Top 49 Employee And Company Quotes
#1. Every company that has an economist working for him has one employee too many.
Warren Buffett
#2. The underpinnings of the alliance: the company helps the employee transform his career; the employee helps the company transform.
Reid Hoffman
#3. An education system is best belittled when the so-called educated gets hired by a company that's owned by a so-called dropout.
Mokokoma Mokhonoana
#4. Every employee can affect your company's brand, not just the front-line employees that are paid to talk to your customers.
Tony Hsieh
#5. The masters and overseers were so good at employee development, in their absence, the employees still achieved the company's mission
Darnell Lamont Walker
#6. Employers have gone away from the idea that an employee is a long-term asset to the company, someone to be nurtured and developed, to a new notion that they are disposable.
Barbara Ehrenreich
#7. They believe if employees are treated right and well compensated, they will be loyal to the company. A loyal employee is worth his or her weight in gold.
Serena Simpson
#8. When an employee asks why the company does things a certain way, and you can explain the logical reason, then the employee knows what she's doing is valid.
Harvey MacKay
#9. I have never left the company. I keep a tiny residual salary to this day because that's where my loyalty should be forever. I want to be an "employee" on the company data base. I won't engineer, I'd rather be basically retired, due to my family. (talking about his relationship with Apple Inc)
Steve Wozniak
#10. 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
#11. Sales pays for the company. Employees who don't "get" that are part of the problem.
Donal Daly
#12. It is never an idea, technology, market forces, or access to capital that makes a company innovative. What differentiates an innovative company from an average company is the people working inside the company.
Jag Randhawa
#13. Employee ideas illustrate the profound understanding of a company's capabilities and customers that only people working on the front-lines can possess.
Alan G. Robinson
#14. For a company to excel, employees must be reassured that self-interest, not the company's, is their foremost priority. We believe an employee who puts himself first will be motivated to perform.
Ricardo Semler
#15. Regardless of whether you are an entrepreneur or whether you are an employee of a large company, the absolute prerequisite is that you must know your stuff. There is no substitute for this.
Fred C. Koch
#16. If I had to run a company on three measures, those measures would be customer satisfaction, employee satisfaction and cash flow. Jack Welch, former CEO of GE
Anonymous
#17. My first job in L.A. was actually playing an employee in a Best Buy commercial, but I played a bad employee at another store. I also worked at a commercial casting company running cameras and session directing.
Timothy Simons
#18. Certainly, we continue to bring in new people. We'll hire, net new, over 4,000 people this year, and attract great people into the company. I'm very bullish about the employee base and what it can accomplish.
Steve Ballmer
#19. Every employee, not just the senior people, should know how a company is doing.
Jack Welch
#20. Contrary to what you think, your company will be a lot more productive if you refuse to tolerate competition among your employees.
Alfie Kohn
#21. Recently, I was asked if I was going to fire an employee who made a mistake that cost the company $600,000. No, I replied, I just spent $600,000 training him. Why would I want somebody to hire his experience?
Thomas J. Watson
#22. If you have the opportunity to go be an early employee at a company that's just going crazy, and you believe it's the next Facebook or Google, you should go join that company.
Sam Altman
#23. Without doubt, there are lots of ways to measure the pulse of a business. But if you have employee engagement, customer satisfaction, and cash flow right, you can be sure your company is healthy and on the way to winning.
Jack Welch
#24. As the company grows and about this 25 or so employee size, your main job shifts from building a great product to building a great company.
Sam Altman
#25. Which came first:
the change-ready company or the change-ready employee?
Lorii Myers
#26. The world is a bell curve. Classroom test scores, employee performance in a company or how many people really, really like you. No matter the population you're studying, they always fit neatly across the standard deviations of the famous bell curve.
Simon Sinek
#27. Once a few Facebook employees put together a promising idea and start a company, that's very exciting to people. I happen to think being a Facebook employee is really correlated with good ideas.
Dustin Moskovitz
#28. Engaging in social business is beneficial to a company because it leverages on business competencies to address social issues, involves one-time investment with sustainable results, and produces other positive effects such as employee motivation and improved organizational culture.
Muhammad Yunus
#29. Any company trying to compete ... must figure out a way to engage the mind of every employee.
Jack Welch
#30. A company invites their employees to sign up for a plan where every time they get a raise, some part of that raise goes to increasing their contribution rate to the 401k plan. In the first company we convinced to adopt this plan, saving rates tripled.
Richard Thaler
#31. When you found a company, you have the original vision, you make all the original decisions, you know every employee, you kind of know every aspect of the product architecture and its limitations.
Ben Horowitz
#32. If you talk to say any of the first 40 or 50 employees, they all feel like they were a part of the founding of the company.
Sam Altman
#33. Fire fast when it's not working. It's better for the company, it's also better for the employee.
Sam Altman
#34. Everybody has a product to sell - no matter whether you're an employee, a founder, or an investor. It's true even if your company consists of just you and your computer. Look around. If you don't see any salespeople, you're the salesperson.
Peter Thiel
#35. 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
#36. Most importantly, we want to create a company where every employee can bring their whole selves to work.
Indra Nooyi
#37. Motivated employees are crucial to a company's success.
Anne Rice
#38. Before I started a company, I was an employee with a bad attitude. I was always felt like, bosses are stupid, and people weren't well treated.
Mitch Kapor
#39. We felt that the employees would take a greater interest in work if they felt they were part of the company.
William Redington Hewlett
#40. Before 20 or 25 employees, most companies are structured with everyone reporting to the founder. It's totally flat.
Sam Altman
#41. every employee and manager must understand who you are as a company, and what you stand for. They must be true to your brand values and be able to passionately explain them to your prospects and customers.
Richard Parkes Cordock
#42. The talented employee may join a company because of its charismatic leaders, its generous benefits, and its world-class training programs, but how long that employee stays and how productive he is while he is there is determined by his relationship with his immediate supervisor.
Marcus Buckingham
#43. Every employee in a company depends on the C.E.O. to make fast, high-quality decisions.
Ben Horowitz
#44. It became the first company in the history of the world to offer cryogenics as part of its employee benefits package.
George Packer
#45. A company's employees are its greatest asset and your people are your product
Richard Branson
#46. Loyal employees in any company create loyal customers, who in turn create happy shareholders.
Richard Branson
#47. Good manners are cost effective. They not only increase the quality of life in the workplace, they contribute to employee morale, embellish the company image, and play a major role in generating profit.
Letitia Baldrige
#48. Companies have a responsibility to train and retrain their employees.
Gregory Balestrero
#49. Starbucks considers a product's success not only in terms of consumer acceptance but also in terms of employee
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