“[Jeb Bush] could, as I describe it, run the railroad.[John] Kasich could run the railroad. Hillary Clinton can run the railroad. Running the railroad is the most important thing. You have got 4 million employees; you've got to make the system work, and it doesn't work very well.” WellsImportantRunningMillionsImportant ThingsClintonEmployeeRailroads Author:Michael Bloomberg
“When a player has a slump, we do not trade them, we coach them. It is the same with our employees.” PlayerTradeCoachesEmployeeSlumps Author:Simon Sinek
“I currently perform the most important political duties an American has the responsibility to perform - I experiment in self-government on a daily basis, fulfilling my "we the people" duties to monitor and guide our elected employees to adhere to their oath to the U.S. Constitution and demand accountability from them.” PeopleImportantSelfGovernmentPoliticalResponsibilityDutyDemandBasesConstitutionGuidesExperimentsEmployeeAccountabilityFulfillingOathSelf-government Author:Ted Nugent
“The heartbreak of runaway corruption, abuse of power and indefensible criminality by our government and media should, must inspire all good we-the-people Americans to wake the hell up from the embarrassing self-inflicted curse of apathy and start demanding Constitutional accountability from our elected employees.” PeopleShouldHeartSelfGovernmentHellMediaInspireAbuseCorruptionCurseEmployeeAccountabilityApathyEmbarrassingAbuse Of PowerRunawayCriminalitySelf Inflicted Author:Ted Nugent
“As a party of labor, the SPD must work together with the unions to ensure that people can make a living with their work. That is why I am not a proponent of the concept of unconditional basic income. I am, however, very much in favor of decent wage agreements, secure and lasting jobs, employee participation in decision-making and the examination of the social justification for claims and payments.” PeopleTogetherJobsSocialDecisionPartyConceptsLaborClaimsUnionsFavorsIncomeSecureDecentEmployeeAgreementWorking TogetherDecision MakingLastingJustificationParticipationUnconditionalExaminationPayment Author:Martin Schulz
“The first election in which all South Africans took part was in April, 1994. There were long queues [lines] of employers and employees, black and white. In the sense of Africans, Coloreds and Indians - when I talk about blacks, I mean those three. Blacks and whites mingled to vote without any hitches. Many people would have expected a great deal of tension, clashes and violence, but it did not occur.” PeopleFirstsMeanLongThreeBlackLinesWhiteDealsViolenceVoteElectionSouthExpectedTensionEmployeeBlack And WhiteSouth AfricaEmployersAprilClashQueues Author:Nelson Mandela
“I think it is possible to be friends with employees, but there has to be a respect level where you're not taken advantage of, either.” ThinkingLevelsTakenAdvantageEmployeeTaken Advantage Author:Kenny Chesney
“Barack Obama today is directing every federal agency to make sure we evaluate candidates on the level without regard to their employment history. So if you are a rotten employee, if you don't show up on time, if you don't get any work done, that cannot be examined as whether or not it makes sense to hire you. What we're gonna do is make sure that we only hire people who have been out of work the longest, because that's fair, regardless their work history, regardless whether they're qualified, this is Obama making it equal.” PeopleIfsHas BeensDoneShowsTodayLevelsEqualFairsRegardEmploymentBarackMake SenseAgencyCandidatesEmployeeQualifiedRottenEvaluateWork Done Author:Rush Limbaugh
“Most of my life, everybody made more money than I did at the places I worked. In fact, when I've been an employee, I have never been anywhere close to being the highest paid person there, never. I was working hard. I was working hard. I was doing things I didn't want to do, that I thought I should do. I was getting up every day, going to work, did not phone in sick. Striving. Trying to get ahead, you know, doing what Obama says, working hard and applying myself and trying to get ahead. There was always somebody, there were always a lot of people that earned more than I did.” PeopleKnowsWantShouldTryingPersonsMadeHardFactsHighestSickPaidStrivePhonesEmployeeMore MoneyGoing To WorkGet Ahead Author:Rush Limbaugh
“Business operators that really deeply care about their employees and consumers deliver the right response every day.” CareResponseConsumersEmployeeOperatorsReally Deep Author:Michael J. Silverstein
“Transform your employees into passionate disciples. Teach. Create apostles. Give people a calling, not a job.” PeopleGivingJobsTeachCallingPassionateEmployeeDiscipleApostles Author:Michael J. Silverstein
“As a leader, you have no right to have any employee wonder how they fit in and where they are going.” LeaderWonderFitEmployee Author:Jack Welch
“The best ideas can come from anyone within an organization. Leaders must remember that if they want employees to embrace a new organizational "Dream" or strategy, they need to include them and seek their ideas. Creativity is NOT just for the R&D department.” IfsWantNeedsIdeasDreamRememberLeaderCreativityOrganizationStrategyEmbraceDepartmentEmployeeOrganizational Author:Bill Capodagli
“Our proposal had more than just money. We would increase their staff and keep their headquarters, their brand and their management in place. We made them a comprehensive offer they couldn't refuse. Shareholders simply receive cash, but with the staff and management, we had to show that we could share the same vision. Employees would probably resent us if money were all [we offered].” IfsMadeShowsVisionShareOffersIncreaseManagementRefuseBrandsEmployeeCashStaffProposalComprehensiveResentShareholdersHeadquarters Author:Masayoshi Son
“Obama is attacking every business. He is attacking every employer and employee. He is attacking the system. He has a perverse mind.” MindEmployeeEmployersAttacking Author:Rush Limbaugh
“I want to defend the right of employees to share the gospel in appropriate situations. Every situation requires wisdom and insight. I don't think it's wise to say, "Share the gospel every time you can". I can see all kinds of problems that come from that approach.” ThinkingWantKindI CanProblemSituationWiseShareApproachInsightAll KindsEmployeeAppropriate Author:Mark Dever
“Workers should have a right to sit across from management to collectively bargain about their work conditions, their wages, and the future direction of the company. To me, that's just a humane thing to do. It is unacceptable in the 21st century to have companies not want to do that with their employees and create a great work environment.” WantShouldCompanyEnvironmentConditionsCenturyShould HaveManagementWorkersThings To DoEmployee21st CenturyWagesGreat WorkHumaneBargainsWork EnvironmentFuture Direction Author:Nina Turner
“The better a work environment is, the better it is for the employer - not just the employee.” EnvironmentEmployeeEmployersWork Environment Author:Nina Turner
“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.” TryingJobsWorkTeachFailingFailureExperienceTrainExperimentsEmployeeInventorKeep TryingLearning From FailureInventions And InventorsTrying And Failing Author:Charles Kettering
“There are two reasons [ business people are not publicly anti-Donald Trump ], one is well-intentioned, which is the classic kind of American notion. We want to be inclusive, we want to have our shareholders, our employees, our customers, whether they are Democrat, Republican, Green or Libertarian, to feel comfortable with how we're doing business. And so that tends to be apolitical. People say, "No, no, I just simply shouldn't get involved in politics."” PeopleWantFeelsWellsKindTwoReasonTrumpInvolvedRepublicanComfortableGreenDemocratNotionCustomersLibertarianClassicEmployeeGet InvolvedShareholdersApolitical Author:Reid Hoffman
“Other than areas of high-tech, fracking is probably one of the largest areas where concentrated growth in America's economy is taking place. There are oil booms in the Dakotas, in North Dakota. They are having to build entire cities, towns, to house employees showing up to work in fracking. The left is trying to shut it down under some claim that it destroys the environment. Natural gas and oil, of course, are the evil twins of opposition to the mainstream environmentalist wacko movement.” TryingAmericaCoursesEvilHouseLeftGrowthNaturalCitiesEconomyEnvironmentMovementAreasClaimsTownsOilEmployeeOppositionGasMainstreamTwinsEnvironmentalistShowing UpDakotaNatural GasFrackingNorth Dakota Author:Rush Limbaugh
“Everyone, you know, during crises times, is much more focused on, okay, how do we get the boat completely seaworthy, sailing along well, and everything going well? And so as long as you're communicating how the general strategy of the company and how the work they can do to add to that and to make that more successful and the thing that they can contribute to that, that is generally very motivating for employees in crisis times.” KnowsWellsLongCan DoCompanySuccessfulOkayCrisisStrategyAddCommunicateFocusedBoatEmployeeSailing Author:Reid Hoffman
“If you have to conduct layoffs, which is always a regrettable thing, there's kind of three things that are very important. One is to communicate well with your employees in order to help them understand why it is you're doing, and how. Second is to make sure that the employees who are part of the go forward, understand kind of what happened and are not like the ground doesn't keep moving. It's like, okay, we did that, we're moving forward, here we go. And then for the employees that you unfortunately have to let go, try to provide as much support for them as possible.” IfsTryingWellsKindImportantHelpingMovingOrderThreeSupportHappenedLetting GoOkayCommunicateMoving ForwardEmployeeThree ThingsKeep MovingLayoff Author:Reid Hoffman
“Studies show that women seeking power tend to be punished for doing so, because it goes against cultural bias. Women are expected to be likeable and pliant. We are also trained to expect any success we attain to come to us through men - by pleasing men, as good employees, good partners.” MenShowsStudySeekingExpectedPartnersEmployeeBiasLikeable Author:Catherine Mayer
“Reagan said that government is not the solution to our problems, government is the problem. And he was going to dismantle that government. Well, long story short, he failed to do that. He built up the military to a much greater status, more people in it, and actually more employees after the end of the Reagan administration. And, to achieve his objectives, he did some of the very same things that Trump is doing to achieve his. What Ronald Reagan really wanted to dismantle was the welfare state. And he had limited success in doing that.” PeopleWellsLongSaidEndsStatesStoriesProblemGovernmentWantedGreaterAchieveMilitaryTrumpSolutionsBuiltObjectivesAdministrationWelfareEmployeeWelfare StateLong Story Author:Brian Balogh
“Snerdley is one of the most loyal employees. Snerdley believes that I have only received about 2% of the credit that I deserve for a whole bunch of stuff. So any time he gets a caller like you he’ll put you to the top.” BelieveWholeStuffLike YouDeserveCreditBunchEmployeeLoyal Author:Rush Limbaugh
“The CEO announces that the purpose of the firm is to improve the lives of the customers and the lives of the firm's stakeholders and the quality of the planet. The company will give fair compensation to all the stakeholders and the CEO will not earn more than 20 times the median income of his employees. He will want his employees to rate him, just as he also has to rate them.” WantGivingPurposeQualityCompanyPlanetsFairsRateCustomersIncomeFirmEmployeeCeoCompensationStakeholderMedian Author:Philip Kotler
“When managers overdo micromanaging of others, they probably hired the wrong people or failed to give them a clear idea of what each one is to accomplish. I prefer to train employees to be self-managers, just as in an orchestra each performer knows his or her role without being micromanaged.” PeopleKnowsGivingIdeasSelfRolesClearTrainAccomplishManagersEmployeePerformersOrchestraMicromanaging Author:Philip Kotler
“Large companies cannot finance political parties as their shareholders and employees have different political views.” DifferentPoliticalViewsPartyCompanyFinanceEmployeePolitical PartiesShareholdersPolitical ViewLarge Companies Author:Mikhail Khodorkovsky
“Albert Murray's The Omni-Americans is the most valuable non-business book because it discusses how you have to draw upon everyone's creativity. America is a mash-up of cultures and traditions, and great businesses know how to tap the strengths of all their employees, whatever their background may be.” KnowsMayBookAmericaCultureCreativityKnow HowDrawsTraditionValuableBackgroundsEmployeeGreat BusinessMash UpCultures And Traditions Author:Kabir Sehgal
“Gone is the day where you work at a job for thirty years and retire. Millennials jump around and switch careers. I think it's important for CEOs to highlight career mobility within a company, so that employees don't get bored and continue to be stimulated.” ThinkingYearsImportantJobsCompanyCareersGoneBoredThirtyEmployeeRetiringCeoThirty YearsHighlightsMobilityMillennials Author:Kabir Sehgal
“I think the opposite version of me is the one we don't see, which is there are tens of thousands of outrageously successful businesses of very quiet, very calculated, calm executors who are confident. You can't be successful without being confident. They believe in themselves. They have their own version of assertiveness ... I think confidence matters and I think other things matter, like I would tell you empathy is probably why I'm more successful than confidence. I'm empathic to the customer, to my business partners, to my employees.” ThinkingBelieveSuccessfulQuietEmpathyCalmEmployeeBeing SuccessfulSuccessful BusinessBe ConfidentAssertiveness Author:Gary Vaynerchuk
“We're the only developed country in the world that doesn't have paid maternity leave. Paternity leave is just as important. Paid family medical leave so that you can take care of a parent, a child, a grandparent, whatever you need to do. I think we're shortsighted when we don't invest in our employees as companies, and as an economy, because we invest in them and they invest back in us.” ThinkingWorldChildrenImportantCountryCareParentEconomyTake CareMedicalEmployeeGrandparent Author:Sheryl Sandberg
“On the business side, innovative leaders are beginning to wake up to the fact that this non-stop work trend is bad for business: Google Ireland tested a program called Dublin Goes Dark, where employees turned over their phones at the end of each work day. It seems like a sea change is ahead.” DarkLeaderProgramWake UpEmployeeIrelandGoogleInnovative Author:Katrina Onstad
“Companies that understand the purpose and philosophy behind the "why" are usually astute, high- performing organizations that tap directly into the pulse of those they benefit the most. When utilized correctly, this understanding can create a powerful sense of duty and purpose for business teams because the employees know exactly whom they are working for and to what end.” PhilosophyPurposeUnderstandingPowerfulTeamDutyPerformingEmployee Author:Don Yaeger
“Great companies connect to the heartstrings of their employees to make their purposes known.” HeartPurposeEmployeeGreat Company Author:Don Yaeger
“Every leader can get more passion, ingenuity and energy from their people, and every employees wants to feel connected to a great cause. When this works, it really is amazing to see.” PeoplePassionEnergyLeaderEmployeeIngenuity Author:Adrian Gostick
“Seven percent of the Clinton foundation, the money raised, goes for travel and entertainment expenses for people that work at the foundation, including a lot of Clinton family people. So 7% travel, entertainment, whatever else - housing - for employees of the foundation, 5% donated to charity. Which is fine. Look, they're not breaking any law doing it. My only point is, they get the benefit of the doubt being people compassionate and caring greatly about people.” PeopleDoubtClintonCharitySevenCaringEmployeeCompassionateBenefit Of The Doubt Author:Rush Limbaugh
“One of the great strengths of American culture is this empowerment of individual, is the individual being able to be entrepreneurial, create new things. But you create a whole group of people to make great companies. It's employees and investors and customers and partners. The fabric of society, of a network of relations, is key to being successful.” PeopleCultureIndividualSuccessfulEmpowermentRelationEmployeeBeing SuccessfulInvestorsAmerican CultureEntrepreneurialGreat Company Author:Reid Hoffman
“I was grateful that Facebook already had generous bereavement policies . Now Facebook employees receive 20 days paid leave to grieve the loss of an immediate family member and 10 days for an extended family member. I'm proud that we're able to do this and I hope more businesses do the same. Only 60 percent of private sector workers get paid time off after the death of a loved one, and then it's usually just a few days. Workers and families deserve better than that.” LossPolicyProudDeserveGratefulGenerousGrievingEmployeeLoved OnesDeath Of A Loved OneBereavementExtended FamilyDeserve Better Author:Sheryl Sandberg
“When companies offer support and assistance for personal and family hardships, their employees become more loyal and more productive.” SupportEmployeeProductiveHardshipLoyal Author:Sheryl Sandberg
“"Benghazi happened a long time ago. We are unaware of any agency blocking an employee who would like to appear before Congress to provide information related to Benghazi." This is the modus operandi of the regime - any Democrat regime, actually. You stonewall it for a few months, and then after a few months go by you say, "It's an old story." Didn't Watergate happen a long time ago? It still seems to be really relevant, Watergate.” LongDemocratBlockEmployeeRelevant Author:Rush Limbaugh
“In general, workers under 35 highly value Millennials' ability to relate, be helpful, be open-minded, and be understanding. Employees over 35 appreciated their energy, enthusiasm, open-mindedness, fresh perspective, and understanding of new technologies. It is interesting, in my early research, Millennials entering the workforce reported advantages they claimed to have in the workplace. The advantages turn out to be strengths that are recognized in them as managers.” ValuesEnergyUnderstandingAbilityInterestingTechnologyPerspectiveEnthusiasmEmployeeHelpfulWorkplaceAppreciatedNew Technology Author:Chip Espinoza
“What you should be in a rush for isn't necessarily the immediate monetary return, but it's to know that this equation existing between an employee and a company is being honored. What's the equation? I'm going to give you my most precious thing that I have - my time and my reputation. That's what the employee says. And the company says I'm going to take your time and your reputation and direct it at things that we believe collectively have a huge impact opportunity to do something extremely positive. And that positivity will get measured in impact and also economic upside.” GivingBelieveOpportunityEconomicDirectPositivityReputationEmployeeHonoredMonetaryTake Your Time Author:Chamath Palihapitiya
“I would tell startups to just keep your head down, keep building. Your contingency plan, if you have one, should be because you are still spending more than you make and you still don't have a line of sight for that J curve. That is the most important contingency. Because otherwise you are betraying that equation to your cofounders, to your investors, to your employees and to your customers.” ImportantBuildingEmployeeInvestorsBetray Author:Chamath Palihapitiya
“On my very first day at T-Mobile, I demanded that every time I spoke publicly to the company, all employees across the country would be invited to watch. I faced legal and all that crap, but ultimately we were able to figure it out. We record it, too, so if somebody can't leave the sales floor, they can watch it later. Another thing I did very early on is give every employee stock, which we continue to do. So every time I speak to them I speak way over some of their heads.” GivingCountrySpeakEmployeeCrap Author:John J. Legere
“I tell employee of T-Mobile, "Listen, if some of this doesn't make sense to you, what should make sense is the reason I'm telling you - I respect you as an owner and as a partner and I'm going to tell you this all the time. Feel free to tune out."” ReasonMake SenseEmployee Author:John J. Legere
“When I go to T-Mobile retail stores, I jokingly tell the employees that everybody between me and them is the enemy. In effect, what I mean is that in my paramilitary hierarchy, if I can hear them and they can hear me, everything will be fine. All we need to do is make sure the entire company understands that it's their job to pass information between us. And so far so good.” MeanEnemyEmployee Author:John J. Legere
“It's kind of fun at my age to go back and talk to business-school people. I tell them, "I can summarize everything you need to know to lead a major corporation. Are you prepared to write this down?" And then they get all ready. I tell them I can summarize how I succeed as a leader: Listen to your employees, listen to your customers, shut the f - - up, and do what they tell you.” PeopleWritingKindAgeFunLeaderSucceedEmployee Author:John J. Legere
“I think that is a responsibility we all share as Americans. But as State Department employees, we have a special duty to guard ourselves and our sensitive information. Complying with department policies and being alert to potential threats will help protect all of us.” ThinkingHelpingResponsibilityShareSpecialPolicyDutyProtectThreatSensitiveEmployee Author:Hillary Clinton