Quotes About Employees

#1. I view my role more as trying to set up an environment where the personalities, creativity and individuality of all the different employees come out and can shine.

Tony Hsieh

#2. 130 of Automattic's 150 employees work outside of our San Francisco headquarters. Why are so many companies stuck in this factory model of working?

Matt Mullenweg

#3. Just put a little pin in your mind: when you cross 50 employees, there are a new set of HR rules that you have to comply with.

Sam Altman

#4. Companies are accustomed to dismissing employees for misuse of computers at work.

Bill Dedman

#5. Employees in a hierarchy do not really object to incompetence (Peter's Paradox): they merely gossip about incompetence to mask their envy of employees who have Pull.

Laurence J. Peter

#6. If you were the boss of a company and some of the employees of your company were known to sexually abuse children, you would fire them instantly.

Sinead O'Connor

#7. The easy way out is to approve an early retirement plan one year but not pay out sick and vacation time to deserving employees until three years later. Unfortunately, later is now.

Jodi Rell

#8. A recent management study revealed that 46% of employees leaving a company do so because they feel underappreciated; 61% said their bosses don't place much importance on them as people, and 88% said they do not receive acknowledgement for the work they do.

Jack Canfield

#9. 30% of all people will never believe you. Do not allow your colleagues and employees to work for you. Instead, let them work for a common goal.

Jack Ma

#10. When employees feel valued, and are more productive and engaged, they create a culture that can truly be a strategic advantage in today's competitive market.

Michael Hyatt

#11. When you go back to your environment and you deal with employees ... do you inspire people or do you make them feel fear? Do you make them feel confident or incompetent? I think that distinction really marks the leader.

Liz Murray

#12. gymnasts retire at 20, cricketers at 34, actresses at 32, actors at 75, salesmen at 50, other employees at 58 or 60 years, and doctors and lawyers when their bodies do not listen to their minds. Of course, one class beats them all - politicians retire at 90!

P.V. Subramanyam

#13. Treat employees like partners, and they act like partners.

Fred Allen

#14. We will never-and I mean never-turn our backs on our employees.

Howard Schultz

#15. Public employees contribute real value for the benefit of all citizens. Public-union bosses collect real money from all taxpayers for the benefit of a few.

Mark McKinnon

#16. I don't think you have to make this choice about being on one side or the other side. My feeling is that when we are committed to growing the economy and making sure that our public employees have a place at the table through collective bargaining, everyone wins.

Mary Burke

#17. Schools were designed to produce good employees instead of employers

Robert T. Kiyosaki

#18. Opening new stores outside of Japan is important, but training our employees is even more important.

Tadashi Yanai

#19. I don't like bonuses for public services employees who do great jobs, like prosecutors or judges.

Trey Gowdy

#20. The United Auto Workers is AARP in an Edsel: It has three times as many retirees and widows as 'workers' (I use the term loosely). GM has 96,000 employees but provides health benefits to a million people.

Mark Steyn

#21. I don't think value to the customer is achieved at the expense of employees' welfare.

Brad Stone

#22. For early employees you want people that have somewhat of a risk-taking attitude.

Sam Altman

#23. California has set up regional collection offices around the world, staffed by California employees, specifically for out of state California businesses to collect the money and bring it back to California.

Craig Benson

#24. Don't confuse "strict confidentiality" with "keeping employees in the dark." Private is useful. Secretive is deceptive.

Stacy Feiner

#25. I come from a family with a long tradition in shoemaking, and I still live in a region famous for its shoemakers. It is getting harder and harder to find skilled workers. There are no professional training institutes, so we have to train our own employees. And an apprenticeship takes three years.

Diego Della Valle

#26. Those activities which are not concerned with numbers, but which are concerned with humans(Customers and Employees) is known as business. Numbers will ultimately increase if humans are happy who are involved in.

Rakesh Wadhwani

#27. It's created a very real chilling effect among our sources. They've become nervous about talking with us. They don't want their phone numbers associated with us. And government employees who previously routinely talked to us, now won't.

Gary Pruitt

#28. even if we laid off 100 percent of the employees, the infrastructure costs would still kill us without a sharper sales ramp.

Ben Horowitz

#29. Nothing creates more self-respect among employees than being included in the process of making decisions.

Judith M Bardwick

#30. We found that when people put this issue on the table, it turns out that men acknowledge the issue, and employers and employees can work out solutions just as working mothers do.

James Levine

#31. The reason there are more employees than entrepreneurs is simply because our schools train young people to become employees.

Robert T. Kiyosaki

#32. The resentment that criticism engenders can demoralize employees, family members and friends, and still not correct the situation that has been condemned.

Dale Carnegie

#33. You can't let your employees work from home out of fear they'll slack off without your supervision, you're a babysitter, not a manager. Remote work is very likely the least of your problems.

Jason Fried

#34. If you run a business, put on top your employees, then your consumers, and then your shareholders.

Richard Branson

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

Jane Byrne

#36. If employees feel you don't trust them to do their jobs correctly and well, they'll be reluctant to do much without your approval. On the other hand, when they feel trusted, that you believe they'll do the right things well, they'll naturally want to do things well and be deserving of your trust.

Mac Anderson

#37. Unions do have a proper role in negotiating for employees and advising employees, but they have to engage with the employer.

Jim Ratcliffe

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

Li Ka-shing

#39. Private unions, such as the UAW, is a choice between employees and employers. If that is what they want, then who am I to say you can't have it?

Joe Wurzelbacher

#40. The Democratic Party is made up of trial lawyers, labor unions, government employees, big city political machines, the coercive utopians, the radical environmentalists, feminists, and others who want to restructure society with tax dollars and government fiat.

Grover Norquist

#41. Policymakers can draw much from 'The Need for Roots': such clear prescriptions as that employers ought to provide an adequate vocational training for their employees, education should be compulsory and publicly funded, and include technical as well as elementary education.

Pankaj Mishra

#42. 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

#43. Train service is particularly vital for the students and employees of Southern Illinois University.

Jerry Costello

#44. If you treat your employees like mushrooms (keep them in the dark and regularly throw crap on them), it's entirely likely you will get precisely the work you deserve in return.

Seth Godin

#45. She always set three alarms for fear that the first employees to arrive would discover her sleeping - a Goldilocks without her bears

Billie Letts

#46. The typical mentality among the leadership of "less work for more money" is far too prevalent. Outstanding efforts by individual employees are frowned upon, because they give "management" a reason to expect better results without an increase in compensation.

Glenn Beck

#47. When hiring key employees, there are only two qualities to look for: judgement and taste. Almost everything else can be bought by the yard.

John W. Gardner

#48. At the point when adding people into the company feels like more work than the work that you can offload to the new employees, the defensive lineman has run around you and you probably need to start giving ground grudgingly.

Ben Horowitz

#49. Many midwives work as employees in large hospital practices, where the techno-medical model of care is still the rule. In practices like these, midwives are used to attract women who desire midwifery care, but they may in fact be under constant pressure to practice within the techno-medical mode.

Ina May Gaskin

#50. Some employees are protected by union or personal contracts that limit reasons for dismissal.

Bill Dedman

#51. The best motivation for anyone-including employees-is to hear or see our name as often and in as many places as possible. Our name is the most potent sound we can hear and see. If you want to motivate someone put their name up in lights and/or sing it from the rooftops!

Vicki Donlan

#52. The society of organizations is new-only seventy years ago employees were a small minority in every society.

Peter Drucker

#53. People are salaried for the work they do, not the specific hours they sit at their desks. When you ding salaried employees for showing up five minutes late even though they routinely stay late and put in time on the weekend, you send the message that policies take precedence over performance.

Travis Bradberry

#54. Our perceptions of 'managing' employees are founded on archaic outdated business fundamentals.

Shawn Casemore

#55. The focus on process rather than purpose creates an insidious opportunity for sly employees to manipulate the system.

Laszlo Bock

#56. It struck me that most businesses have less than 100 employees, but most payroll services were going after bigger companies.

Tom Golisano

#57. Ask yourself: would you be comfortable printing everything your employees, customers & partners have to say about your culture?

Tony Hsieh

#58. I have a mother who never took no for an answer when it came to her creative pursuits. She started a hair salon in her spare bedroom and four years later had 30 employees.

Solange Knowles

#59. The eight-acre underground was so sprawling that for months after the park first opened, guides had to be stationed in the tunnels to redirect lost employees. Soon after, the tunnel walls were color-coded by land and maps were posted at each intersection to help newcomers find their way.

David Koenig

#60. Why do lazy, minimum effort employees always seem to find places where they feel "underappreciated"?

Matt Chandler

#61. Employees who are not engaged have untapped potential that sours like a perishable item.

Kevin E. Phillips

#62. If you treat your employees with respect, they return it right back.

M. Clarke

#63. My parents grew that small business from one 18-year-old guarding a bingo to more than 125 employees in three states. And sure, there was help along the way. But my parents took the risk. They stood up. And you better believe they built it.

Susana Martinez

#64. Companies understand that if their employees are sick, it's really expensive. So despite the rhetoric I hear, thank God employers are still in the health-care system.

Michael Porter

#65. In order to protect against being disrupted, startups also need to recruit employees that are committed to life-long learning. The skills that made your team members valuable may not be the skills needed to take your company to the next level or to compete in emerging markets.

Jay Samit

#66. I interview every employeeand I have 3000 employees. It's an obsessive sickness.

Stephen Starr

#67. If you want control, loosen your grip. You're strangling your employees. Letting go is actually holding on.

Richie Norton

#68. Capital goes to where it can escape taxation and be used to pay employees in sacks of rice.

Walter Wriston

#69. All, from police forces to armed forces, are rigid hierarchies of salaried employees, and all are necessarily cumbered with incompetents who cannot do their existing work, cannot be promoted, yet cannot be removed.

Laurence J. Peter

#70. Work/life benefits allow companies meaningful ways for responding to their employees' needs; they can be a powerful tool for transforming a workforce and driving a business' success.

Anne M. Mulcahy

#71. 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

#72. How much of your time, at your "hourly rate," is wasted each year because you're cleaning up after your employees and fixing issues they've created or haven't resolved themselves?

Liz Weber

#73. Incredibly, whenever I have proposed the theory that half of government workers could be cut, current and former federal employees I know have all agreed.

Ronald Kessler

#74. became one of the first fifty employees at Atari, working as a technician for $5 an hour. "In retrospect, it was

Walter Isaacson

#75. This is not a book for the wild-haired crazies your company keeps in a corner. It is a book for you, your boss, and your employees, because the best future available to us is a future where you contriubute your true self and your best work. Are you up for that?

Seth Godin

#76. Large companies cannot finance political parties as their shareholders and employees have different political views.

Mikhail Khodorkovsky

#77. Before the New York Times starts running "Portraits in Grief" of former Enron employees, it's worth remembering that even after the collapse, Enron stock is still worth more than the entire Social Security "trust fund."

Ann Coulter

#78. Most employees want to be involved in a successful business and most employees are happy for people running successful businesses to be paid a reasonable wage and a market rate for it, provided they understand the reason. What they hate most of all is pay for failure.

Stuart Rose

#79. Companies that I've been very involved with, that have had a very bad first hire in the first 3 or so employees never recover from it ...

Sam Altman

#80. Cops, more than firefighters, EMTs or other public safety employees, almost always get the first glance of the human condition at the worst, most lethal moments; nobody calls a cop with good news.

Mike Barnicle

#81. Top-down authority structures turn employees into bootlickers, breed pointless struggles for political advantage, and discourage dissent.

Gary Hamel

#82. She sighed and lifted her hand to run it along the edge of his lip. "You want to stay here, in the employees' quarters? Wouldn't you be a little out of place?"
"If you're here,it will be the Taj Mahal.

Sandra Chastain

#83. Things that have happened with Enron and companies like that, where they've squandered their employees' pension funds, I think it has brought a new level of anxiety. People don't feel like they can trust their employer.

Mike Huckabee

#84. When I asked for her best motivational tip, she shared a single sentence she uses with her employees. Whenever she assigns a project, she says, "Make it as awesome as you want.

Lindsey Pollak

#85. Express Your Appreciation To Your Employees. Do Not Think They Already Know, Cause They Don't

Marieke Stoop

#86. Hospitals have missed the point that the best way to improve the patient experience is to build better engagement with their employees, who will then provide better service and health care to patients.

Paul Spiegelman

#87. Once employees feel challenged, invigorated and productive, their efforts will naturally translate into profit and growth for the organisation.

Ricardo Semler

#88. When President Obama speaks about raising taxes on the rich, he speaks about high-income employees and small business owners, not entrepreneurs who build big businesses.

Robert Kiyosaki

#89. If there is such a thing as good leadership, it is to give a good example. I have to do so for all the Ikea employees.

Ingvar Kamprad

#90. I would just say that if Governor Romney would like to give back all the money he's earned from bankrupting companies and laying off employees over his years at Bain that I would be glad to then listen to him. I'll bet you $10, not $10,000, that he won't take the offer.

Newt Gingrich

#91. Employers and employees alike have learned that in union there is strength.

Franklin D. Roosevelt

#92. 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

#93. Some employees make products, some make sales; the CEO makes decisions. Therefore, a CEO can most accurately be measured by the speed and quality of those decisions.

Ben Horowitz

#94. People are trainable. They can be trained to be either employees or entrepreneurs.

Robert T. Kiyosaki

#95. It wasn't that she expected to be known by all the bank's employees; it was just that she had been lovely once, and had never really believed that time would make her faceless.

Denis Johnson

#96. Quoting Demosthenes, 'For what each man wishes, that he also believes to be true.' I would rather make money playing a piano in a whorehouse than arguing that no cost is incurred when employees are paid in stock options instead of cash. I am not kidding.

Charlie Munger

#97. 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

#98. Never forget, organizational values start and end with you, the leader. Whether your example is good or bad, expect most employees to follow your lead.

Mac Anderson

#99. Employers should not be able to impose their religious beliefs on female employees, ignoring their individual health decisions and denying their right to reproductive care. Bosses belong in the boardroom, not in the bedroom.

Dina Titus

#100. 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