Best company & employee Quotes | Short & Famous Sayings

“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.”

Ifs Children Company Known Fire Abuse Employee Boss Sexually

Author:Sinead O'Connor

“Artists, writers and people in creative fields are entrepreneurs by necessity. Nobody gives them a paycheck or picks up their medical insurance. The ones who succeed learn to think and act like 'independent operators.' I think people who are technically 'employees' have to think this way as well. The company is not looking out for you.”

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Author:Steven Pressfield

“If you work for and eventually lead a company, understand that companies have multiple stakeholders including employees, customers, business partners and the communities within which they operate.”

Ifs Community Company Including Customers Partners Employee Multiple Stakeholder Business Partners

Author:Don Tapscott

“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?”

Company Models Work Out Stuck Employee Factories San Francisco Headquarters

Author:Matt Mullenweg

“Big Internet companies on average are capable of generating revenue of $1 million per employee, and that compares to 10 to 20 percent of that which is normally generated by traditional offline businesses of comparable size.”

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Author:Yuri Milner

“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.”

Way Needs Powerful Company Benefits Tools Driving Meaningful Employee Business Success Transforming Responding Workforce

Author:Anne M. Mulcahy

“As one of the first employees at a small cellular phone start-up called Nextel, I gained firsthand experience in how a business grows from an idea to a company that, at its peak, employed many thousands.”

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Author:Jack Markell

“Companies that hire employees..that are deeply passionate create companies that customers are really really passionate about, and those are the companies that have strong brands.”

Strong Company Passionate Customers Brands Employee

Author:Brian Chesky

“There is a very strong linkage between U.S. banks and European banks. There are plenty of European employees that are employed by U.S. companies, and there are plenty of U.S. employees that are employed by European companies.”

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Author:Christine Lagarde

“Is there any fairness in a system where a group of people can borrow a bunch of money to buy a company and pay themselves millions of dollars in dividends and fees, while the company itself ends up bankrupt and its employees lose their jobs, health insurance and pensions?”

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Author:William D. Cohan

“The IRS says it wants to make sure companies can give their employees a choice between a new cash balance plan and the traditional defined benefit plan. The real question here is whether companies should be required to give their workers that choice.”

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Author:Bernie Sanders

“Creating in all employees the awareness that their best efforts are essential and that they will share in the rewards of the company's success.”

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Author:Tom Peters

“Employees are your most valuable assets. They are the heart and guts of a company. This doesn't mean that from time to time, you aren't going to do what is good for the company.”

Heart Mean Company Valuable Employee Guts Assets

Author:Carlos Ghosn

“The whole time I was a union leader, we had to put up with John Howard and Tony Abbott attacking workers' conditions. I'm proud of being a moderate trade union official, working co-operatively between employees and employers. I'm interested in better wages for workers, better safety, job security, and, profitable companies, because I understand that if you get co-operation in the workplace, everyone wins.”

“We want to keep the company healthy and its employees happy, and we want to keep them on the job and productive.”

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Author:Akio Morita

“I have always made it a point to know our employees, to visit every facility of our company, and to try to meet and know every single employee.”

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Author:Akio Morita

“As for the employees, the payment in stock options revives, somewhat ironically, the old anarchist ideology of self-management of the company, as they are co-owners, co-producers, and co-managers of the firm.”

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Book:The Internet Galaxy: Reflections on the Internet, Business, and Society

Source: The Internet Galaxy: Reflections on the Internet, Business, and Society

“Great fit and synergism for both companies and excellent outcome for employees, customers and shareholders.”

Company Fit Customers Excellent Outcomes Employee Shareholders

Author:Philippe Kahn

“Most companies target women as end users, but few are effectively utilizing female employees when it comes to innovating for female consumers. When women are empowered in the design and innovation process, the likelihood of success in the marketplace improves by 144%!”

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Author:Indra Nooyi

“For a company to excel, employees must be reassured that self-interest, not the company's, is their foremost priority. We believe an employee who puts himself first will be motivated to perform.”

Firsts Believe Self Interest Company Priorities Employee Motivated Self Interest

Book:The Seven-Day Weekend: Changing the Way Work Works

Source: The Seven-Day Weekend: Changing the Way Work Works

“We felt that the employees would take a greater interest in work if they felt they were part of the company.”

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Author:William Redington Hewlett

“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.”

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Author:Ronald Reagan

“Many of the deficiencies of our economic system could be alleviated if ways were found to broaden the ownership of the means of production... This has happened in some companies through ESOPs. Successful approaches of this sort would pay dividends in terms of employee commitment and morale. And they would not deprive anyone of his present holdings since they are based on future growth.”

“Without doubt, there are lots of ways to measure the pulse of a business. But if you have employee engagement, customer satisfaction, and cash flow right, you can be sure your company is healthy and on the way to winning.”

Ifs Way Winning Company Doubt Healthy Flow Satisfaction Customers Employee Engagement Cash Pulse Employee Engagement Customer Satisfaction Cash Flow

Author:Jack Welch

“Industry suffers from the managerial dogma that for the sake of stability and continuity, the company should be independent of the competence of individual employees.”

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Author:Edsger Dijkstra

“Companies have a responsibility to train and retrain their employees.”

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Author:Gregory Balestrero

“I gave a talk on gender stuff at Facebook one morning and a man didn't come. It was optional; he didn't have to come. But he sent a note saying, "I missed your meeting because I drove my kids to school so my wife could do something else. Thank you for making that possible." I think that employee is a loyal employee for Facebook and I think more companies should want that kind of loyalty.”

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Author:Sheryl Sandberg

“The notion that employees and companies have a social contract with each other that goes beyond a paycheck has largely vanished in United States business.”

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Author:Alex Berenson

“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.”

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Author:Gary Hamel

“The idea of investing in the positivity of employees is often low down on companies' priority lists.”

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Author:Shawn Achor

“There is always a critical job to be done. There is a sales door to be opened, a credit line to be established, a new important employee to be found, or a business technique to be learned. The venture investor must always be on call to advise, to persuade, to dissuade, to encourage, but always to help build. Then venture capital becomes true creative capital - creating growth for the company and financial success for the investing organization”

Source: The First Venture Capitalist: Georges Doriot on Leadership, Capital, & Business Organization

“I care about our employees more than anybody in my company. I care about my kids, too, but that doesn't mean I give them everything that they want.”

Want Giving Mean Care Kids Company Employee I Care

Author:Charlie Ergen

“Your employees are your company’s real competitive advantage. They’re the ones making the magic happen-so long as their needs are being met.”

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Author:Richard Branson

“Sales pays for the company. Employees who don't “get” that are part of the problem.”

Problem Pay Company Employee

Author:Donal Daly

“What I'd like to see is a private [healthcare] system without the artificial lines around every state. I have a big company with thousands and thousands of employees. And if I'm negotiating in New York or in New Jersey or in California, I have like one bidder. Nobody can bid.Because the insurance companies are making a fortune because they have control of the politicians.”

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Author:Donald Trump

“Many of the best YC companies have had phenomenally small number of employees for their first year, sometimes none besides the founders.”

Years Firsts Sometimes Numbers Company Team Employee Founders Small Numbers

Author:Sam Altman

“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.”

Firsts Company Team Involved Employee

Author:Sam Altman

“... if you talk to say any of the first 40 or 50 employees, they all feel like they were a part of the founding of the company.”

Ifs Feels Firsts Company Team Employee Founding

Author:Sam Altman

“The best source by far for hiring is people that you already know and people that other employees in the company already know.”

People Knows Company Team Source Employee Hiring

Author:Sam Altman

“Most great companies in tech have been built by personal referrals for the first...at least 100 employees and often many more.”

Firsts Has Beens Company Team Built Employee Great Company Referrals

Author:Sam Altman

“I think as a rough estimate, you should aim to give about 10% of the company to the first 10 employees.”

Thinking Giving Should Firsts Company Team Aim Employee Rough

Author:Sam Altman

“... fire fast when it's not working. It's better for the company, it's also better for the employee.”

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Author:Sam Altman

“Before 20 or 25 employees, most companies are structured with everyone reporting to the founder. It's totally flat.”

Company Employee Flats Founders

Author:Sam Altman

“As the company grows and about this 25 or so employee size, your main job shifts from building a great product to building a great company.”

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Author:Sam Altman

“We've seen a lot of data at YC now, and the most successful companies and the ones where the investors do the best... end up giving a lot of stock out to employees- year after year after year.”

Giving Years Ends Company Successful Data Employee Investors Do The Best Successful Company

Author:Sam Altman

“You want to think about what is the path for my first 10 or 15 employees going to be as the company grows.”

Thinking Want Firsts Grows Company Path Employee

Author:Sam Altman

“The most important thing you can learn as CEO- one of the hardest things to do is, you have to discipline yourself to see your company... through the eyes of the people that you're working through. Through the eyes of the employees, through the eyes of your partners... through the eyes of the people who you're not talking to and who are not in the room.”

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Author:Ben Horowitz

“I think Google's founders are both a couple of guys with some high ideals which have been to some degree reflected in the way the company has been run in terms of its having a very good workplace and good employee programs, and now that they're going public they want in some ways to be able to ensure that that kind of approach continues. So they've effectively put in place this notion of "Don't Be Evil".”

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Author:Joel Bakan

“We believe that a company's obligations extend far beyond its bottom line and its shareholders - to a wider constituency that includes employees, customers, suppliers, and the community.”

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Author:John A. Byrne

“Being an entrepreneur I love to help people, and I think through the products that we develop in my company, we will be able to help a lot of people. Whether it's help them to get over the difficulties of a technology and use it. Or helping employees, creating new jobs, new opportunities for people that work in my company.”

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Author:Anousheh Ansari

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