Best Employee Quotes | Short & Famous Sayings Page 7

“Today, no leader can afford to be indifferent to the challenge of engaging employees in the work of creating the future. Engagement may have been optional in the past, but its pretty much the whole game today.”

May Has Beens Whole Today Past Games Challenges Leader Creating Employee Engagement Indifferent Engaging Optional Creating The Future

Book:What Matters Now: How to Win in a World of Relentless Change, Ferocious Competition, and Unstoppable Innovation

Source: What Matters Now: How to Win in a World of Relentless Change, Ferocious Competition, and Unstoppable Innovation

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

Problem Pay Company Employee

Author:Donal Daly

“I do great with Latino voters. I employee so many Latinos, I have so many people working for me, the Latinos love Trump, and I Iove them.”

People Love Trump Employee Voters Latino

Author:Donald Trump

“I love my brother and respect his talent but his present demand that I must give up my equal share of the band and that our drummer for 28 years and original partner, Steve Gorman, relinquish 100 percent of his share, reducing him to a salaried employee, is not something I could agree to.”

Love Giving Years Share Talent Brother Band Demand Equal Giving Up Percent Originals Agree Partners My Brother Employee Reducing Drummer Love My Brother

Author:Rich Robinson

“Take good care of your employees, and they'll take good care of your customers, and the customers will come back.”

Care Customers Employee

Author:J. Willard Marriott

“Workplaces need to respond to the reality of family life in the 21st century, and allowing employees to have seven sick days a year is a bare minimum, the fact that the United States is one of just a handful of countries that does not require paid family or sick leave is nothing short of shameful.”

“Government employees are public servants and prohibited by the Constitution from inhibiting religious freedom, that is a far cry from sneaking around and into a church and acting like KGB agents.”

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Author:Mathew Staver

“The structure that is currently in place, inside government, forcing government employees to pay union dues, even if they don't want to be in a union -- that is fundamentally unconstitutional and it is against the American system of freedom of choice.”

Ifs Want Government Choices Freedom Pay Structure Unions Dues Employee Freedom Of Choice Unconstitutional Government Employees

Author:Bruce Rauner

“I report the assault on nature evidenced in coal mining that tears the tops off mountains and dumps them into rivers, sacrificing the health and lives of those in the river valleys to short-term profit, and I see a link between that process and the stock-market frenzy which scorns long-term investments-genuine savings-in favor of quick turnovers and speculative bubbles whose inevitable bursting leaves insiders with stuffed pockets and millions of small stockholders, pensioners, and employees out of work, out of luck, and out of hope.”

“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.”

Ifs States Bigs Lines Company New York Politician Fortune California Employee Healthcare Artificial Jersey New Jersey Negotiating Insurance Companies Big Companies

Author:Donald Trump

“With my employees, if something is wrong and we can figure it out, okay, otherwise goodbye. Your employees are part of your success, so you have to share that, but the guests and the atmosphere have to be happy first.”

Ifs Firsts Share Figures Okay Atmosphere Employee Goodbye Guests

Author:Julie King

“I haven't really had too many bosses. Any bad boss I had probably was because I was a bad employee.”

Havens Employee Boss

Author:Jason Sudeikis

“It is one of the few elements in the process that a director really, really can't control: an actor's performance. If you have a director that understands that, it's comforting to an actor. You're starting the relationship more as a collaborator, rather than as an employee or some kind of a soldier trying to execute something you don't organically feel.”

Ifs Feels Trying Kind Actors Process Directors Elements Performances Starting Soldier Employee Comforting Collaborators

Author:Jason Bateman

“... but actually it sucks to have a lot of employees, and you should be proud of how few employees you have.”

Should Team Proud Employee Be Proud

Author:Sam Altman

“... you want to be proud of how much you can get done with a small numbers of employees.”

Want Done Numbers Team Proud Employee Be Proud Small Numbers

Author:Sam Altman

“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

“AirBnB spent 5 months interviewing their first employee, before they hired someone and in their first year, they only hired 2 people.”

People Years Firsts Team Months Employee Airbnb

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

“For early employees you want people that have somewhat of a risk-taking attitude.”

People Want Attitude Risk Team Employee Risk-taking

Author:Sam Altman

“You should be able to describe any employee as an animal at what they do.”

Should Able Animal Team Employee

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

“Founders are usually very stingy with equity to employees and very generous with equity to investors. I think this is totally backwards.”

Thinking Team Generous Employee Investors Founders Backwards Equity Stingy

Author:Sam Altman

“Employees will only add more value over time.”

Values Team Add Employee

Author:Sam Altman

“I believe in fighting with investors to reduce the amount of equity they get and then being as generous as you possibly can with employees.”

Believe Fighting I Believe Team Amount I Believe In Generous Employee Investors Equity

Author:Sam Altman

“One thing that founders forget is that after they hire employees, they have to retain them.”

Forget One Thing Team Employee Founders

Author:Sam Altman

“Every first time founder waits too long, everyone hopes that an employee will turn around. But the right answer is to fire fast.”

Firsts Long Turns Waiting Answers Fire Team First Time Employee Founders Right Answers

Author:Sam Altman

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

Company Fire Team Employee Working It

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

“When lack of structure fails, it fails all at once. What works totally fine from 0-20 employees, is disastrous at 30.”

Failing Fine Structure Employee

Author:Sam Altman

“You don't need to make the structure complicated, in fact you shouldn't. All you need is for every employee to know who their manager is.”

Knows Needs Facts Structure Complicated Managers Employee

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.”

Jobs Grows Company Building Products Size Employee Great Company

Author:Sam Altman

“You should be giving out a lot of equity to your employees.”

Giving Should Employee Equity

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 never want to be in a place where an employee has vested 3 out of the 4 years of stock and they start thinking about leaving.”

Thinking Want Years Leaving Employee

Author:Sam Altman

“Just put a little pin in your mind: when you cross 50 employees, there are a new set of HR rules that you have to comply with.”

Mind Littles Crosses Employee Pins

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

“As you grow, the productivity I think, goes down with the square of the number of employees if you don't make an effort.”

Ifs Thinking Grows Numbers Effort Productivity Employee Squares

Author:Sam Altman

“Any executive, any CEO should not have 1 management style. Your management style needs to be dictated by your employee.”

Needs Should Style Management Employee Executives Ceo

Author:Keith Rabois

“What you actually want to do with every single employee, every single day is expand the scope of their responsibilities until it breaks.”

Want Responsibility Break Employee Scope

Author:Keith Rabois

“If people start going to a desk, some one individual employees desk and they don't report to them... it's a sign that they believe that person can help them. So if you see that consistently, those are your barrels. Just promote them, give them more opportunity as fast as you can.”

People Ifs Giving Believe Persons Helping Opportunity Individual Reports Employee Consistently Desks Barrels

Author:Keith Rabois

“The key metric of whether you've succeeded is what fraction of your employees use that dashboard everyday.”

Use Keys Everyday Employee Fractions Metrics Dashboards

Author:Keith Rabois

“The agenda should be crafted by the employee who reports to the manager not the manager.”

Should Managers Reports Employee Agendas

Author:Keith Rabois

“Your employees know each other better than they know you.”

Knows Management Employee

Author:Ben Horowitz

“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.”

People Important Eye Rooms Company Talking Discipline Management Important Things Partners Hardest Things To Do Employee Ceo Hardest Thing Not Talking Through The Eyes Hardest Thing To Do

Author:Ben Horowitz

“When I think of organizations, I think of the capabilities an organization has more than its morphology or structure. The ability of an organization to have a shared purpose and the ability for employees to be productive are critical capabilities for most organizations today.”

Thinking Today Purpose Ability Organization Structure Critical Employee Productive Capability Morphology

Author:Dave Ulrich

“Don't get me wrong. I like Disney World. The rest rooms are clean enough for neurosurgery, and the employees say things like "Howdy, folks!" and actually seem to mean it. You wonder: Where do they get these people? My guess: 1952. I think old Walt realized, way back then, that there would eventually be a shortage of cheerful people, so he put all the residents of south western Nebraska into a giant freezer with a huge picture of Jiminy Cricket on the outside, and the corporation has been thawing them out as needed ever since.”

Source: Dave Barry Talks Back

“I am very confident that we will be able to convince all the stakeholders - the shareholders, the governments and the employees, that this is in their best interests.”

Government Motivational Able Interest Employee Convince Shareholders Stakeholder

Author:Lakshmi Mittal

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