Top 100 Employee Quotes
#1. I take it he was in the closet?"
"He might as well have been in Narnia.
Anna Zabo
#2. Employers are at their happiest on Mondays. Employees are at their happiest on Fridays.
Mokokoma Mokhonoana
#3. Employer and employee are both ' contributors ' to socio economic development of any nation
Henrietta Newton Martin
#4. Showing leadership doesn't mean every employee will run the organization; that would lead to chaos. Businesses do need someone to set the vision and then lead the team to it.
Robin S. Sharma
#5. Karl Marx, a visionary, figured out that you can control a slave much better by convincing him he is an employee.
Nassim Nicholas Taleb
#6. The world of employer and employee, like that of master and slave, debases both.
Edward Abbey
#7. Sieh was a horrible father and a wretched friend and a barely competent employee, completely unworthy of being missed or mourned.
N.K. Jemisin
#8. Founders are usually very stingy with equity to employees and very generous with equity to investors. I think this is totally backwards.
Sam Altman
#9. Assigning work projects based on an employee's strengths may be critical to your group's productivity. You may discover you had a Michael Jordan on your team but couldn't see it because you were only asking him to play baseball.
John Medina
#10. 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
#11. Your employees know each other better than they know you.
Ben Horowitz
#12. I don't really care about being sweet to people who don't look out for their employees interests. You know things like that get you loyal workers, but in your case you wouldn't know a good employee from your ass any day of the week.
Sai Marie Johnson
#13. I have always thought of myself as an inventor first and foremost. An engineer. An entrepreneur. In that order. I never thought of myself as an employee. But my first jobs as an adult were as an employee: at IBM, and then at my first start-up.
Aaron Patzer
#14. Those back-to-back experiences confirmed what I already knew: That I was a shitty-ass employee and I'd better start my own business.
Mark Cuban
#15. People don't change that much. Instead of trying to put in what God left out, try drawing out what God left in!
Curt Coffman
#16. Just because an employee does things differently doesn't mean he or she won't do the job right or as well. If you establish expectations of the goal and the standards to follow, then methodology shouldn't be an issue.
Harvey MacKay
#17. If working-hours were natural, then employed men would only get erections between 5 p.m. and 9 a.m. ... during the week.
Mokokoma Mokhonoana
#18. I'm a free soul who hates paying attention to things I am not interested in. Consequently, I have rarely been comfortable in the role of 'employee.'
Steven Solomon
#19. Hell will freeze over before this CEO implements another employee benefit in this culture.
Neal Patterson
#20. The difference between a retiring man and a used condom is that the condom isn't given a golden watch to inspire the illusion that it still matters to whomever that has just used it.
Mokokoma Mokhonoana
#21. ATKINSON. Early Apple employee, developed graphics for the Macintosh. CHRISANN BRENNAN. Jobs's girlfriend at Homestead High, mother
Walter Isaacson
#22. Every company that has an economist working for him has one employee too many.
Warren Buffett
#23. Investors are employees you can never hire. We made sure to pick investors that thought like us.
Biz Stone
#24. Steve Austin will never be employee of the month!
Jim Ross
#25. Any executive, any CEO should not have 1 management style. Your management style needs to be dictated by your employee.
Keith Rabois
#26. This is the only country in the world where today's employee, is tomorrow's employer.
Marco Rubio
#27. We seem to be paying some of our employees an awful lot of money.
Don Ameche
#28. Always let your employees come to work with a smile.
Jack Ma
#29. I was never a very dependable employee for anything. Perfect for the actor's life!
John C. Reilly
#30. Meanwhile, what about the workers in those state monopolies that are being put up for sale? I am reminded of a technique for employee ownership that has worked well for many U.S. companies. It goes by various names, but the best known is "Employee Stock Ownership Program," or ESOP.
Ronald Reagan
#31. In 1951, Aerojet provided an employee cafeteria that featured roast prime rib of beef (seventy-five cents) on Thursdays, New York steaks (eighty-five cents) on Wednesdays and lobster (seventy-five cents) on Friday.
Maryellen Burns
#32. Choose the right employees and then set them loose.
Carlos Slim
#33. The underpinnings of the alliance: the company helps the employee transform his career; the employee helps the company transform.
Reid Hoffman
#34. Bundesbahnangestelltenwitwe (a widow of a federal railway employee),
Bill Bryson
#35. 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
#36. It is a prerequisite, then, for someone to trust the culture in which they work to share the values and beliefs of that culture. Without it, that employee, for example, is simply a bad fit and likely to work only for self-gain without consideration for the greater good.
Simon Sinek
#37. The employment equation used to be built on a foundation of two-way loyalty. The world has changed. Today, successful employment relationships can only be sustained on a foundation of two-way honesty
Gyan Nagpal
#38. Occasionally, I make waffles for breakfast for any employee who wants to talk to me. I make them around 8 A.M. as an incentive for people to show up early.
David Ulevitch
#39. The so-called 'Employee Free Choice Act' envisions a world where workers would be denied privacy and forced to vote in an atmosphere of intimidation.
Mike Pence
#40. Thanks to his salary, an employee is free to eat whatever, wherever. However, because of his job, he is not free to eat whenever.
Mokokoma Mokhonoana
#41. Every employee can affect your company's brand, not just the front-line employees that are paid to talk to your customers.
Tony Hsieh
#42. Becca had only had to deal with technology and administration issues and had thus far been removed from danger while she was in training for the more serious assignments. As the newest, and smallest, employee at the Society, she was too young and innocent to face the grim reality, anyway.
Anne Marie Becker
#43. Somebody is born.
Somebody goes to school.
Somebody learns to conform.
Somebody types a CV.
Somebody gets a job.
Somebody follows orders.
Somebody gets a golden watch.
And then, eventually,
Somebody dies.
And, a Nobody is buried.
Mokokoma Mokhonoana
#44. Jim finished his beer and wondered how in the hell he'd found himself in the role of Cupid. Man, if those four lads even thought about getting him to wear the wings and a diaper while he nocked his arrow, he was so renegotiating his employee contract. And not with words.
J.R. Ward
#45. I'm honored and excited to be chosen to lead MLSE, a world-class sports and entertainment organization with the major league teams, premier facilities and employee team that rank with the very best across North America and internationally.
Tim Leiweke
#46. Companies, however
unintentionally, choke the motivation out of their employees.
Dan Ariely
#47. If you purchased the latest Joss Stone CD, what you're saying is that you're an employee of VH1.
Christian Finnegan
#48. Greeley knew no language but his, but of that, he possessed a most extraordinary mastery. An employee
Harold Holzer
#49. If you go to the workplace thinking that you are a mere employee, you can only be an employee. If you go with an Entrepreneur consciousness, you can definitely become an Entrepreneur
Rajasaraswathii
#50. By depriving the charged person of any defenses [the rulings] mean that sexual dalliance, however voluntarily engaged in, becomes harassment whenever an employee sees fit, after the fact, so to characterize it.
Robert Bork
#51. Brand is how others see you, culture is how you see yourself.
Curt Coffman
#52. I have never seen an employee who jumps out of bed in the morning in order to create shareholder value.
Dov Seidman
#54. Inviting someone to work for pay is a sacred privilege and a trust. It must be regarded a high honor to be able to give another person work, and neither employer nor employee should abuse this relationship
Judy Frankel
#55. Every employee must be essential to the functions of the organization.
Brian Tracy
#56. We need spend out time in feeling the moment rather then creating the moment. Let it flow as it and just feel everything. Brain is employee of mind.
Yogi
#57. Chances are you have a job. Chances are your job sucks. But you've learned a few things from this job, mainly, YOU DON'T LIKE BEING AN EMPLOYEE!
Robert T. Kiyosaki
#58. Eighty-five percent of the reasons for failure are deficiencies in the systems and process rather than the employee. The role of management is to change the process rather than badgering individuals to do better.
W. Edwards Deming
#59. With his final blow delivered, he pulls me up toward him, first by my hips, and then by my hair. Groping my breasts and kissing me, he is full of congratulations.
'Well done, Megan, you took your punishment well. Now it's time for your reward.
Felicity Brandon
#60. If you want to become successful employer tomorrow, work hard on learning and practicing few simple disciplines and positive thoughts as an employee today.
Ashish Patel
#61. The masters and overseers were so good at employee development, in their absence, the employees still achieved the company's mission
Darnell Lamont Walker
#62. Retirement is a stage where an employer discards an employee that he cannot exploit further.
Mokokoma Mokhonoana
#63. The industrial age was not about craftspeople trading peer to peer. It was about stopping that. You weren't supposed to be a craftsperson, you were supposed to be an employee.
Douglas Rushkoff
#64. Starving whilst schooled is like a man's finding out that his wife is on her periods ... a few seconds after he took Viagra.
Mokokoma Mokhonoana
#65. Give your typical employee a profitable corporation, and, he is mostly likely to sell it to buy a fancier suit for his next job interview.
Mokokoma Mokhonoana
#66. Employment is an employee's kissing of an employer's ass. A salary is the employer's pretense to be cleaning his ass.
Mokokoma Mokhonoana
#67. To make money I picked up work as a busboy, valet parker, skateboard shop employee.
David Spade
#68. 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
#69. There is no harder worker than a former government employee who has discovered the word incentive.
Nelson DeMille
#70. Until a job is outsourced or streamlined through an innovation, an employee is trained to operate robotically. This is what a brand is.
John-Talmage Mathis
#71. The Bethlehem profit-sharing system is based on my belief that every man should get exactly what he makes himself worth. This is the only plan I know of which is equally fair to the employers and every class of employee. Someday, I hope, all labor troubles will be solved by such a system.
Charles M. Schwab
#72. It didn't matter, because he was an employee of a criminal enterprise and I was an FBI consultant and, oh yeah, technically kidnapped and probably in the throes of some kind of Stockholm syndrome.
Rosemary Clement-Moore
#73. 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
#74. Take good care of your employees, and they'll take good care of your customers, and the customers will come back.
J. Willard Marriott
#75. 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
#76. 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
#77. You're training a new employee,' says Mrs. Clark, 'to take over your boring old job.' When you raise a child.
Chuck Palahniuk
#78. Organizations are perfectly designed to get the results that they get.
Stewart Liff
#79. You must fire bad customers just as you would fire a bad employee. If you do not get rid of your bad employees, the good employees will leave. If I do not fire bad customers, not only will my good customers leave but many of my good employees will leave as well.
Robert Kiyosaki
#80. The reason why employee relations have lost its sheen in aiding productivity, is to be searched for , within the doors of your corporate structure , i.e. your human resource department.
Henrietta Newton Martin
#81. Each dollar in my asset column was a great employee, working hard to make more employees and buy the boss a new Porsche.
Robert T. Kiyosaki
#82. Since when do corporations not have responsibility to the community? Since when to the not have responsibility to their employees?
Joe Biden
#83. French Impressionist artist Paul Gauguin would never have become Gauguin if he had not followed this principle. He was a bank employee for a good part of his life, until the day he decided he was an artist. That day he left the bank and became a genius painter.
Alejandro Jodorowsky
#84. Understanding your employee's perspective can go a long way towards increasing productivity and happiness.
Kathryn Minshew
#85. The only thing worse than losing an employee you have trained is keeping an employee you haven't trained.
Zig Ziglar
#86. Before you can have great employees you have to put them in a position to create their own future.
Garrison Wynn
#87. 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
#88. If an employee told you he had the flu, you'd send him home. If an employee told you he was feeling anxious, you'd probably tell him to get back to work. But the emotion is just as contagious as a flu virus.
Chip Conley
#89. 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
#90. I was a hostess in a restaurant in New York when I was 21, and I was too good of an employee. I was putting most of my energy into that instead of acting. But my father told my sister and me to look at whatever needed to be done and do that job well, no matter what it was.
Emily Deschanel
#91. We pinpointed four factors that drive quality as a cultural value: leadership emphasis, message credibility, peer involvement, and employee ownership of quality issues.
Anonymous
#92. I'd thought it strange, after the financial crisis, in which Goldman had played such an important role, that the only Goldman Sachs employee who had been charged with any sort of crime was the employee who had taken something from Goldman Sachs.
Michael Lewis
#93. 1. Your business needs more linchpins. It's scary to rely on a particular employee, but in a postindustrial economy, you have no choice. 2. You are capable of becoming a linchpin. And if you do, you'll discover that it's worth the effort.
Seth Godin
#94. The greatest competitive advantage is to allow your employees to be part of something. Something bigger than what you're doing.
Blake Mycoskie
#95. The problem with being an employee or self-employed is you pay the highest taxes.
Robert Kiyosaki
#96. We are superior to the competition because we hire employees who work in an environment of belonging and purpose. We foster a climate where the employee can deliver what the customer wants. You cannot deliver what the customer wants by controlling the employee.
Horst Schulze
#97. 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
#98. Education inspires the educated to think for themselves. Schooled programs the schooled to work for others.
Mokokoma Mokhonoana
#99. I know what she is talking about.
Namely, everything I refused to talk about, in court: what it is like to know that you are a target, because of the color of your skin. What it means to work hard, to be an impeccable employee, and have none of that make a difference in the face of prejudice.
Jodi Picoult
#100. I haven't really had too many bosses. Any bad boss I had probably was because I was a bad employee.
Jason Sudeikis
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