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“I have certain beliefs about how people should treat employees and how companies should be run, but I was really surprised though this process to learn that those beliefs are actually good business.”

People Should Running Certain Belief Process Company Treats Employee Good Business

Author:Adam McKay

“Woz and I started Apple in my parents' garage when I was 20. We worked hard, and in 10 years Apple had grown from just the two of us in a garage into a $2 billion company with over 4,000 employees.”

Years Two Hard Parent Company Billions Apples Employee Garage Two Of Us

Author:Steve Jobs

“If you ask the CEO of some major corporation what he does, he will say, in all honesty, that he is slaving 20 hours a day to provide his customers with the best goods or services he can and creating the best possible working conditions for his employees.”

Ifs Doe Asks Hours Conditions Honesty Creating Majors Customers Corporations Employee Goods Ceo Working Conditions

Author:Noam Chomsky

“Equal pay for equal work continues to be seen as applying to equal pay for men and women in the same occupation, while the larger point of continuing relevance in our day is that some occupations have depressed wages because women are the chief employee. The former is a pattern of sex discrimination, the latter of institutionalized sexism.”

Men Sex Pay Equal Men And Women Patterns Discrimination Chiefs Former Employee Latter Occupation Sexism Continuing Wages Relevance Equal Pay Sex Discrimination

Book:The Feminist Papers: From Adams to de Beauvoir

Source: The Feminist Papers: From Adams to de Beauvoir

“A fully functioning employee with a healthy self-image is money in the bank.”

Self Healthy Employee

Book:The Aquarian Conspiracy: Personal and Social Transformation in the 1980s

Source: The Aquarian Conspiracy: Personal and Social Transformation in the 1980s

“You must fire bad customers just as you would fire a bad employee. If you do not get rid of your bad employees, the good employees will leave. If I do not fire bad customers, not only will my good customers leave but many of my good employees will leave as well.”

Ifs Wells Fire Customers Employee

Author:Robert Kiyosaki

“The two most important things to remember in business are: to be aware of the consequential impact on ecology, and a caring relationship between employer and employee.”

Two Important Remember Important Things Impact Caring Employee Ecology Employers

Author:Dalai Lama

“You cannot love an employee into creativity, although you can ... avoid his dissatisfactions with the way you treat him.”

Way Creativity Treats Employee Dissatisfaction

Author:Frederick Herzberg

“The customer is number one, the employee is number two and the shareholder is number three. If the customer is happy, the business is happy, and the shareholders are happy.”

Ifs Two Three Numbers Customers Employee Shareholders Number Three

Author:Jack Ma

“I'm always just trying to get the work done so that I can be free - like, with the sense that, like, the real me has no interest in this? I just gotta do it for my boss. But the catch is that I'm never free, I never finish the work, so I don't know who this freewheeling employee with extracurricular interests is.”

Knows Trying I Can Real Done Interest Employee Boss Work Done Real Me

Author:Miranda July

“Remember, FDA employees are serious about fear. We pay these people to panic about an iota of rodent hair in our chili, even when the recipe calls for it. FDA employees are first-class agonizers, world champions at losing sleep. When Meryl Streep got hysterical about Alar, they actually checked the apples instead of Meryl's head.”

Source: All the Trouble in the World: The Lighter Side of Overpopulation, Famine, Ecological Disaster, Ethnic Hatred, Plague, and Poverty

“Make heroes out of the employees who personify what you want to see in the organization.”

Want Hero Organization What You Want Employee Trailblazing

Author:Anita Roddick

“My brother applied for work, but was told by the company that it had more employees than it needed. My brother said, "Don't worry. The little bit of work I do won't be noticed !!!"”

Littles Said Bits Company Worry Brother Needed Little Bit My Brother Employee

Author:Milton Berle

“The IRS spends God knows how much of your tax money on these toll-free information hotlines staffed by IRS employees, whose idea of a dynamite tax tip is that you should print neatly.”

Knows Should Ideas Know How Information Taxes Employee Print God Knows Tolls Irs Dynamite

Author:Dave Barry

“In the 1980s and 1990s, Jack Welch, the CEO of General Electric, laid off over 100,000 employees. His reward? When he retired from GE, he received a golden parachute of over $400 million dollars. This is the kind of corporate greed and irresponsibility that is destroying the middle class and must be ended.”

“Our most important education system is in the employees' own organization.”

Important Organization Employee Education System

Author:Peter Drucker

“If you find it difficult to accept failure then you simply won't get any innovation because employees will be too frightened”

Ifs Difficult Accepting Innovation Employee Frightened

Author:Terry Leahy

“The legendary statistical consultant W. Edwards Deming, . . . has called the system by which merit is appraised and rewarded 'the most powerful inhibitor to quality and productivity in the Western world' . . . it is simply unfair to the extent that employees are held responsible for what are, in reality, systemic factors that are beyond their control.”

World Reality Powerful Quality Responsible Western Productivity Factors Merit Employee Most Powerful Unfair Legendary Western World Consultants

Book:Punished by Rewards: The Trouble with Gold Stars, Incentive Plans, A's, Praise, and Other Bribes

Source: Punished by Rewards: The Trouble with Gold Stars, Incentive Plans, A's, Praise, and Other Bribes

“Putting the 10 commandments up to prevent crime is like putting 'Employees must wash hands' up to keep the piss out of your burger.”

Hands Crime Employee Commandments Burgers Hands Up

Author:Jon Stewart

“I love women who are bosses and who don't constantly worry about what their employees think of them. I love women who don't ask, "Is that OK?" after everything they say. I love when women are courageous in the face of unthinkable circumstances, like my mother when she was diagnosed with stage IV pancreatic cancer. Or like Gabrielle Giffords writing editorials for the New York Times about the cowardice of Congress regarding gun laws and using phrases like "mark my words" like she is Clint Eastwood. How many women say stuff like that?”

“...Silicon Valley's success comes from the way its companies build alliances with their employees.”

Way Company Employee Valleys Alliances Silicon Silicon Valley

Book:The Alliance: Managing Talent in the Networked Age

Source: The Alliance: Managing Talent in the Networked Age

“The underpinnings of the alliance: the company helps the employee transform his career; the employee helps the company transform.”

Helping Company Careers Employee Alliances

Book:The Alliance: Managing Talent in the Networked Age

Source: The Alliance: Managing Talent in the Networked Age

“I don't know about you, but I've saved cards that old high school flames wrote me as well as those that employees have written me over the years. The power of genuine, customized appreciation will never lose its value, even in a gloomy economy... in fact, it's probably what we're all thirsty for in this desert of a depression.”

Knows Years Wells Facts School Values Loses Economy Written High School Appreciation Saved Genuine Cards Desert Flames Employee Gloomy Thirsty

Author:Chip Conley

“You can always spot the employee playing golf with his boss. He's the fellow who makes a hole in one and says, "oops!"”

Fellows Golf Holes Spots Employee Boss Playing Golf Hole In One

Author:Bob Monkhouse

“Start with good people, lay out the rules, communicate with your employees, motivate them and reward them. If you do all those things effectively, you can't miss.”

People Ifs Leadership Missing Communication Lays Rewards Communicate Productivity Employee Good People Hospitality Funny Inspirational Great Employee

Author:Lee Iacocca

“American democracy is capsizing as a result of the vast increase in the number of government dependents and government employees.”

Government Results Numbers Democracy Increase Employee American Democracy Government Employees

Book:Freedom in Chains: The Rise of the State and the Demise of the Citizen

Source: Freedom in Chains: The Rise of the State and the Demise of the Citizen

“The sheer number of government employees and welfare recipients effectively transforms the purpose of government from maintaining order to confiscating as much as possible from vulnerable taxpayers.”

Government Purpose Order Numbers Vulnerable Welfare Employee Sheer Maintaining Taxpayers Purpose Of Government Government Employees Welfare Recipients Maintaining Order

Book:Freedom in Chains: The Rise of the State and the Demise of the Citizen

Source: Freedom in Chains: The Rise of the State and the Demise of the Citizen

“In the market economy the worker sells his services as other people sell their commodities. The employer is not the employee's lord. He is simply the buyer of services which he must purchase at their market price.”

People Lord Economy Sells Workers Employee Commodity Employers Buyers Market Economy

Author:Ludwig von Mises

“Not only has the number of government employees multiplied in recent decades, but the rise of government unions further stacks the political odds against private citizens.”

Government Political Numbers Citizens Unions Decades Employee Odds Government Employees

Book:Freedom in Chains: The Rise of the State and the Demise of the Citizen

Source: Freedom in Chains: The Rise of the State and the Demise of the Citizen

“Within two weeks of moving into the White House, Obama signed a series of executive orders championed by union bosses. The new rules authorized sweeping powers for the labor secretary that essentially blackball nonunion contractors targeted by labor organizers and blacklist nonunion employees in the private sector from working on taxpayer-funded projects.”

“More frightening to me than any policy or politician is the ease with which the public is played for fools with words. The latest example is the 'Employee Freedom of Choice Act,' a bill that will do away with secret ballot elections among workers voting on whether to be represented by a union. It is an open invitation to intimidation - which is to say, loss of freedom of choice.”

Choices Loss Secret Policy Example Fool Politician Election Bills Unions Workers Ease Employee Voting Frightening Invitations Ballots Freedom Of Choice Intimidation

Author:Thomas Sowell

“At every other workplace in the nation - even Mal-Mart! - workers are being laid off. But no one at any of the bloated government bureaucracies ever need fear receiving a pink slip. All 64,750 employees at the department of Health and Human Services are apparently absolutely crucial to the smooth functioning of the department.”

Needs Humans Government Nations Workers Department Employee Crucial Slips Receiving Smooth Workplace Bureaucracy Government Bureaucracy Laid Off Human Service

Author:Ann Coulter

“The United Auto Workers is AARP in an Edsel: It has three times as many retirees and widows as 'workers' (I use the term loosely). GM has 96,000 employees but provides health benefits to a million people.”

People Use Three Term United Millions Benefits Workers Employee Three Times Widows Health Benefits

Book:After America: Get Ready for Armageddon

Source: After America: Get Ready for Armageddon

“Follow the money, Washington reporters like to say. The money is this case comes from taxpayers, present and future, who are the source of every penny of dues paid to public employee unions, who in turn spend much of that money on politics, almost all of it for Democrats. In effect, public employee unions are a mechanism by which every taxpayer is forced to fund the Democratic Party.”

Turns Party Cases Effects Source Paid Unions Democratic Democrat Dues Employee Fund Mechanism Reporters Democratic Party Taxpayers Pennies

Author:Michael Barone

“When you buy bargains and they become better bargains, it is easy to start to question yourself, which can impair your judgement. Real or imagined concerns about client redemptions, employee defections can greatly influence behavior away from rational.”

Real Easy Influence Behavior Concern Rational Redemption Judgement Employee Clients Bargains

Author:Seth Klarman

“Some entrepreneurs have a bad habit of taking personal credit for all improvements and innovations at their startups. If you penalize or ignore employee initiatives, you can be certain that they won't be repeated, and motivation for more conventional performance will suffer.”

Ifs Motivation Certain Suffering Habit Performances Innovation Entrepreneur Credit Improvement Employee Initiative Conventional Bad Habits

Author:Martin Zwilling

“If it annoys you when team members ask about their next promotion or talk about other job opportunities in the industry, you have motivational problems in the making. You need to build a habit of proactively seeking employee interests and suggesting follow-up steps.”

Ifs Needs Problem Jobs Next Asks Opportunity Interest Steps Team Industry Habit Members Seeking Employee Annoying Promotion Suggesting Follow Up Team Member Job Opportunities

Author:Martin Zwilling

“A company invites their employees to sign up for a plan where every time they get a raise, some part of that raise goes to increasing their contribution rate to the 401k plan. In the first company we convinced to adopt this plan, saving rates tripled.”

Firsts Company Plans Raises Rate Convinced Saving Contribution Employee Invites

Author:Richard Thaler

“I find that when you lead with vision and values, engaging employees and showing them that values are just as important as profits, everyone comes on board. And not only do they come on board, but they connect to their own individual creativity.”

Important Values Individual Vision Creativity Profit Boards Employee Engaging

Author:Shari Arison

“You can never err by treating everyone in the building with respect, thoughtfulness, and a kind word. Everyone of our employees is an essential employee. Every one of them wants to be viewed that way. And if you treat them that way, they will view you that way. They will not let you down or let you fail. They will accomplish whatever you have put in front of them.”

Ifs Way Want Kind Views Failing Fronts Building Essentials Treats Accomplish Employee Kind Words Thoughtfulness

Author:Colin Powell

“Every employee can affect your company's brand, not just the front-line employees that are paid to talk to your customers.”

Lines Company Fronts Paid Customers Brands Employee Inspirational Customer Service

Author:Tony Hsieh

“Appreciate everything your associates do for the business.”

Source: Sam Walton: Made In America

“You want continual improvement? Then I challenge every employee in an organization to discard the status quo and ask themselves everyday, How can I improve my job?, then find a way to make it happen.”

Way Want Happens Jobs Asks Challenges Organization Everyday Improvement Employee Status Quo Make It Happen Continual Improvement

Author:John Novak

“The only thing worse than losing an employee you have trained is keeping an employee you haven't trained.”

Havens Losing Employee

Author:Zig Ziglar

“If you're excited about what you're doing, it's a lot more likely that your employees will also be excited. People want to work for a person, not a company. It's about relationships.”

People Ifs Want Persons Company Excited Employee

Author:S. Truett Cathy

“Unions are at a disadvantage in a company vote because the employees can see that the greatest advocates of unionization are often the malcontents and marginal workers.”

Company Vote Unions Workers Employee Disadvantages Malcontent

Author:James Cook

“Government employees move up the ladder through educational credentials rather than merit. People are given jobs and promotions based on seniority, race and gender rather than ability or talent. Such a system often overlooks the deserving and rewards the incompetent. There is no payoff for achievement.”

“Quoting Demosthenes, 'For what each man wishes, that he also believes to be true.' I would rather make money playing a piano in a whorehouse than arguing that no cost is incurred when employees are paid in stock options instead of cash. I am not kidding.”

Men Believe Wish Cost Paid Arguing Being True Making Money Piano Employee Cash Quoting Stock Options

Author:Charlie Munger

“Choose the right employees and then set them loose.”

Employee

Author:Carlos Slim

“Allow your team to incorporate giving into their life through their job. Not only do employees stay around a lot longer, they do a lot more good.”

Giving Jobs Team Employee Giving In

Author:Blake Mycoskie

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