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“I think Google's founders are both a couple of guys with some high ideals which have been to some degree reflected in the way the company has been run in terms of its having a very good workplace and good employee programs, and now that they're going public they want in some ways to be able to ensure that that kind of approach continues. So they've effectively put in place this notion of "Don't Be Evil".”

Thinking Way Want Kind Has Beens Running Able Guy Evil Term Business Company Couple Degrees Approach Ideals Program Notion Very Good Employee Founders Google Good Work Workplace

Author:Joel Bakan

“We believe that a company's obligations extend far beyond its bottom line and its shareholders - to a wider constituency that includes employees, customers, suppliers, and the community.”

Believe Community Lines Business Company Bottom Customers Obligation Employee Bottom Line Shareholders Suppliers

Author:John A. Byrne

“My day does not truly begin until I've acquired and consumed a 32-ounce Big Gulp of diet coke from 7-Eleven. It's the Big Gulp that's important, not 7-Eleven, where I find the employees rather disagreeable.”

Doe Important Bigs Diets Employee Consumed Eleven Coke Disagreeable Diet Coke

Author:Cate Marvin

“Being an entrepreneur I love to help people, and I think through the products that we develop in my company, we will be able to help a lot of people. Whether it's help them to get over the difficulties of a technology and use it. Or helping employees, creating new jobs, new opportunities for people that work in my company.”

People Thinking Helping Use Able Jobs Opportunity Company Technology Products Creating Difficulty Entrepreneur Employee Get Over New Job New Opportunity

Author:Anousheh Ansari

“It is very rewarding when you see your employees happy and excited about the success of the company. When you introduce something new, a product in the world that gets really high marks and everyone loves using it and raves about it. You will feel very good about it.”

World Feels Company Products Mark Very Good Excited Employee Something New Introducing One Love Get Real Rave

Author:Anousheh Ansari

“My personal view is that nobody should stand between an employer and employee when it comes to employment contract negations. Not the government and not meddlesome third parties. This includes the ability for individuals to bargain collectively with their employers.”

Should Government Individual Ability Views Party Thirds Employment Employee Contracts Employers Bargains Negation Third Parties Personal Views Meddlesome

Author:Mark Noble

“I like being an employee. I like making somebody happy - and if they're not, then I'm crushed.”

Ifs Employee Crushed

Author:Joaquin Phoenix

“The great irony of executive compensation is, if you pay your employees more, you're gonna create more demand for your goods and services! Which is gonna lead to more executive compensation than if you pay your employees less and try to take all the cream off of the top.”

Ifs Trying Pay Demand Irony Employee Executives Goods Cream Compensation Goods And Services Executive Compensation

Author:Anthony Scaramucci

“Put First Things First! These four words cover an entire philosophy which can be applied with profit by every business leader, by every executive and by every employee.”

Firsts Philosophy Leadership Business Leader Four Profit Employee Executives Business Leaders First Things First Put First Things First

Author:Thomas Watson, Jr.

“Well, we’re going to start in a couple weeks with our budget adjustment bill. The first step is we’re going to deal with collective bargaining for all public employee unions, because you use divide and conquer.”

Firsts Wells Use Deals Steps Week Couple Bills Unions Conquer Budgets Employee Collectives Divides First Steps Adjustment Bargaining Divide And Conquer Collective Bargaining

Author:Scott Walker

“In Japan, employees occasionally work themselves to death. It’s called Karoshi. I don’t want that to happen to anybody in my department. The trick is to take a break as soon as you see a bright light and hear dead relatives beckon.”

Want Light Happens Funny Death Work Break Humorous Tricks Department Employee Japan Bright Lights

Book:The Dilbert principle: a cubicle's-eye view of bosses, meetings, management fads & other workplace afflictions

Source: The Dilbert principle: a cubicle's-eye view of bosses, meetings, management fads & other workplace afflictions

“By providing our school districts with direct access to criminal information records, we can help ensure timely and complete information on prospective school employees.”

Helping School Records Information Perspective Direct Criminals Access Employee Providing Timely School Districts

Author:Jon Porter

“The economic system that the United States has is an evil empire. It's an economic system that's not fair, not just, and it's not democratic. And it will fall just like communism fell. The richest 1 percent now own 50 percent of the wealth. It didn't use to be that way. The average CEO 20 years ago made 20 times as much as the average employee. Now they make 212 times as much.”

“God is not an employer looking for employees. He is an Eagle looking for people who will take refuge under his wings.”

People God Wings Employee Refuge Employers Eagles

Author:John Piper

“And I particularly like the whole thing of being boss. Boss and employee... It's the slave quality that I find very alluring.”

Whole Quality Slave Employee Owners Boss Alluring

Author:Hugh Grant

“There was a time when the contractual relationship between the employer and the employee was supposed to be none of the public's business. That time has passed.”

Relationship Supposed To Be Employee Employers

Author:Frank Murphy

“Anything that you do to increase job security automatically does work for you. It makes your employees a closer part of the unit.”

Doe Jobs Business Security Increase Employee Units

Author:Roger Smith

“How come you don't ever hear about gruntled employees? And who has been dis-ing them anyhow?”

Has Beens Humor Funny Employee

Author:Steven Wright

“I've been a professional athlete, I've directed films, I've run a company with 150 employees, and nothing compares to writing a screenplay. Just the second I think I know what I'm doing, the rug gets pulled out and I have no idea what I'm doing. Because there are so many problems to solve.”

Thinking Knows Writing Ideas Problem Running Film Company Athlete Solve No Idea Compare Employee Screenplays Professional Athlete

Author:Stacy Peralta

“There's a tremendous loss of talent to businesses who cannot make room for their employees to attend to family responsibilities. It really amounts to corporate waste: They hire really talented women and then lose them because they can't find ways to keep them productive and content the minute they can't "lean in."”

Way Loses Loss Rooms Responsibility Minutes Talent Amount Waste Corporate Employee Productive Family Responsibility

Author:Anne-Marie Slaughter

“Our lives depend on good communication. Good communication helps personal relationships, it helps bosses and employees get along better. We rely on it.”

Helping Our Lives Communication Depends Rely Employee Boss Personal Relationships Good Communication

Author:Alan Alda

“The music business would be much better, for the youth and the kids, if they start hiring employees that understand the kids.”

Ifs Would Be Kids Youth Employee Music Business Hiring

Author:Suge Knight

“You educate people, especially young people, by stirring their passions, so you take every opportunity to grab the imagination of your employees, you get them to feel they are doing something important, that they are not a lone voice, that they are the most powerful and potent people on the planet.”

People Feels Important Young Passion Opportunity Voice Imagination Powerful Planets Employee Most Powerful Educate Stirring Lone

Author:Anita Roddick

“I obtained confidential information in the same way government employees did, and I did it all without even touching a computer. ... I was so successful with this line of attack that I rarely had to go towards a technical attack.”

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Author:Kevin Mitnick

“What do you really believe makes a difference in the company? For me it's really clear. It's about customers and employees. Everything else follows. If you take care of your customers and you have motivated employees, everything else follows.”

Ifs Believe Care Differences Company Clear Take Care Customers Making A Difference Employee Motivated

Author:Anne M. Mulcahy

“Management creates an empowered state of mind in the organization by treating employees as part-owners of the business and expecting them to act like owners.”

Mind States Organization Management Employee Owners State Of Mind Expecting Empowered

Author:Leonard L. Berry

“Contrary to what you think, your company will be a lot more productive if you refuse to tolerate competition among your employees.”

Ifs Thinking Company Competition Refuse Contrary Employee Productive Tolerate

Author:Alfie Kohn

“When the Vent begins, you might confuse [it] for a conversation. It's not. It's a Vent. It's a mental release valve and your job is to listen for as long as it takes. Don't problem solve. Don't redirect. Don't comfort. Yet. Your employee is doing mental house cleaning and interrupting this cleaning is missing the point. They don't want a solution, they want to be heard.”

Want Long Problem Might Jobs House Heard Missing Comfort Conversation Solutions Solve Release Employee Cleaning Doing Me Valve Interrupting House Cleaning

Author:Rands

“Bosses should sanction the nap rather than expect workers to power on all day without repose. They might even find that workers' happiness - or what management types refer to as "employee satisfaction results" - might improve.”

Should Might Results Type Management Workers Satisfaction Employee Boss Sanctions Repose Naps

Author:Tom Hodgkinson

“I think one of the most shocking things is how little our elected officials knew about what the NSA was doing. Congress is learning from the reporting and that's staggering. Snowden and [former NSA employee] William Binney, who's also in the film as a whistleblower from a different generation, are technical people who understand the dangers.”

“Seems Google management figured out it is cheaper, happier and more productive to take care of their employees and create a positive work environment than to burn them to a crisp, make them afraid of the future, and send them off into the highways and byways of California in search of a Taco Bell for lunch.”

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Author:Joe McNally

“"Thanks," many small businesspeople are saying, "but no thanks. Forget the government credits and loan programs, and just get rid of all the bureaucratic red tape and high taxes which make it hard to build businesses, hire employees and meet our payroll."”

Hard Government Forget Taxes Red Program Credit Thanks Employee Tape Small Business Loan Payroll Red Tape High Taxes

Author:Oliver DeMille

“I only wanted to be a good employee who generated as much profit as possible for his employer. I was merely a small cog in the machine - and now I'm suddenly supposedly the main person responsible for the financial crisis.”

Persons Wanted Machines Responsible Crisis Financial Profit Employee Employers Financial Crisis Cogs

Author:Jerome Kerviel

“Every company that has an economist working for him has one employee too many.”

Company Employee Economist

Author:Warren Buffett

“Unless you are building a new company from the ground up and can install caring as your businesses' cornerstone, you have to be willing to embark on a completely cultural overhaul so that, like a local mom and pop shop, every employee is comfortable engaging in customer service, and does it authentically.”

Doe Company Building Willing Mom Comfortable Pops Caring Customers Locals Shops Employee Engaging Cornerstones New Company

Book:The Thank You Economy (Enhanced Edition)

Source: The Thank You Economy (Enhanced Edition)

“The focus on process rather than purpose creates an insidious opportunity for sly employees to manipulate the system.”

Purpose Opportunity Process Focus Employee Manipulate Insidious Sly

Book:Work Rules!: Insights from Inside Google That Will Transform How You Live and Lead

Source: Work Rules!: Insights from Inside Google That Will Transform How You Live and Lead

“Self-managing is Job One. Have a vision and a mission. Surround yourself with talented people. Rely on effective coaching, not managing of employees.”

People Self Jobs Vision Missions Rely Coaching Employee Surround Surround Yourself

Author:Tom Gegax

“When I started out in Facebook, it had only 20 people. I saw it grow to a thousand employees and from five million users to over a billion users. I saw it evolve from a service that served college students to one that served the world.”

People World Grows Millions Five Saws Students College Thousand Billions Evolve Employee Users College Students

Author:Ruchi Sanghvi

“The journey from employee to entrepreneur was a complex and taxing one for an immigrant like me.”

Journey Entrepreneur Complexes Like Me Employee Immigrants

Author:Ruchi Sanghvi

“Whenever the boss has 'fun' activities, there's got to be a parable or a lesson. Employees feel like they're supposed to be taking notes.”

Feels Fun Lessons Activity Notes Supposed To Be Having Fun Employee Boss Parables

Author:Greg Daniels

“I interview every employeeand I have 3000 employees. It's an obsessive sickness.”

Interviews Employee Sickness Obsessive

Author:Stephen Starr

“I think maybe 50 years ago people and businesses felt like they had to choose between maximizing profits and making customers happy or making employees happy, and I think we're actually living in a special time where everyone's hyperconnected, whether through Twitter or blogs and so on. Information travels so quickly that it's actually possible to have it all, to make customers happy through customer service, to make employees happy through strong company cultures, and have that actually drive growth and profits.”

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Author:Tony Hsieh

“Having a higher purpose is more than just about profits. You actually end up making more profits in the long run because employees really are a lot more engaged and customers see the higher purpose in the company.”

Long Ends Running Purpose Company Higher Profit Customers Engaged Employee Long Runs Higher Purpose

Author:Tony Hsieh

“An MP is the only job where you have 70,000 employers, and only one employee.”

Jobs Employee Employers Mps

Author:Tony Benn

“The common wisdom is that ... managers have to learn to motivate people. Nonsense. Employees bring their own motivation.”

People Motivation Common Managers Employee Nonsense

Book:A passion for excellence

Source: A passion for excellence

“Employers and employees alike have learned that in union there is strength.”

Unions Employee Employers

Book:Public Papers of the Presidents of the United States: F.D. Roosevelt, 1937, Volume 6

Source: Public Papers of the Presidents of the United States: F.D. Roosevelt, 1937, Volume 6

“Well-trained and dedicated employees are the only sustainable source of competitive strength.”

Wells Source Employee Dedicated

Author:Robert Reich

“Steve Austin will never be employee of the month!”

Months Employee Austin Steve Austin

Author:Jim Ross

“The makeup of the drivers has changed a lot with so many young drivers coming and a lot of the legends moving on. Compared to when I started, it's gone through a lot of changes. The cars have changed a lot and the approach to racing. There are a lot more employees. It's become a much bigger business and more corporate.”

Moving Young Gone Car Changed Approach Bigger Corporate Employee Makeup Drivers Racing Legends

Author:Matt Kenseth

“People who expect to feel guilty tend to be more sympathetic, to put themselves into other people's shoes, to think about the consequences of their behaviour before acting, and to treasure their morals. As a result they are less prone to lie, cheat or behave immorally when they conduct a business deal or spot an opportunity to make money, studies suggest. They are also likely to make better employees because people who think less about the future results of their actions are more likely to be late, to steal or to be rude to clients.”

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