Home / Topics / Employee Quotes

Employee Quotes

Browse 1109 quotes about Employee.

Employee Quotes

“A sure sign of failure for a startup is when someone sends me logo-embroidered polo shirts. If your people are at shows and in public, it's okay to buy for your own employees, but if you really think people are going to wear your branded polo when they're out and about, you are mistaken and have no idea how to spend your money.”

People Ifs Thinking Ideas Shows Success Inspiring Business Power Okay No Idea Shirts Employee Mistaken Logos Branded Polo

Author:Mark Cuban

“Before you can have great employees you have to put them in a position to create their own future.”

Position Employee Great Employee

Author:Garrison Wynn

“Despite these hurdles, manufacturers in the U.S. and their employees are doing remarkable work.”

Despite Employee Remarkable Hurdle Hurdling Obstacles

Author:John Engler

“Today government touches everything in America and harms almost everything it touches. Federal, state, and local governments together spend 42 out of every 100 dollars we earn. Those who do the taxing and spending have long since ceased to work for the people as a whole. Rather, they work for themselves and for their clients-the education industry, the welfare culture, public-employee unions, etc.”

People Long States Whole Government Today Together America Culture Industry Dollars Unions Spending Harm Locals Welfare Employee Etc Clients Local Government

Author:Malcolm Wallop

“I also think that employees these days expect less of a separation of work and personal life. That doesn't mean that work tasks should encroach upon our personal time, but it does mean that employees today expect more from the companies for whom they work. Why shouldn't your workplace reflect your values? Why is "giving back" not a part of our jobs? The answer for us is to integrate philanthropy with work.”

“When I explain our company values and the foundation to prospective employees, they realize that they have an opportunity to do much more than change the way businesses manage and share information. When you take a workforce of smart, creative, dedicated people and say "take this company time to serve your community, and bring along your coworkers, customers, and partners" great things happen.”

“The goal should be to build a sustainable lifestyle business that does good for employees and customers - and that steadily builds wealth.”

Should Doe Goal Wealth Customers Lifestyle Employee

Author:Vivek Wadhwa

“I'm back in fashion again for a while now. But I imagine that three or four years from now I'll be out again. And in another fifteen years I'll be back. If you try to write to stay in fashion, if you try to write to be the critics' darling, you become an employee.”

Ifs Writing Trying Years Three Four Imagine Fashion Critics Crafts Employee Four Years Imagine That Fifteen Darling Fifteen Years I'm Back

Author:Edward Albee

“Only 20 percent of employees working in large organizations surveyed feel their strengths are in play every day. Thus, eight our of ten employees surveyed feel somewhat miscast in their role.”

Feels Play Leadership Inspiring Roles Ten Percent Organization Eight Employee

Book:The Speed of Trust: The One Thing that Changes Everything

Source: The Speed of Trust: The One Thing that Changes Everything

“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!”

Ifs Want Light Motivation Names Sound Including Happy Employee Productive Rooftops

Author:Vicki Donlan

“Ninety-nine point nine percent of all employees are in the pile because they don't think.”

Thinking Inspirational Percent Nine Employee Ninety Ninety Nine

Author:Jack Welch

“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.”

Ifs Dark Return Deserve Treats Employee Crap Mushrooms

Author:Seth Godin

“Tell a child, a husband or an employee that he is stupid or dumb at a certain thing, that he has no gift for it, and that he is doing it all wrong and you have destroyed almost every incentive to try to improve. But use the opposite technique, be liberal with encouragement; make the thing seem easy to do, let the other person know that you have faith in his ability to do it, that he has an undeveloped flair for it - and he will practice until the dawn comes in at the window in order to excel.”

Knows Trying Children Persons Use Seems Certain Order Easy Ability Practice Stupid Husband Window Opposites Encouragement Technique Destroyed Dumb Dawn Employee Have Faith Incentives Flair

Author:Dale Carnegie

“Karl Marx, a visionary, figured out that you can control a slave much better by convincing him he is an employee.”

Slave Employee Convincing Visionaries

Book:Incerto 4-Book Bundle: Fooled by Randomness The Black Swan The Bed of Procrustes Antifragile

Source: Incerto 4-Book Bundle: Fooled by Randomness The Black Swan The Bed of Procrustes Antifragile

“Onboarding – How To Get Your New Employees Up To Speed In Half The Time”

Half Speed Employee New Employees

Author:George Bradt

“The talented employee may join a company because of its charismatic leaders, its generous benefits, and its world-class training programs, but how long that employee stays and how productive he is while he is there is determined by his relationship with his immediate supervisor.”

World May Long Company Leader Class Benefits Training Program Determined Generous Employee Productive Charismatic World Class Supervisors Training Programs

Author:Marcus Buckingham

“I’ve seen how important this concept is in business. To be truly successful, companies need to have a corporate mission that is bigger than making a profit. We try to follow that at salesforce.com, where we give 1% of our equity, 1% of our profits, and 1% of our employees’ time to the community. By integrating philanthropy into our business model our employees feel that they do much more than just work at our company. By sharing a common and important mission, we are united and focused, and have found a secret weapon that ensures we always win.”

“Employees pay the highest percentage of taxes. Big business and investors pay the least.”

Bigs Pay Taxes Highest Employee Investors Percentages Big Business

Author:Robert Kiyosaki

“I believe employers should be aware that employees who earn under $10 an hour cannot lead an independent life. But I do not believe that government should dictate wages. We have seen this fail in Socialist and Communist countries. It will do irreparable harm.”

Should Believe Country Government I Believe Hours Failing Independent Harm Employee Communist Socialist Wages Employers Living Wage Irreparable Irreparable Harm Independent Life

Author:Richard Riordan

“The sad news is, nobody owes you a career. Your career is literally your business. You own it as a sole proprietor. You have one employee: yourself. You need to accept ownership of your career, your skills and the timing of your moves.”

Needs Moving Business Accepting Careers Skills News Employee Sole Ownership Timing

Author:Andy Grove

“Producers are now employees, not creators.”

Creator Producers Employee

Author:Marshall Herskovitz

“Typical pay increases are not enough to motivate employees, but they are enough to irritate them. … Even when companies create seemingly significant pay differentiation between low and high performers, the actual cash increase is insufficient to sustain performance – or it drives the wrong behaviors. … Effective management is a system, not a pay plan. The mistake is that companies try to solve all their problems with pay.”

“Our society has become an employee society.”

Employee Our Society

Book:People and Performance

Source: People and Performance

“If I had to run a company on three measures, those measures would be customer satisfaction, employee satisfaction and cash flow.”

Ifs Would Be Running Three Company Flow Satisfaction Customers Employee Cash Customer Satisfaction Cash Flow

Author:Jack Welch

“Religious liberty should mean religious liberty for everyone, employees as well.”

Mean Religious Liberty Employee

Author:Neera Tanden

“When the Commander-in-Chief of a nation finds it necessary to order employees of the government or agencies of the government to do things that would technically break the law, he has to be able to declare it legal for them to do that.”

Government Able Law Order Politics Nations Break Chiefs Agency Employee Commanders Commander In Chief

Author:Ronald Reagan

“Democrats love employees, it's employers they hate.”

Hate Politics Democrat Employee Employers

Author:Paul Tsongas

“Do Obama and Boxer realize they are on the wrong side of a tsunami of voter discontent with a government run by and for the public employee unions?”

Government Running Politics Sides Realizing Unions Employee Voters Discontent Boxers Tsunami

Author:Mickey Kaus

“A much more radical conclusion . . . that, so far as I know, is shared by only a very few students of public choice [is]: that government employees or people who draw the bulk of their income from government by other means should be deprived of the vote . . . It is another example of the opening up of alternatives for investigation and the presentation of new conceivable policy options characteristic of public choice, rather than a policy that all its students favor.”

“Let no one suppose that the words doctor and patient can disguise from the parties the fact that they are employer and employee.”

Facts Party Doctors Patient Employee Disguise Employers Doctors And Patients

Book:George Bernard Shaw: Collected Articles, Lectures, Essays and Letters: Thoughts and Studies from the Renowned Dramaturge and Author of Mrs. Warren’s Profession, Pygmalion, Arms and The Man, Saint Joan, Caesar and Cleopatra, Androcles And The Lion

Source: George Bernard Shaw: Collected Articles, Lectures, Essays and Letters: Thoughts and Studies from the Renowned Dramaturge and Author of Mrs. Warren’s Profession, Pygmalion, Arms and The Man, Saint Joan, Caesar and Cleopatra, Androcles And The Lion

“Exporting Church employees to Latin America masks a universal and unconscious fear of a new Church. North and South American authorities, differently motivated but equally fearful, become accomplices in maintaining a clerical and irrelevant Church. Sacralizing employees and property, this Church becomes progressively more blind to the possibilities of Sacralizing person and community.”

Source: The church, change, and development

“Today the large organization is lord and master, and most of its employees have been desensitized much as were the medieval peasants who never knew they were serfs.”

Has Beens Today Lord Masters Organization Slavery Employee Peasants Medieval Serfs

Author:Ralph Nader

“The majority of Americans receive health insurance coverage through their employers, but with rising health care costs, many small businesses can no longer afford to provide coverage for their employees.”

Care Cost Majority Health Care Rising Employee Small Business Employers Coverage Health Care Costs Health Insurance Coverage

Author:Jim Ryun

“Just as you would not permit a fellow employee to steal a piece of office equipment, you shouldn't let anyone walk away with the time of his fellow managers.”

Time Walks Pieces Office Fellows Stealing Managers Employee Permit Time Management Equipment

Author:Andy Grove

“In some cases, managers and employees have secured pensions beyond their original base salary. It is wrong, the people doing it know it's wrong, and we have to put an end to it.”

People Knows Ends Cases Originals Managers Employee Salary Pension Secured

Author:Jerry Brown

“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.”

People Thinking Knows World Way Wells Done Able Can Do Employee Surround Good People Greatest Gifts

Author:Kenny Rogers

“The world is full of CEOs that think that just because they write a memo or they write a letter inside an annual report or they give a little video speech that gets sent around the company, they think that's what's really going to affect employees.”

Thinking World Giving Writing Littles Company Speech Letters Video Reports Employee Ceo Annuals Memos Annual Reports

Author:Lou Gerstner

“Many priests and employees at temples work for pay. No one should judge religion on the basis of the shortcomings of such workers. We should frame suitable rules and regulations for preventing them from falling prey to material temptations. The true guiding spirits of religion are those who engage in selfless service while dedicating their entire lives to attaining the vision of God.”

“All institutions have lapses, even great ones, especially by individual rogue employees - famously in recent years at The Washington Post, The New York Times, and the three original TV networks.”

Years Three Individual New York Tvs Originals Institutions Posts Employee New York Times Great Ones Rogues Lapses

Author:Carl Bernstein

“I'm lucky that my restaurant partners are my wife Liz and Doug Petkovic. We opened our first restaurant over 15 years ago. And we didn't open up our second restaurant for almost ten years. So that gave us a good foundation of employees.”

Years Firsts Wife Lucky Ten Years Ago Foundation My Wife Partners Restaurants Employee Liz

Author:Michael Symon

“I don't believe any person looking for work is fearful of political judgment. Government is a large institution, and if they believe that people are going to get rid of good employees for political reasons, that's absurd.”

People Ifs Believe Persons Reason Government Political Judgment Institutions Don't Believe Absurd Employee Fearful Looking For Work

Author:Jan Brewer

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

Ability Cities Employee Interference

Author:Jane Byrne

“Our people are excited about building solutions, and it's rewarding to see how much fun Netscape employees have doing something they think is relevant and important.”

People Thinking Important Fun Building Solutions Excited Employee Relevant

Author:James L. Barksdale

“We can collaborate with a Netscape employee or partner who's halfway around the world. We can distribute information and software to customers and shareholders, and get their feedback.”

World Information Customers Partners Around The World Employee Software Feedback Halfway Shareholders

Author:James L. Barksdale

“When you cut that eggplant up and you roast it in the oven and you make the tomato sauce and you put it on top, your soul is in that food, and there's something about that that can never be made by a company that has three million employees.”

Made Soul Three Company Millions Cutting Your Soul Employee Sauce Tomatoes Ovens Eggplant

Author:Mario Batali

“I'm very, very bullish about our prospects, and as I tell our board, as I tell our employees, this is the time to invest. There's so much opportunity. Let's just invest in that opportunity, and really get after it.”

Opportunity Economy Boards Employee Prospects Bullish

Author:Steve Ballmer

“Under the AHP approach, the average small business might be able to offer their employees one or two insurance plans, and that employee of the small business would have no idea whether their doctor was going to be a apart of one of those plans.”

Two Ideas Might Able Plans Offers Approach Doctors Average No Idea Employee Small Business

Author:Jim Cooper

“I was a hostess in a restaurant in New York when I was 21, and I was too good of an employee. I was putting most of my energy into that instead of acting. But my father told my sister and me to look at whatever needed to be done and do that job well, no matter what it was.”

Wells Looks Matter Done Jobs Father Energy Acting New York Needed No Matter What Restaurants Employee My Sister Hostesses

Author:Emily Deschanel

“The support of organizations including the NY Jets, Canon USA, USA Football, and Outback Steakhouse is a great example of how corporate America can make an impact in bettering the communities where employees work and live.”

America Community Support Example Football Organization Impact Including Corporate Usa Employee Jet Canon Corporate America

Author:Boomer Esiason

“A businessman admits that he 'let go' an employee because he was a Sunni Muslim. You simply have to look after yourself, he explains. I am shocked, like a good Westerner should be.”

Should Looks Letting Go Employee Businessman Shocked Westerners Look After Yourself

Author:Robert Fisk