegal

#Ambassadors #Employee

Paying your employees well is not only the right thing to do but it makes for good business.
-- James Sinegal

#Good Business #Employee #Wells

City employees will be hired and promoted because of their abilities - without outside interference.
-- Jane Byrne

#Cities #Employee #Ability

Build with advocacy, follow with influence. Your employees are your biggest brand advocates.
-- Jay Baer

#Influence #Advocacy #Employee

You eat the room service employees every time?” Denise asked, shocked. “Of course. But don’t fret on their behalf. I always tip well.
-- Jeaniene Frost

#Room Service #Rooms #Employee

I was never a very dependable employee for anything. Perfect for the actor's life!
-- John C. Reilly

#Perfect #Actors #Employee

Despite these hurdles, manufacturers in the U.S. and their employees are doing remarkable work.
-- John Engler

#Employee #Hurdle #Remarkable

If there is to be peace in our industrial life let the employer recognize his obligation to his employees - at least to the degree set forth in existing statutes.
-- John L. Lewis

#Degrees #Employers #Employee

AFSCME stands for the American Federation of State, County and Municipal Employees.
-- Judy Woodruff

#States #Employee #County

I have 120 employees on the road every day, and about 30 other employees off the road.
-- Kenny Chesney

#Employee

Taking care of your employees is extremely important and very, very visible.
-- Larry Ellison

#Important #Care #Employee

I was once an employee myself, so I know what employees want.
-- Li Ka-shing

#Want #Employee

The time you spend with your best (employees) is, quite simply, your most productive time.
-- Marcus Buckingham

#Employee #Productive

Business is not a science; it is not susceptible to experiments that can be controlled and replicated. Everything in business is too unpredictable for that - every business, employee, product, market is different and keeps changing.
-- Margaret Heffernan

#Different #Employee #Unpredictable

Producers are now employees, not creators.
-- Marshall Herskovitz

#Employee #Producers #Creator

The best organizations regard the nurturing of their employees as a spiritual mandate.
-- Nancy Pearcey

#Spiritual #Organization #Employee

Karl Marx, a visionary, figured out that you can control a slave much better by convincing him he is an employee.
-- Nassim Nicholas Taleb

#Visionaries #Slave #Employee

Websites promote you 24/7: No employee will do that.
-- Paul Cookson

#Technology #Design #Employee

Firing employees, that's unfortunately a part of doing business.
-- Paul Wolfowitz

#Employee

It's great to be able to employ people who other people wouldn't consider viable employees.
-- Queen Latifah

#People #Able #Employee

There is no contest between the company that buys the grudging compliance of its work force and the company that enjoys the enterprising participation of its employees
-- Ricardo Semler

#Leadership #Force #Employee

A company's employees are its greatest asset and your people are your product
-- Richard Branson

#People #Assets #Employee

The way you treat your employees is the way they will treat your customers
-- Richard Branson

#Way #Treats #Employee

If you run a business, put on top your employees, then your consumers, and then your shareholders.
-- Richard Branson

#Running #Powerful #Employee

I've said many times that I'd be thrilled to sell the airline to the employees and our guys said no, we'll take all the money, anyway.
-- Robert Crandall

#Guy #Said #Employee

Our goal isn't to close Wal-Mart down. It is to make it a better, more humane company toward its employees and the communities it is in.
-- Robert Greenwald

#Goal #Community #Employee

Leaders have followers, managers have employees. Managers make widgets, leaders make change.
-- Seth Godin

#Leader #Followers #Employee

I'm very, very bullish about our prospects, and as I tell our board, as I tell our employees, this is the time to invest. There's so much opportunity. Let's just invest in that opportunity, and really get after it.
-- Steve Ballmer

#Opportunity #Boards #Employee

I am also committed to providing city employees with housing assistance.
-- Thomas Menino

#Cities #Employee #Committed

Highly engaged employees make the customer experience. Disengaged employees break it.
-- Timothy R. Clark

#Break #Employee #Customer Experience

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

#Employee #Victoria #Principal

The basic principle is I command, and my employees carry it out immediately.
-- Wang Jianlin

#Principles #Employee #Command

If a female employee is offended, a boss would like her to tell him, not sue him.
-- Warren Farrell

#Boss #Female #Employee

We felt that the employees would take a greater interest in work if they felt they were part of the company.
-- William Redington Hewlett

#Politics #Economy #Employee

I would tell startups to just keep your head down, keep building. Your contingency plan, if you have one, should be because you are still spending more than you make and you still don't have a line of sight for that J curve. That is the most important contingency. Because otherwise you are betraying that equation to your cofounders, to your investors, to your employees and to your customers.
-- Chamath Palihapitiya

#Important #Building #Employee

Sales pays for the company. Employees who don't “get” that are part of the problem.
-- Donal Daly

#Pay #Problem #Employee

American managers often say they would like to pay their employees more, they argue that they can't afford to do so and, at the same time, keep the prices of their products competitive. As one CEO recently explained, "I would treat my employees as well as Starbuck's treats theirs, if I could charge the equivalent for my product of three dollars for a cup of latte!"
-- James O'Toole

#Arguing #Ceo #Employee

I've given my email address to all 3,000 T-Mobile stores. Serious customer escalations come directly to me. Customers get a kick out of me responding to them, and the employees do, too.
-- John J. Legere

#Serious #Employee

When I go to T-Mobile retail stores, I jokingly tell the employees that everybody between me and them is the enemy. In effect, what I mean is that in my paramilitary hierarchy, if I can hear them and they can hear me, everything will be fine. All we need to do is make sure the entire company understands that it's their job to pass information between us. And so far so good.
-- John J. Legere

#Mean #Enemy #Employee

I tell employee of T-Mobile, "Listen, if some of this doesn't make sense to you, what should make sense is the reason I'm telling you - I respect you as an owner and as a partner and I'm going to tell you this all the time. Feel free to tune out."
-- John J. Legere

#Reason #Employee #Make Sense

Research has shown that one's level of intelligence is the single most predictive component of professional success - better than any other ability, trait, or even job experience. Yet, too often, employees are selected because of their likeability, presence, or charisma.
-- Justin Menkes

#Employee #Charisma #Ability

The agenda should be crafted by the employee who reports to the manager not the manager.
-- Keith Rabois

#Agendas #Should #Employee

MBA programs are underwritten by large companies and they succeed at producing future employees of large companies. In that regard, they are doing exactly what they are supposed to be doing.
-- Lewis Schiff

#Mba Programs #Succeed #Employee

No organization is going to be successful unless it places a high value on its employees and engages them in the work that it's doing.
-- Mary Burke

#Successful #Organization #Employee

Business operators that really deeply care about their employees and consumers deliver the right response every day.
-- Michael J. Silverstein

#Care #Really Deep #Employee

The better a work environment is, the better it is for the employer - not just the employee.
-- Nina Turner

#Environment #Employers #Employee

The journey from employee to entrepreneur was a complex and taxing one for an immigrant like me.
-- Ruchi Sanghvi

#Journey #Entrepreneur #Employee

I interview every employeeand I have 3000 employees. It's an obsessive sickness.
-- Stephen Starr

#Interviews #Sickness #Employee

Having a 9-to-5 workday in which work is left behind when one leaves the office is no longer the norm as employers expect employees to be available outside of work.
-- Stewart D. Friedman

#Office #Employers #Employee

Great companies connect to the heartstrings of their employees to make their purposes known.
-- Don Yaeger

#Heart #Purpose #Employee

There was a time when the contractual relationship between the employer and the employee was supposed to be none of the public's business. That time has passed.
-- Frank Murphy

#Relationship #Employers #Employee

Onboarding – How To Get Your New Employees Up To Speed In Half The Time
-- George Bradt

#Half #Speed #Employee

The sense of loss of control over what happens to you at work (and thus in your life is vital). This further involves a sense of fairness as in, I did my part and look where it got me! "The deal," the contract between employee and employer has eroded and been replaced with unilateral power by the organization over the employee.
-- Judith M Bardwick

#Loss #Fairness #Employee