Top 58 Work Employee Quotes
#1. Most importantly, we want to create a company where every employee can bring their whole selves to work.
Indra Nooyi
#2. 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
#3. 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
#4. 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
#5. A job interview is a competition won by those who are qualified the most, and, those who are willing to be payed the least.
Mokokoma Mokhonoana
#6. 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
#7. No organization is going to be successful unless it places a high value on its employees and engages them in the work that it's doing.
Mary Burke
#8. Prostitutes are paid for taking their clothes off. Celebrities are paid for putting others' clothes on.
Mokokoma Mokhonoana
#10. We believe Ineos is a refreshing place to work. We believe strongly in employee share ownership.
Jim Ratcliffe
#11. 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
#12. Back then, work revolved around life. Today, life revolves around work.
Mokokoma Mokhonoana
#13. If you work in an urgent-only culture, the only solution is to make the right things urgent.
Seth Godin
#14. 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
#15. 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
#16. the industrial ideal: anyone can request work, do so anonymously, never meet the employee, and reject the results without ever paying. The
Douglas Rushkoff
#17. 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
#18. A self employee will always walk an extra mile, work an extra time
Ronnie Cornelisz
#19. We felt that the employees would take a greater interest in work if they felt they were part of the company.
William Redington Hewlett
#20. At IBM everybody sells! Every employee has been trained to think that the customer comes first - everybody from the CEO, to the people in finance, to the receptionists, to those who work in manufacturing.
Buck Rodgers
#21. If u want to work in Corporate, then u should know how to play Chess.
Honeya
#22. If you want to succeed in business in any capacity - employee, manager, or owner - you must have a solid, comprehensive understanding of what business principles actually are and how they actually work.
Josh Kaufman
#23. Unpaid internships are worse than slavery," Gabby said. I looked at her, unsure of what she meant. "They make us work ridiculous hours, for free, and they make us do things an employee would do. It's a scam, and worse, they make you feel like they're doing YOU a favor. It's such mindfuckery.
Teresa Lo
#24. I established the rule that once we hire an employee, his school records are a matter of the past and are no longer used to evaluate his work or decide on his promotion.
Akio Morita
#26. The fastest way to disengage an employee is to tell him his work is meaningful only because of the paycheck.
Shawn Achor
#27. When an employee truly understands the meaning of his work and gets recognition for his efforts he performs the best.
Abhishek Ratna
#28. The biggest job we have is to teach a newly hired employee how to fail intelligently. We have to train him to experiment over and over and to keep on trying and failing until he learns what will work.
Charles Kettering
#29. IN INDIA ONE ,EMPLOYEE CAN NOT FOR WORK ,THEY WORK FOR BOSS
MANNA
#30. 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
#31. 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
#32. 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
#33. 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
#34. Always let your employees come to work with a smile.
Jack Ma
#35. 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
#36. 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
#37. 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
#38. Brand is how others see you, culture is how you see yourself.
Curt Coffman
#39. 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
#40. 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
#41. To make money I picked up work as a busboy, valet parker, skateboard shop employee.
David Spade
#42. 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
#43. 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
#44. Education inspires the educated to think for themselves. Schooled programs the schooled to work for others.
Mokokoma Mokhonoana
#45. 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
#46. The worst type of employee you can have is one who has mentally quit and is still physically coming to work every day.
David Cottrell
#47. One thing an exceptional employee never says is, 'That's not in my job description.' Exceptional employees work outside the boundaries of job descriptions.
Travis Bradberry
#48. You know, I think the greatest gift in the world is a good employee, you know, or people who can do your work for you and do it well the way you'd like to have it done. And I've always been able to surround myself with really good people.
Kenny Rogers
#49. Writing screenplays is not my business. I've written half a dozen, and maybe half of those were made. But it was never a satisfying experience. It was just work. You're an employee. You would be told what to do. Studio execs would cross out my dialogue and put in their dialogue.
Elmore Leonard
#50. 12% of employees study further to learn more. 88% of employees study further to earn more.
Mokokoma Mokhonoana
#51. True love exists in business. It's when Employee and Employer are amazingly grateful to have each other. We should all have true love at work.
Simon Sinek
#52. If employment really cared about employees, people wouldn't have to work until retirement comes to their rescue.
Mokokoma Mokhonoana
#53. That it is logical, fair and reasonable to maintain the purchasing power of an hour's work in terms of goods and services the employee must purchase in his daily living.
Charles E. Wilson
#54. Work is a vehicle with which man chases some fleeting destination called a full tummy.
Mokokoma Mokhonoana
#55. The PC principle is to always treat your employees exactly as you want them to treat your best customers.
Stephen R. Covey
#56. Employee participation programs and employee ownership are important efforts to deal with powerlessness at work.
Daniel Yankelovich
#57. If you define yourself by the title of coach or boss, you'll never earn real trust from your players or employees.
Bill Courtney
#58. Nothing ever works out when you are at the whims of others. It doesn't matter if you are an entrepreneur or an employee. Once someone is bribing you to do something (a salary is a form of bribery if you are only doing the work for the money and not for the meaning) then you become a prisoner.
James Altucher
