Best Employee Quotes | Short & Famous Sayings Page 15

“We are slaves in the sense that we depend for our daily survival upon an expand-or-expire agro-industrial empire—a crackpot machine—that the specialists cannot comprehend and the managers cannot manage. Which is, furthermore, devouring world resources at an exponential rate. We are, most of us, dependent employees. …Edward Abbey (1927-1989)”

World Depends Survival Resources Machines Slave Rate Manage Managers Employee Dependent Empires Specialists Devouring Abbey Crackpots

Author:Edward Abbey

“You do not know me, but I am a juvenile delinquent. I do not trust authority figures, I probably will not graduate from high school, and statistics say my present rowdiness and vandalism will likely lead to more serious crimes. I am a dangerous fellow, and I am causing mayhem in this store. [...] There. I have now shamelessly destroyed the symmetry of this shelf, undoing hours of labor by underpaid store employees. If you could see me, you would be frightened.”

“You did what you were told or you didn't get paid, and if things went wrong it wasn't your problem. It was the fault of whatever idiot has accepted this message for sending in the first place. No one cared about you, and everyone at headquarters was an idiot. It wasn't your fault, no one listened to you. Headquarters had even started an Employee of the Month scheme to show how much they cared. That was how much they didn't care.”

Ifs Firsts Shows Problem Care Months Messages Paid Faults Accepted Idiot Employee Schemes Headquarters

Author:Terry Pratchett

“The bottom line is down where it belongs – at the bottom. Far above it in importance are the infinite number of events that produce the profit or loss.”

Lines Loss Numbers Events Produce Importance Infinite Bottom Profit Appreciation Employee Bottom Line Employee Engagement

Book:Growing a Business

Source: Growing a Business

“Results are obtained by exploiting opportunities, not by solving problems.”

Problem Opportunity Results Business Appreciation Employee Problem Solving Employee Engagement Normalcy

Book:People and Performance

Source: People and Performance

“A lot of executives act like their time is worth more than anyone else's. But I always respect an employee who guards his or her time, even from me.”

Employee Executives

Book:The Art of Being Unreasonable: Lessons in Unconventional Thinking

Source: The Art of Being Unreasonable: Lessons in Unconventional Thinking

“You’re training a new employee,' says Mrs. Clark, 'to take over your boring old job.' When you raise a child.”

Children Jobs Training Raises Boring Employee Old Job New Employees

Book:Haunted

Source: Haunted

“The schoolmaster is the person who takes the children off the parents' hands for a consideration. That is to say, he establishes a child prison, engages a number of employee schoolmasters as turnkeys, and covers up the essential cruelty and unnaturalness of the situation by torturing the children if they do not learn, and calling this process, which is within the capacity of any fool or blackguard, by the sacred name of Teaching.”

Ifs Children Persons Hands Names Process Parent Numbers Situation Teaching Fool Calling Essentials Capacity Sacred Prison Cruelty Employee Consideration Cover Ups

Author:George Bernard Shaw

“I studied every thing but never topped.... But today the toppers of the best universities are my employees”

Inspirational Today University Employee Toppers

Author:Bill Gates

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

Firsts Three Sleep Bears Employee Alarms Goldilocks

Author:Billie Letts

“Life always gives us exactly the teacher we need at every moment. This includes every mosquito, every misfortune, every red light, every traffic jam, every obnoxious supervisor (or employee), every illness, every loss, every moment of joy or depression, every addiction, every piece of garbage, every breath. Every moment is the guru.”

“God is not an employer looking for employees. He is an Eagle looking for people who will take refuge under his wings. He is looking for people who will leave father and mother and homeland or anything else that may hold them back from a life of love under the wings of Jesus.”

People May Mother Father Jesus Wings Employee Refuge Employers Eagles Homeland

Author:John Piper

“you can always tell employees of the government by the total vacancy which occupies the space where most other people have faces.”

People Government Faces Space Novelists Employee Recognizing Faceless Vacancy

Author:John Kennedy Toole

“...[D]ivision of labor, in my mind, is one of the dangers of work-based technology. Modern IT infrastructure allows us to break projects into very small, discrete parts and assign each person to do only one of the many parts. In so doing, companies run the risk of taking away employees' sense of the big picture, purpose, and sense of completion.”

Mind Persons Bigs Running Purpose Business Company Break Technology Risk Modern Danger Projects Labor Employee Infrastructure Completion Big Picture Discrete

Author:Dan Ariely

“It proved once again the theory that no security system is a match for a stupid employee.”

Security Stupid Theory Employee Security Systems

Author:Steig Larsson

“Many schools include a service project as part of their curriculum, and many corporations have in-house projects for their employees or give them time off to do volunteer work.”

Giving School House Projects Corporations Employee Volunteer Curriculum Time Off Volunteer Work

Author:George H. W. Bush

“Do you know where Jason is?” she asked Dmitri when they exited the morgue. Dmitri pressed the car remote to unlock the flame red Ferrari parked in the employees-only lot. “Tired of your Bluebell already?” A tendril of champagne circled around her senses, cut with something far harder. Never had she felt that harsh edge in Dmitri’s scent. She pitied the woman he took to his bed today. “Yeah, that’s it. I’m building a harem.”

Knows Today Felt Cutting Car Building Bed Red Harder Yeah Tired Edges Senses Flames Employee Do You Know Harsh Scent Champagne Jason Ferrari Harem Bluebells Morgues

Book:Nalini Singh: Guild Hunters Novels 1-4

Source: Nalini Singh: Guild Hunters Novels 1-4

“A lot of what is wrong with corporate America has to do with a culture filled with antibodies trained to expel anything different. HR departments often want cookie cutter employees, which inevitably results in cookie cutter solutions.”

Want Different America Culture Results Solutions Filled Corporate Department Employee Cookies Cutters Corporate America Cookie Cutters Antibodies

Author:Nolan Bushnell

“Maybe I'm missing something, but I don't rightly see how somebody who claims to have had -What'd you say? One partner?-can be welled trained." He had a point. Her brain clicked away. "I was referring to the instructional videotapes my agency has all its new employees watch." "They train you by watching videos?" His eyes narrowed reminding her of a hunter looking down a gun sight,"Now, ain't that interesting." She felt a little surge of pleasure as her child lost another few points on the Iowa Test of Basic Skills. Even a computer couldn't have picked a more perfect match.”

“This isn’t a game. We don’t want mediocre employees who can keep the status quo. We want souls. We want to win. And you’ve spent most of your time here being mediocre.”

Want Soul Games Winning Employee Mediocre Status Quo

Book:Succubus Revealed

Source: Succubus Revealed

“Sallie Mae sounds like a naive and barefoot hillbilly girl but in fact they are a ruthless and aggressive conglomeration of bullies located in a tall brick building somewhere in Kansas. I picture it to be the tallest building in that state and I have decided they hire their employees straight out of prison.”

States Facts Girl Sound Building Decided Prison Employee Tall Aggressive Bully Naive Bricks Ruthless Kansas Barefoot Mae Hillbilly

Author:David Sedaris

“What a fate: to be condemned to work for a firm where the slightest negligence at once gave rise to the gravest suspicion! Were all the employees nothing but a bunch of scoundrels, was there not among them one single loyal devoted man who, had he wasted only an hour or so of the firm's time in the morning, was so tormented by conscience as to be driven out of his mind and actually incapable of leaving his bed?”

Men Mind Hours Morning Fate Bed Conscience Leaving Driven Bunch Firm Employee Loyal Devoted Suspicion Incapable Scoundrels Negligence

Author:Franz Kafka

“I'm glad you came here and got the help you needed," Neil says, and he shakes my hand in that way that people do in here to remind themselves that you're the patient and they're the doctor/volunteer/ employee. They like you, and they genuinely want you to do better, but when they shake your hand you feel that distance, that slight disconnect because they know that you're still broken somewhere, that you might snap at any moment.”

People Knows Way Want Feels Stills Moments Helping Hands Might Like You Broken Needed Doctors Distance Patient Glad Shakes Employee Volunteer Snaps

Author:Ned Vizzini

“You can make more friends in two months by becoming interested in other people than you can in two years by trying to get other people interested in you.”

People Inspirational Trying Years Two Interest Friendship Teacher Communication Months Friends Becoming My Friends Cute Employee Two Years Engagement Real Friends My Best Friend Networking Best Friend Employee Engagement My Friendship About Friendship Two Months Love And Friendship Friendship Love Friendship Memories Conceited One Line Friendship Best Friendship Cute Friendship Customer Satisfaction Inspirational Friendship Influencing People Friend Love Making Friends Great Friendship Meeting New People Relationships With Others Dealing With People Inspiring Friends Win Friends And Influence People Two Friends Beautiful Friendship Friends For Life Happy Relationship People Skills Friendship And Life Building Relationships Good Friendship Hands Together Awesome Friendship Friendships And Relationships Feeling Sorry For Yourself Celebrating With Friends Qualities Of A Friend More Than Friends Business Relationship Trust And Friendship Sincere Appreciation Moments With Friends Self Service Two Best Friends

Book:The Leader In You

Source: The Leader In You

“You're with me, Sadie. When you're off the clock, you're not my employee. You're my.. Air." I frowned at him. "Your air?" He grinned. "Well, girlfriend seems to be a shallow word for what I feel for you.”

Feels Wells Seems Air Clock Girlfriend Employee Shallow Sadie

Book:Breathe

Source: Breathe

“A boss wants to pay for results, an employee wants recognition for effort. If a boss recognizes effort, they will get even better results.”

Ifs Want Results Effort Pay Recognition Employee Boss

Author:Simon Sinek

“• People deserve a break. The stressed and unorganized person who doesn’t have the same priorities as you may be dealing with an autistic child, abusive spouse, fading parents, or cancer. Don’t judge people until you’ve walked a mile in their shoes. Give them a break instead.”

“If you have more than one reason to do something (choose a doctor or veterinarian, hire a gardener or an employee, marry a person, go on a trip), just don’t do it. It does not mean that one reason is better than two, just that by invoking more than one reason you are trying to convince yourself to do something. Obvious decisions (robust to error) require no more than a single reason.”

Ifs Trying Mean Persons Doe Two Reason Decision Goes On Doctors Errors Obvious Employee Convince Gardener Robust Veterinarian

Author:Nassim Nicholas Taleb

“In the first study, Grant and his colleagues analyzed data from one of the five biggest pizza chains in the United States. They discovered that the weekly profits of the stores managed by extroverts were 16 percent higher than the profits of those led by introverts—but only when the employees were passive types who tended to do their job without exercising initiative. Introverted leaders had the exact opposite results. When they worked with employees who actively tried to improve work procedures, their stores outperformed those led by extroverts by more than 14 percent.”

“You eat the room service employees every time?” Denise asked, shocked. “Of course. But don’t fret on their behalf. I always tip well.”

Wells Courses Rooms Employee Shocked Behalf Room Service

Book:First Drop of Crimson

Source: First Drop of Crimson

“A 'sign of weakness' for a male celebrity is being found to be unfaithful, or unkind to an employee, or having crashed their car while stoned out of their tiny minds. A 'sign of weakness' for a woman, on the other hand, can be a single, unflattering picture.”

Mind Hands Found Car Proud Weakness Males Feminist Tiny Employee Unkind Unfaithful

Author:Caitlin Moran

“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.”

Humans Made Promise Eating Harder Quitting Made It Hated Employee Staff Paperwork Quitter Tess New Employees

Author:Anne Bishop

“...remember the dangers of the New Groupthink. If it's creativity you're after, ask your employees to solve problems alone before sharing their ideas. If you want the wisdom of the crowd, gather it electronically, or in writing, and make sure people can't see each other's ideas until everyone has had a chance to contribute.”

People Ifs Want Writing Ideas Problem Remember Asks Chance Creativity Danger Crowds Solve Employee Groupthink

Book:Quiet: The Power of Introverts in a World That Can't Stop Talking

Source: Quiet: The Power of Introverts in a World That Can't Stop Talking

“The English language needs a word for that feeling you get when you badly need help, but there is no one you can call because you're not popular enough to have friends, not rich enough to have employees, and not powerful enough to have lackeys. It is a very distinct cocktail of impotence, loneliness and a sudden stark assessment of your non-worth to society? Enturdment?”

Needs Enough Helping Feelings Language Powerful Rich Loneliness Employee English Language Cocktails Assessment Starks Impotence Need Help Lackeys That Feeling You Get

Author:David Wong

“Be nice to nerds. Chances are you'll end up working for one.”

Ends Funny Success Work Chance Money Business Nice Inspire Irony Employee Sarcastic Being Nice Hilarious Nerd Employers Chances Are Not Fair Niceness Be Nice To People Wealth And Success

Author:Bill Gates

“Life's too short to be an asshole, as an employer or as an employee.”

Thinking Laughing Employee Graduation Too Short Employers Life's Too Short

Author:Louis C. K.

“Treat employees like partners, and they act like partners.”

Humor Funny Business Treats Partners Employee

Author:Fred Allen

“You have to look at leadership through the eyes of the followers and you have to live the message. What I have learned is that people become motivated when you guide them to the source of their own power and when you make heroes out of employees who personify what you want to see in the organization.”

People Want Looks Eye Leadership Source Hero Messages Organization Guides What You Want Employee Motivated Followers I Have Learned Through The Eyes Trailblazing

Book:Body and soul: profits with principles, the amazing success story of Anita Roddick & the Body Shop

Source: Body and soul: profits with principles, the amazing success story of Anita Roddick & the Body Shop

“As a leader, you're probably not doing a good job unless your employees can do a good impression of you when you're not around.”

Jobs Can Do Leadership Leader Impression Employee Good Job

Author:Patrick Lencioni

“There is only one thing worse than training employees and losing them, and that's not training them and keeping them”

Funny Leadership Knowledge Learning One Thing Losing Training Employee

Author:Zig Ziglar

“Nothing else can quite substitute for a few well-chosen, well-timed, sincere words of praise. They're absolutely free and worth a fortune”

“Why is it that govt employees makes the best spouses? Because afterthey come back from work, they are not tired and they already readthe newspapers.”

Politics Tired Newspapers Employee Spouse

Author:Julian Assange

“Always treat your employees exactly as you want them to treat your best customers.”

Source: The 7 Habits of Highly Effective People: Powerful Lessons in Personal Change Interactive Edition

“We needed to be uncompromising with our workforce, to expect 100 percent of our employees to comply 100 percent of the time with complex and ever-changing government mandates. Striving to comply with every law does not mean agreeing with every law. But, even when faced with laws we think are counter-productive, we must first comply. Only then, from a credible position, can we enter into a dialogue with regulatory agencies to demonstrate alternatives that are more beneficial. If these efforts fail, we can then join with others in using education and/or political efforts to change the law.”

“Contrast 1968, when the CEO of General Motors took home, in pay and benefits, about sixty-six times the amount paid to a typical GM worker. Today the CEO of Wal-Mart earns nine hundred times the wages of his average employee. Indeed, the wealth of the Wal-Mart founder's family in 2005 was estimated at about the same ($90 billion) as that of the bottom 40% of the US population: 120 million people.”

People Home Today Wealth Pay Millions Amount Six Benefits Hundred Paid Workers Bottom Average Population Billions Nine Employee Contrast Sixty Founders Typical Ceo Wages Motor General Motors

Book:Ill Fares the Land

Source: Ill Fares the Land

“Bullying consists of the least competent most aggressive employee projecting their incompetence on to the least aggressive most competent employee and winning.”

Winning Employee Bullying Aggressive Bully Competent Incompetence Bullied

Author:Tim Field

“Character is just another term for "good person." A person of character lives a worthy life guided by moral principles. A person of character is a good parent, a good friend, a good employee and a good citizen.”

Persons Character Parent Term Moral Principles Citizens Worthy Employee Good Friend Good Person Good Citizen Moral Principles Good Parent

Author:Michael Josephson

“If you work in an urgent-only culture, the only solution is to make the right things urgent.”

Ifs Culture Solutions Appreciation Right Thing Employee Urgent Employee Engagement

Author:Seth Godin

“There are only three measurements that tell you nearly everything you need to know about your organization's overall performance: employee engagement, customer satisfaction, and cash flow...It goes without saying that no company, small or large, can win over the long run without energized employees who believe in the mission and understand how to achieve it.”

“Research indicates that workers have three prime needs: Interesting work, recognition for doing a good job, and being let in on things that are going on in the company.”

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