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Source: Secretary Jack Kemp Addresses the National Alliance of Business: Getting America and the World Moving Again : Democractic Capitalism in a New Millennium of Freedom : Washington, D.C., October 7, 1991

“We know when we use the full talents of our population we're more productive. And we know that when people really feel like they can have flexible lives, they're better employees.”

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Author:Sheryl Sandberg

“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.”

Thinking Men Want Should Kind Kids School Stuff Company Morning Wife Meetings Notes Gender My Wife Loyalty Employee Loyal Optional Missed You I Missed You

Author:Sheryl Sandberg

“It's great to be able to employ people who other people wouldn't consider viable employees.”

People Able Employee

Author:Queen Latifah

“The CEO of Enron, Jeffrey Skilling, married one of the Enron secretaries this week. It's amazing how romantic these Enron guys can be when they realize that wives can't be forced to testify against their husbands. Skilling said today she was the best secretary Enron had ever had. She could shred 950 words a minute. ... I guess they are on their honeymoon right now. That's going pretty well. Hey, he's used to screwing Enron employees.”

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Author:Jay Leno

“Introverts are more effective leaders of proactive employees. When you have a creative, energetic work force, an introvert is going to draw out that energy better.”

Energy Force Leader Creative Draws Employee Introvert Energetic Proactive

Author:Laurie Helgoe

“Profit isn't and shouldn't be the mission of business. The mission of business is to help people. To help your customers, your co-workers, your employees, and your partners. Success is not a number - it's not X dollars or Y customers - it's a measurement of VALUE.”

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Author:Fran Tarkenton

“I never wanted Ford to be a place, like the tobacco industry, where our employees were not proud of coming to work for us. I felt there was a danger of that, should we be marginalized as a major polluter.”

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Author:Bill Ford

“Employers should not be able to impose their religious beliefs on female employees, ignoring their individual health decisions and denying their right to reproductive care. Bosses belong in the boardroom, not in the bedroom.”

Should Care Able Individual Belief Religious Decision Female Employee Boss Bedroom Employers Religious Belief Reproductive Health

Author:Dina Titus

“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.”

States Social United Company United States Notion Employee Contracts Paychecks Social Contract

Author:Alex Berenson

“Continued focus on (employee) turnover is of critical importance, because of the direct relation of turnover to improvements in labor costs and guest satisfaction.”

Focus Cost Labor Direct Importance Relation Satisfaction Critical Improvement Employee Guests Turnover

Author:Finley Peter Dunne

“Top-down authority structures turn employees into bootlickers, breed pointless struggles for political advantage, and discourage dissent.”

Political Turns Struggle Authority Advantage Structure Employee Dissent Pointless Discouraging Top Down

Author:Gary Hamel

“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.”

Real Decision Company Policy Cold Authority Employee Rebel Engagement Ceo Blanket Employee Engagement Egocentric Cascade Supervisors Disenfranchised

Author:Gary Hamel

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

Ideas Company Lows Investing Positivity Lists Priorities Employee

Author:Shawn Achor

“You spend money on Internet connection for your employees. Why not spend money on the energy that fuels their brains?”

Energy Brain Internet Connections Fuel Employee Why Not Internet Connection

Author:Shawn Achor

“If a student takes a Stanford computer class and a Princeton business class, it shows they are motivated and have skills. We know it has helped employees get better jobs.”

Ifs Knows Shows Jobs Class Students Skills Computer Get Better Employee Motivated Better Jobs Stanford Princeton

Author:Daphne Koller

“Business is not a science; it is not susceptible to experiments that can be controlled and replicated. Everything in business is too unpredictable for that - every business, employee, product, market is different and keeps changing.”

Different Products Experiments Employee Controlled Unpredictable Susceptible

Author:Margaret Heffernan

“I emphasize to C.E.O.s, you have to have a story in the minds of the employees. It's hard to memorize objectives, but it's easy to remember a story.”

Mind Hard Stories Remember Easy Objectives Employee

Author:Ben Horowitz

“Shareholder value is the result of you doing a great job, watching your share price go up, your shareholders win, and dividends increasing. What happens when you have increasing shareholder value? You're delivering better employees to their communities and they can give back. Communities are winning because employees are involved in mentoring and all these other things. Customers are winning because you're providing them new products.”

“The more the specific feelings of being under obligation range themselves under a supreme principle of human dependence the clearer and more fertile will be the realization of the concept, indispensable to all true culture, of service; from the service of God down to the simple social relationship as between employer and employee.”

Humans Feelings Culture Social Simple Principles Concepts Supreme Obligation Realization Range Employee Dependence Indispensable Employers Fertile Social Relationships

Author:Johan Huizinga

“Next-door a baker's apprentice with his wife, an employee in a printing-shop, she has inflammation of the ovaries. Wonder what those two get out of life? Well, first of all, they get each other, then last Sunday a vaudeville and a film, then this or that club meeting and a visit to his parents. Nothing else? Well now, don't drop dead, sir. Add to that nice weather, bad weather, country picnics, standing in front of the stove, eating breakfast and so on. And what more do you get, you, captain, general, jockey, whoever you are? Don't fool yourself.”

“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

“Uncontainable is a love story. Kip and Sharon's love for each other, their precious family, their business journey of joy and, most of all, their pure and uncontainable love for their employees and their families is clear and happy proof that the future of business is building love cultures. Oh, and when you have love on the inside customers shower uncontainable love back at ya from the outside. Love on brother!”

Stories Joy Culture Clear Journey Building Brother Pure Customers Proof Love Story Employee Showers Sharon

Author:Roy Spence

“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

“I have long been profoundly convinced that in the very nature of things, employers and employees are partners, not enemies; that their interests are common not opposed; that in the long run the success of each is dependent upon the success of the other.”

Long Running Interest Common Enemy Convinced Partners Employee Dependent Long Runs Employers

Author:John D. Rockefeller

“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

“Vacations are designed to refresh the outlook of everyone. No matter how tired they may be when they return to work, vacationers have been refreshed emotionally and intellectually. Their effectiveness in their job has probably improved, and they are, generally speaking, better employees for the time off.”

May Has Beens Matter Jobs Return Tired Employee Vacation Outlook Effectiveness Time Off

Author:Bobby Fischer

“A man who tries to make the workmen believe that their employers are their natural enemies is indeed the worst enemy of workmen. For the employees of yesterday are the employers of today, and the employees of today can and will partly be the employers of tomorrow.”

Men Trying Believe Today Natural Enemy Worst Tomorrow Yesterday Employee Employers Worst Enemy Workmen Natural Enemies

Author:William J. H. Boetcker

“The approach and strategies are very similar in that you gather all the information you can and then keep adding to that base of information as things develop. You do whatever the probabilities indicated based on the knowledge that you have at that time, but you are always willing to modify your behaviour or your approach as you get new information. In bridge, you behave in a way that gets the best from your partner. And in business, you behave in the way that gets the best from your managers and your employees.”

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Author:Warren Buffett

“New Year, the season for changes in positions and advances in salaries, approaches. If you have in your employ some who deserve more salary, do not compel them to go through the unpleasant ordeal of asking a raise, but, rather, voluntarily increase their remuneration. A raise that comes from the boss without asking is worth a lot more than one that has to be gouged out of him. Is it not true that a great many employers who would not dream of overcharging their customers have no qualms whatever about underpaying their employees if the latter will submit without protest?”

“Do too many executives still indulge in the short-sighted habit of issuing orders without taking the slightest pains to explain to those responsible for carrying them out the whyfor and wherefor of the orders? Where employees come in daily and hourly contact with the public, surely it is important that care be taken to fit them to reply intelligently to courteous questions. ""Because them are orders"" isn't a satisfying reply-even less satisfactory to the management than to the public.”

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Author:B. C. Forbes

“The simple index fund solution has been adopted as a cornerstone of investment strategy for many of the nation's pension plans operated by our giant corporations and state and local governments. Indexing is also the predominant strategy for the largest of them all, the retirement plan for federal government employees, the Federal Thrift Savings Plan (TSP). The plan has been a remarkable success, and now holds some $173 billion of assets for the benefit of our public servants and members of armed services.”

“Backboneless employees are too ready to attribute the success of others to luck. Luck is usually the fruit of intelligent application. The man who is intent on making the most of his opportunities is too busy to bother about luck.”

Men Opportunity He Man Ready Intelligent Luck Fruit Busy Bother Employee Application Attributes Too Busy Success Of Others

Author:B. C. Forbes

“Management, in the sense of employer, is merely the agent for the public, the stockholders and the employees. It is management's job to preserve the balance fairly between all these interests, that each may have his fair share without imperiling the continuity of the effort upon which the whole depends.”

May Whole Jobs Interest Effort Share Depends Balance Fairs Management Agents Preserves Employee Employers Continuity Fair Share

Author:James F. Bell, III

“Customers long to interact with - even relate to - employees who act like there is still a light on inside.”

Long Stills Light Funny Educational Customers Relate Employee

Book:Take Their Breath Away: How Imaginative Service Creates Devoted Customers

Source: Take Their Breath Away: How Imaginative Service Creates Devoted Customers

“Loyalty is dead, the experts proclaim, and the statistics seem to bear them out. On average, U.S. corporations now lose half their customers in five years, half their employees in four, and half their investors in less than one. We seem to face a future in which the only business relationships will be opportunistic transactions between virtual strangers.”

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Author:Fred Reichheld

“It is possible to see slavery and serfdom merely as extreme early forms of autocratic management, in which employees had no voice whatsoever in the work process and were viewed not as human beings but as alienated forms of individual wealth. Slavery, in this sense, did not die; it continues in modern dress in contemporary organizations wherever managers exercise autocratic power, unequal status, or arbitrary privileges, no matter how scientific the terminology or postmodern the image”

“Yahoo has gone too far in wrongfully accusing us of a conspiracy that doesn't exist. If they are having problems retaining engineers, they should be looking at the internal sources of employee dissatisfaction rather than trying to cover that up with this legal action.”

Ifs Should Trying Problem Action Gone Source Employee Internals Conspiracy Engineers Dissatisfaction Accusing Retaining

Author:Jonathan Sacks

“What we have seen in the way of adaptation and adjustment seems to indicate that families are adjusting parenting to the world ofwork, rather than the labor markets and industries responding to the parenting and family needs of their employees.”

World Way Needs Seems Industry Labor Employee Adaptation Adjustment Responding Adjusting

Book:Parenting in an unresponsive society: managing work and family life

Source: Parenting in an unresponsive society: managing work and family life

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