Quotes About Employees

#1. Many Enron employees lost 70 percent to 90 percent of their retirement assets after the company indicated that it would re-state profit reports,

Elaine Chao

#2. The Justice Department needs to investigate how Goldman Sachs was able to steer things in such a manner through their former employees in the Bush administration, so that in the end Goldman's competitors have disappeared and Goldman is left standing.

Michael Moore

#3. The world is full of CEOs that think that just because they write a memo or they write a letter inside an annual report or they give a little video speech that gets sent around the company, they think that's what's really going to affect employees.

Louis V. Gerstner Jr.

#4. You'll attract the employees you need if you can explain why your mission is compelling: not why it's important in general, but why you're doing something important that no one else is going to get done.

Peter Thiel

#5. but Phil looked up and gave them a weak smile. "Well," he said, "this isn't too bad. My left leg is broken, but at least I'm right-legged. That's pretty fortunate." "Gee," one of the other employees murmured. "I thought he'd say something more along the lines of 'Aaaaah! My leg! My leg!

Lemony Snicket

#6. Sustainability is no longer optional. Companies that fail to adopt such practices will perish. They will not only lose cost basis: they will also suffer in recruiting employees as well as attracting customers.

John Replogle

#7. Employers are at their happiest on Mondays. Employees are at their happiest on Fridays.

Mokokoma Mokhonoana

#8. The economic tsunami has hit all airline employees. With the 2001 terror attacks, airline bankruptcies, pension terminations, loss of pay, changes in work rules - we're all working harder and longer than we used to.

Chesley Sullenberger

#9. He also suggests "No-Talk Thursdays," one day a week in which employees aren't allowed to speak to each other.

Susan Cain

#10. When employees unite, they form a union but when business owners unite, they form a team.

Robert Kiyosaki

#11. Start with good people, lay out the rules, communicate with your employees, motivate them and reward them. If you do all those things effectively, you can't miss.

Lee Iacocca

#12. What is the cost of replacing and bringing up to speed one of your managers, supervisors, or front-line employees who left because they were frustrated with your organization's leadership?

Liz Weber

#13. What do you really believe makes a difference in the company? For me it's really clear. It's about customers and employees. Everything else follows. If you take care of your customers and you have motivated employees, everything else follows.

Anne M. Mulcahy

#14. Employees are the key to your success with customers. Treat them well!

Ron Kaufman

#15. The majority of Americans receive health insurance coverage through their employers, but with rising health care costs, many small businesses can no longer afford to provide coverage for their employees.

Jim Ryun

#16. Founders are usually very stingy with equity to employees and very generous with equity to investors. I think this is totally backwards.

Sam Altman

#17. We want to take care of our employees, because they take care of our family.

Harold Taylor

#18. The mistake ... was attributed in part to the fact that employees called the 3-year note 'Losh' and the 5-year note 'Bosh'. The comic mixing of 'Loshes' and 'Boshes' sounded more like a Dr. Seuss children's book than a cutting-edge risk-management operation.

Frank Partnoy

#19. I have 250 contacts, employees, and investors who, anytime they come across something relevant, will share it with me. I wake up to 10-15 links that people have explicitly recommended for me. I don't have to look for news anymore; it flows to me.

Garrett Camp

#20. Unions are at a disadvantage in a company vote because the employees can see that the greatest advocates of unionization are often the malcontents and marginal workers.

James Cook

#21. The hardest thing was launching 'OK!' magazine; the easiest thing was Channel 5. 'The Express' was my defining moment because our turnover was less than £100m with 150 employees.

Richard Desmond

#22. Every day at Skype, I am able to connect with employees from around the world and engage with them on a level that just is not possible through a conference call or email.

Tony Bates

#23. I have certain beliefs about how people should treat employees and how companies should be run, but I was really surprised though this process to learn that those beliefs are actually good business.

Adam McKay

#24. The goal, then, is to uncouple fear and failure - to create an environment in which making mistakes doesn't strike terror into your employees' hearts.

Ed Catmull

#25. 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

#26. Don't wait for your employees to seek you out. Choose to be assertive and go to them first.

Barry Banther

#27. Your employees know each other better than they know you.

Ben Horowitz

#28. 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

#29. Do not instigate or treat any of your employees, working at your place, with contempt. Treat everyone with respect. You never know what benefit a person will bring.

Dada Bhagwan

#30. Quality, productivity, and innovation can be significantly increased if companies provide all employees with practical tools for exploiting potential information

William Hunter

#31. If I gun down my boss in the carpark after work then he won't be able to terrorise all his other employees and the greater good will have been served.

Rushworth M Kidder

#32. The best employees are those who bring real energy and initiative to the job. I like to know whether you're the kind of person who can set priorities, take initiative, and drive results right from the beginning.

Marillyn Hewson

#33. It takes healthy, resilient leaders and employees to achieve great results.

Sue Tetzlaff

#34. Learn to sell. In business you're always selling: to your prospects, investors and employees. To be the best salesperson put yourself in the shoes of the person to whom you're selling. Don't sell your product. Solve their problems.

Mark Cuban

#35. Work is accomplished by those employees who have not yet reached their level of incompetence.

Laurence J. Peter

#36. Companies do not commit crimes; only their agents do. And while a company might get the benefit of some such crimes, prosecuting the company would inevitably punish, directly or indirectly, the many employees and shareholders who were totally innocent.

Jed S. Rakoff

#37. I don't believe any person looking for work is fearful of political judgment. Government is a large institution, and if they believe that people are going to get rid of good employees for political reasons, that's absurd.

Jan Brewer

#38. Our citizens have the right to protection from the incompetency of public employees who hold their places solely as the reward of partisan service.

Grover Cleveland

#39. Investors are employees you can never hire. We made sure to pick investors that thought like us.

Biz Stone

#40. Talent, just like gold or any other precious commodity is subject to the same demand & supply economics

Gyan Nagpal

#41. For an older generation of employees, social media often remains misunderstood and underutilized.

Ryan Holmes

#42. The angry customers must be calmed and controlled while the lethargic employees must be energized.

Susan Benjamin

#43. I am a political animal, because for God's sakes I think "We The People" is a job. I think experienced self government demands on all levels - intellectual, moral, historical, and spiritual level. We are supposed to be engaged and give directions to our elected employees.

Ted Nugent

#44. I never wanted Ford to be a place, like the tobacco industry, where our employees were not proud of coming to work for us. I felt there was a danger of that, should we be marginalized as a major polluter.

William Clay Ford Jr.

#45. If you can't bring yourself to encourage employees to lie down on the job, at least give them plenty of breaks. The ordinary fatigue most of us feel during the workday makes us grouchier - and dumber - as the hours go by.

Robert I. Sutton

#46. There is a need to evaluate the performance of employees in a more objective and continuous way.

Pearl Zhu

#47. Given the increasing diversity among customers and employees, organizations that attend to cultural intelligence are more successful.

David Livermore

#48. If an enterprise does not aspire to be the best of its kind, it will attract second-rate employees, and it will be soon forgotten.

Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi

#49. Look at the Quakers - they were excellent business people that never lied, never stole; they cared for their employees and the community which gave them the wealth. They never took more money out than they put back in.

Anita Roddick

#50. Banks frown when employees torch the home of their principal account holder.

Kathy Bryson

#51. When employees and employers, even coworkers, have a commitment to one another, everyone benefits. I have people who have been in business with me for decades. I reward their loyalty to the organization and to me. I know that they'll always be dedicated to what we're trying to accomplish.

Donald Trump

#52. There is a saying in entrepreneurship that your early employees are all commandos. Commandos are people who can do almost everything well: emails, strategy, code, design.

Adeo Ressi

#53. We seem to be paying some of our employees an awful lot of money.

Don Ameche

#54. Always let your employees come to work with a smile.

Jack Ma

#55. I like Korean employees, and I like Korean tenants.

Donald Sterling

#56. The folks contributing their automobiles and driving labor to Uber, or their property and hosting to Airbnb, make less than minimum-wage employees and don't own a piece of the company even though they constitute the infrastructure. Only money talks.

Douglas Rushkoff

#57. 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

#58. Greed has increasingly become a virtue among Wall Street bankers and corporate CEOs in the U.S. Nowhere else in the world do CEOs insist on receiving compensation as high compared to what their employees earn.

Simon Mainwaring

#59. Wal-Mart is the biggest distributor of DVDs out there, but personally, I think their manufacturing policies have destroyed our economy, and they don't pay their employees enough. I have massive problems with them.

Adam McKay

#60. I am very confident that we will be able to convince all the stakeholders - the shareholders, the governments and the employees, that this is in their best interests.

Lakshmi Mittal

#61. Choose the right employees and then set them loose.

Carlos Slim

#62. The competition to hire the best will increase in the years ahead. Companies that give extra flexibility to their employees will have the edge in this area.

Bill Gates

#63. From the IRS standpoint, 15,000 new employees have to be added just to, you know, administer ObamaCare and look at the tax implications.

Jeff Fitzgerald

#64. In life, we do not give employees enough leeway. If you look around Semco's office, there are plenty of empty desks. The question is - where are these people? I do not have the slightest idea, but I am not interested.

Ricardo Semler

#65. Social Security should have a self-sustaining portion that was funded by contributions from both employers and employees. That's what we know and have known for 70 successful years.

James Roosevelt

#66. I have always believed that the way you treat your employees is the way they will treat your customers, and that people flourish when they are praised. Sir

Richard Branson

#67. Having companies like PotashCorp based in Saskatoon or Cameco based in Saskatoon that have worldwide presence but have the head office jobs, the head office managers and head office employees in your local economy are important from a job creation and wealth creation point of view.

N. Murray Edwards

#68. The employees who share innovative ideas may also be the folks who have some hidden talents that would help incorporate their suggestions.

Harvey MacKay

#69. Perhaps it is a secret yearning of all Hallmark employees to use the phrase 'you big fat pain in the butt' in an anniversary card.

Stephan Pastis

#70. Nordstrom believes that great service begins with showing courtesy to everyone-customers, employees, and vendors.

Robert Spector

#71. LEGO has announced that they are shutting down their U.S. factory and moving it to Canada. LEGO employees say it's their fault because they made the factory too easy to take apart and rebuild somewhere else.

Conan O'Brien

#72. God has blessed me with a wonderful family, a successful business, and outstanding employees. I do not take these blessings lightly.

David Green

#73. I think 'Dilbert' will remain popular as long as employees are frustrated and they fear the consequences of complaining too loudly. 'Dilbert' is the designated voice of discontent for the workplace. I never planned it that way. It just happened.

Scott Adams

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

Victoria Principal

#75. It is only fair to expect public employees like me and others in the public sector to pay something close to what our neighbors and our fellow citizens do in the private sector.

Scott Walker

#76. In a nursery, if you don't take care of those plants, your profits get lost real quickly. You have to weed. You have to water. You have to nurture. Also, you have to take care of your employees in such a way that they do the same.

Jack Dangermond

#77. The ultimate proof of confidence for a small-business owner is, are they hiring employees?

Brad D. Smith

#78. Engaging employees and connecting with

Joel E. McPhee

#79. Are there members of your team whom, if they told you they were leaving, you would not fight hard to keep? If there are employees you would let go, then perhaps you should.

Eric Schmidt

#80. You cannot create employees without first creating employers.

Jack Kemp

#81. Every employee can affect your company's brand, not just the front-line employees that are paid to talk to your customers.

Tony Hsieh

#82. Bigger brands like Shinola are capitalizing on what all of us small companies did. Shinola is just totally fake. It's a corporate entity that's taking advantage of what everybody else has done. They say it's all about made in U.S., but one Wal-Mart hires more employees than their whole company.

Mark McNairy

#83. In the last years of the nineteen-eighties, I worked not at startups but at what might be called finish-downs. Tech companies that were dying would hire temps - college students and new graduates - to do what little was left of the work of the employees they'd laid off.

Jill Lepore

#84. As president of the largest Jewish organization, I disposed of budgets of hundreds of millions of dollars; I directed thousands of employees, and all this, I emphasize again, not for one particular state, but within the frame work of International Jewry.

Nahum Goldmann

#85. Just the act of listening means more than you can imagine to most employees.

Bob Nelson

#86. I am also committed to providing city employees with housing assistance.

Thomas Menino

#87. Most of us don't think forwarding a racist joke or speaking in an insulting 'comedic' accent is appropriate at the workplace. Unfortunately, for those raised in the toxic culture of conservatism, the sort of mentality that leads government employees to do those things is widespread.

Alex Pareene

#88. Entrepreneurial employees possess what eBay CEO John Donahoe calls the founder mind-set. As he put it to us, People with the founder mind-set drive change, motivate people, and just get stuff done.

Reid Hoffman

#89. While we very much regret the impact this will have on certain employees, we must adjust our production capacity to the reality of current business conditions and reduce costs to improve overall financial performance.

Christopher Galvin

#90. Companies, however
unintentionally, choke the motivation out of their employees.

Dan Ariely

#91. If rewards do not work, what does? I recommend that employers pay workers well and fairly and then do everything possible to help them forget about money. A preoccupation with money distracts everyone - employers and employees - from the issues that really matter.

Alfie Kohn

#92. The first thing that has to be recognized is that one cannot train someone to be passionate
it's either in their DNA or it's not.

Richard Branson

#93. My day does not truly begin until I've acquired and consumed a 32-ounce Big Gulp of diet coke from 7-Eleven. It's the Big Gulp that's important, not 7-Eleven, where I find the employees rather disagreeable.

Cate Marvin

#94. To function efficiently, any group of people or employees must have faith in their leader.- Capt. Bligh(ret.)

Robert Asprin

#95. An organization will tend to grow only when the advantages that can be gotten from directing the work of additional employees are less than the transaction costs of managing them.

Clay Shirky

#96. Brand is how others see you, culture is how you see yourself.

Curt Coffman

#97. I find that when you lead with vision and values, engaging employees and showing them that values are just as important as profits, everyone comes on board. And not only do they come on board, but they connect to their own individual creativity.

Shari Arison

#98. If you go around the kitchen and ask my employees what they want to be doing in three to five years, most of them, if they're being honest, will tell you that they don't want to be working for me. They want to have their own place. And I think that's great.

Charlie Trotter

#99. Simply giving employees a sense of agency- a feeling that they are in control, that they have genuine decision-making authority - can radically increase how much energy and focus they bring to their jobs.

Charles Duhigg

#100. If you ask the CEO of some major corporation what he does, he will say, in all honesty, that he is slaving 20 hours a day to provide his customers with the best goods or services he can and creating the best possible working conditions for his employees.

Noam Chomsky