Employee Quotes

#1. When he decided that Woz would be "Employee #1," Steve went to him and whined; it didn't take long till Scotty relented and gave Steve a new, customized tag: "Employee #0.

Brent Schlender

#2. We have our own internal version of Klout. We do rate people in this way - their effectiveness on social media. Tying social into a performance measurement works. The productivity of a sales who has an effective social media presence is 3x an employee who is not active on the web.

Sandy Carter

#3. We're living in a different world now in terms of employee needs, and companies have to offer alternative methods for getting the work done. Even under the most difficult circumstances you can have creative flexibility.

Anne M. Mulcahy

#4. When, a few months later, Goldman Sachs announced it was setting aside $542,000 per employee for the 2006 bonus pool, he wrote again: "As a former gas station attendant, parking lot attendant, medical resident and current Goldman Sachs screwee, I am offended." In

Michael Lewis

#5. Depending on the skill and will of the individual, the right leadership style may be coaching, motivating, or directing rather than delegating. A leader has to pick the right style of leadership for each employee, and it is not one-size-fits-all,

Thomas Lee

#6. You cannot love an employee into creativity, although you can ... avoid his dissatisfactions with the way you treat him.

Frederick Herzberg

#7. 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

#8. Between 1950 and 1951, I worked as a temporary employee in the Cologne Bureau of Statistics. From summer 1951 on, I have lived as a freelance writer with a fixed postal address in Cologne but with a continually shifting place of work.

Heinrich Boll

#9. If you want to have more freedom, more latitude in your job, be a more responsible, a more helpful, a more contributing employee.

Stephen R. Covey

#10. I didn't really start publishing books until I was 40 because I was busy being a McDonald's employee. So there's always a sense of trying to make up for lost time.

Jerry Stahl

#11. Similarly, a boss who interrupts an employee a lot is called an extrovert, whereas an employee who interrupts a boss too often is called an ex-employee. Even

John Ortberg

#12. I could try to incorporate or reflect in my models what it is that an employee, manager, or entrepreneur does: to recognize that most are engaged in their work, form expectations and evolve beliefs, solve problems, and have ideas. Trying to put these people into economic models became my project.

Edmund Phelps

#13. 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

#14. Ascanio ... "
"Yes, Consort?"
"I think you misunderstand the whole nature of what it means to be an employee. We have a job to do; we are doing it. Or I'm doing it, and you're making it more difficult."
"I'm not an employee. I'm an intern."
"Try to be a silent intern.

Ilona Andrews

#15. The time has come to tell the truth about the corruption of the government employee unions in this country.

Newt Gingrich

#16. It might be said that it is the ideal of the employer to have production without employees and the ideal of the employee is to have income without work.

E.F. Schumacher

#17. 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

#18. The ability to sell - to communicate to another human being, be it a customer, employee, boss, spouse, or child - is the base skill of personal success.

Robert T. Kiyosaki

#19. The employee is regarded by the employer merely in the light of his value as an operative. His productive capacity alone is taken into account.

Leland Stanford

#20. My days of being the tardy employee at the record store gave me a cultural and musical understanding that was more unique than if I'd just listened to garbage-y pop on the radio my entire life.

Sophia Amoruso

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

Homer

#22. Retirement is the menopause of an employee's mind and hands.

Mokokoma Mokhonoana

#23. We believe Ineos is a refreshing place to work. We believe strongly in employee share ownership.

Jim Ratcliffe

#24. Job tip: If you were the employer, what kind of person would you most desire as an employee? Be that person.

Ziad K. Abdelnour

#25. I call them associates; I don't like the word 'employee.'

Mickey Drexler

#26. When a manager openly expresses his faith in an employee's skill, he doesn't just improve mood and motivation; he actually improves their likelihood of succeeding.

Shawn Achor

#27. When you buy bargains and they become better bargains, it is easy to start to question yourself, which can impair your judgement. Real or imagined concerns about client redemptions, employee defections can greatly influence behavior away from rational.

Seth Klarman

#28. As a government employee, you can't testify against the government.

James Hansen

#29. Yes, Jobs could be overbearing. But as Guy Kawasaki (who worked for Steve Jobs twice) put it: If you ask an employee of Apple why they put up with the challenges of working there, they will tell you: because Apple enables you to do the best work of your career.

Anonymous

#30. 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

#31. You know I don't care if it's you know an intern or a full-time employee. I want to help them arrive at who they are or who they want to be in the world and that is one of the questions I ask them when I meet them. You know, who do they want to be.

Carol Friedman

#32. I'm back in fashion again for a while now. But I imagine that three or four years from now I'll be out again. And in another fifteen years I'll be back. If you try to write to stay in fashion, if you try to write to be the critics' darling, you become an employee.

Edward Albee

#33. Any company trying to compete ... must figure out a way to engage the mind of every employee.

Jack Welch

#34. The agenda should be crafted by the employee who reports to the manager not the manager.

Keith Rabois

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

Li Ka-shing

#36. If a female employee is offended, a boss would like her to tell him, not sue him.

Warren Farrell

#37. 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

#38. In the movies, the writer is just the servant, the employee.

Salman Rushdie

#39. The five steps in teaching an employee new skills are preparation, explanation, showing, observation and supervision.

Bruce Barton

#40. 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

#41. In some environments, safety and truth are natural born enemies. I would think a former employee of the federal government could grasp that concept.

Blake Crouch

#42. The real damper on employee engagement is the soggy, cold blanket of centralized authority. In most companies, power cascades downwards from the CEO. Not only are employees disenfranchised from most policy decisions, they lack even the power to rebel against egocentric and tyrannical supervisors.

Gary Hamel

#43. It's not up to the employer to decide or to figure out what religious problems you may have as an employee. In other words, if I'm inquiring about your religious peculiarities or whatever they may be, I'm invading your privacy about that.

Wayne Rogers

#44. Employee engagement is an investment we make for the privilege of staying in business.

Ian Hutchinson

#45. We try to evaluate how much value an employee is creating here and reward them accordingly.

Charles Koch

#46. The Boogeyman,' he said, just to be sure. 'The Boogeyman killed an employee of the President of the United States.'
The president nodded.
Some days, Zach thought, I really hate this job.

Christopher Farnsworth

#47. This bill would allow an employee to bring a claim against an employer decades after the alleged initial act of discrimination occurred. Trial lawyers, you can be sure, are salivating at this very prospect.

Buck McKeon

#48. Yahoo has gone too far in wrongfully accusing us of a conspiracy that doesn't exist. If they are having problems retaining engineers, they should be looking at the internal sources of employee dissatisfaction rather than trying to cover that up with this legal action.

Jonathan Sacks

#49. Under the AHP approach, the average small business might be able to offer their employees one or two insurance plans, and that employee of the small business would have no idea whether their doctor was going to be a apart of one of those plans.

Jim Cooper

#50. Vlad hated doing the paperwork as much as he did when a human employee quit, which was why they'd both made a promise not to eat quitters just to avoid the paperwork. As Tess had pointed out, eating the staff was bad for marale and made it so much harder to find new employees.

Anne Bishop

#51. Your employee should have superior technical skills than you. If he doesn't, it means you have hired the wrong person.

Jack Ma

#52. In these times of self-directed teams, empowered employees, and "boundaryless" organizations, your worth as an individual employee will also get measured by your work group's collective results.

Price Pritchett

#53. I like being an employee. I like making somebody happy - and if they're not, then I'm crushed.

Joaquin Phoenix

#54. From December 2007 through June 2009, average federal employee salaries increased by 6.6 percent, while average private-sector salaries increased by 3.9 percent.

Jason Chaffetz

#55. Bullying consists of the least competent most aggressive employee projecting their incompetence on to the least aggressive most competent employee and winning.

Tim Field

#56. Fire fast when it's not working. It's better for the company, it's also better for the employee.

Sam Altman

#57. Being an employee was considered a form of bondage, only a step above indentured servitude.

John Curl

#58. A 'sign of weakness' for a male celebrity is being found to be unfaithful, or unkind to an employee, or having crashed their car while stoned out of their tiny minds. A 'sign of weakness' for a woman, on the other hand, can be a single, unflattering picture.

Caitlin Moran

#59. A good education prepares a child to be a good employee and a good citizen-in that order, with the importance of the former never exceeding the importance of the latter.

Cullen Hightower

#60. If you don't feel drowsy after lunch and don't yawn in the office, you're not a perfect employee!

Himmilicious

#61. I think I've done a good job in the industry from the standpoint of employee morale and customer satisfaction, and as an innovative thinker in tech.

David Duffield

#62. Open offices keep everyone in tune with what is going on and keep the energy up. If an employee is about privacy, show him or her how to use the lock on the bathroom.

Mark Cuban

#63. Public employee unions, in their defense, say politicians have unfairly made them into simplistic bogeymen, responsible for problems that have myriad causes. Not all government workers receive generous pensions, they note.

Charles Duhigg

#64. 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

#65. Employee of the month is a good example of how somebody can be both a winner and a loser at the same time.

Demetri Martin

#66. A productive employee who is kept busy working at his or her job is far more likely to be happy at that job and less likely to look for employment elsewhere.

Zig Ziglar

#67. One time an employee brought cakes to the office to celebrate her daughter's passing the exam, whereas another coincidentally fell "sick" when her child repeatedly failed the entrance exams.

Felix Abt

#68. The problem is: income inequality is getting greater. There is no denying that. But this is not a distinction between Owner / Employee. This is a distinction between those with the Rich Employee mindset versus those with the Poor Employee mindset.

James Altucher

#69. Two resources, largely untapped in American organizations, are potential information and employee creativity

William Hunter

#70. Little in American culture, politics, or business encourages the institutionalization of a collective employee voice.

Nelson Lichtenstein

#71. had the misfortune of meeting up a parish employee

Faith Hunter

#72. That's what counted. It was more than a security system: it was a state of mind. Although Herkmoor had suffered many escape attempts, some extraordinarily clever, none had succeeded - and every guard at Herkmoor, every employee, was acutely aware of that fact

Douglas Preston

#73. Whether a chief executive officer (CEO) is applying the practices to build an organizational vision or an employee is helping a colleague resolve a problem, anyone at any organizational level can leverage leadership practices.

Gary DePaul

#74. Websites promote you 24/7: No employee will do that.

Paul Cookson

#75. And I particularly like the whole thing of being boss. Boss and employee ... It's the slave quality that I find very alluring.

Hugh Grant

#76. Employee Engagement: The state at which there is reciprocal trust between the employee and leadership to do what's right however, whenever and with whomever.

Dan Pontefract

#77. To get the best coaching outcomes, always have your 1-on-1's on your employee's turf not yours. In your office the truth hides.

Marcus Buckingham

#78. Most importantly, we want to create a company where every employee can bring their whole selves to work.

Indra Nooyi

#79. I'm Europe's most underpaid and underappreciated boss. I'm paid about 20 times more than the average Ryanair employee and I think the gap should be wider.

Michael O'Leary

#80. Public employee unions are hardly the only group involved in bare-knuckles politics. Businesses lobby fiercely, and executives make hefty campaign donations.

Charles Duhigg

#81. Jesse has a new dog. You may have noticed that his former pets have been peculiarly unfortunate. When this dog dies every employee in the White House will be at once discharged.

Ulysses S. Grant

#82. Founded by an ex-Apple employee, Nest devices do for thermostats and smoke alarms what the Mac did for PCs - Google Buys Nest made them relevant and far more valuable.

John Battelle

#83. But the best managers have the solution: Ask. Ask your employee about her goals: What are you shooting for in your current role? Where do you see your career heading? What personal goals would you feel comfortable sharing with me? How often do you want to meet to talk about your progress?

Marcus Buckingham

#84. I can't help but believe that in the future we will see in the United States and throughout the Western world an increasing trend toward the next logical step, employee ownership. It is a path that befits a free people.

Ronald Reagan

#85. How important is failure - yes, failure - to the health of a thriving, innovative business? So important that Ratan Tata, chairman of India's largest corporation, gives an annual award to the employee who comes up with the best idea that failed.

Naveen Jain

#86. 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

#87. I can't imagine a more loyal employee to have than somebody who's laid their life on the line for their country.

James A. Winnefeld Jr.

#88. I would prefer a public option that would be a competitive option that would allow people to buy into a Federal Employee Health Benefits Program, which is a series of private plans.

Amy Klobuchar

#89. 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

#90. Amazon tried to combat employee delinquency by using a point system to track how workers performed their jobs. Arriving late cost an employee half a point; failing to show up altogether was three points. Even calling in sick cost a point. An employee who collected six such demerits was let go.

Brad Stone

#91. What about the truth?" Ethan asked. "In some environments, safety and truth are natural born enemies. I would think a former employee of the federal government could grasp that concept." Ethan

Blake Crouch

#92. The unwritten motto of United States Robot and Mechanical Men Corp. was well-known: No employee makes the same mistake twice. He is fired the first time.

Isaac Asimov

#93. A self employee will always walk an extra mile, work an extra time

Ronnie Cornelisz

#94. If the employees come first, then they're happy. A motivated employee treats the customer well. The customer is happy so they keep coming back, which pleases the shareholders. It's not one of the enduring green mysteries of all time, it is just the way it works.

Herb Kelleher

#95. Fogg's most salient quality as an employee was his ability to be present while she fetched a sandwich. Beyond this, he contributed little that could be quantified.

Tom Rachman

#96. 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

#97. I had just done a movie prior to 'Employee of the Month' called 'Let's Go to Prison' and Will Arnett got to play the bad guy. I would watch him daily and couldn't wait to get the chance 'til I played a bad guy.

Dax Shepard

#98. Many corporate leaders and employees have the right intentions, but it can be overwhelming when you consider how everything is affected from leadership styles, to organizational structure, to employee engagement, to customer service an marketplace.

Simon Mainwaring

#99. The nutshell version is that you need to think about the employee mindsets, behaviors, knowledge, and expertise that are potentially linked to the performance outcomes of interest.

Pearl Zhu

#100. He started at a sporting goods store, where he bought several models of steel tent stakes, icepicks ("sailors buy them," an employee told him), hammers, and rubber mallets. No one even raised a brow at his purchase of Homicidal Maniac Variety Pack - As Seen On TV.

Nina Post