Employee Quotes - Page 5

• The best executive is one who has sense enough to pick good people to do what he wants done, and self-restraint enough to keep from meddling with them while they do it.

  Theodore Roosevelt

  Inspirational, Relationship, Leadership

  Theodore Roosevelt (2015). “Theodore Roosevelt on Bravery: Lessons from the Most Courageous Leader of the Twentieth Century”, p.75, Skyhorse Publishing, Inc.

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• Effective leaders share two intertwined attributes: an unbridled level of confidence about where their organizations are headed, and the ability to bring people along.

  Howard Schultz

  Leadership, Organization, Two

  Howard Schultz, Joanne Gordon (2012). “Onward: How Starbucks Fought for Its Life without Losing Its Soul”, p.260, Rodale

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• 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.

  Marcus Buckingham

  Class, Long, Leader

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• When employers no longer offer secure full-time employment with benefits, then it's hard to expect employees to be loyal, engaged, and maximally productive.

  Stewart D. Friedman

  Employment, Benefits, Loyal

  Source: bobmorris.biz

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• Creating in all employees the awareness that their best efforts are essential and that they will share in the rewards of the company's success.

  Tom Peters

  Best Effort, Creating, Essentials

  "In Search of Excellence". Book by Tom Peters and Robert H. Waterman, Jr., 1982.

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• Public hangings are teaching moments. Every company has to do it. A teaching moment is worth a thousand CEO speeches. CEOs can talk and blab each day about culture, but the employees all know who the jerks are. They could name the jerks for you. It's just cultural. People just don't want to do it.

  Jack Welch

  Inspirational, Teaching, Names

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• Treat employees like they make a difference and they will

  James Goodnight

  Differences, Making A Difference, Treats

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• 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.

  David F. Swensen

  Retirement, Simple, Government

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• If I were a factory employee, a workman on the railroads or a wage-earner of any sort, I would undoubtedly join the union of my trade. If I disapproved of its policy, I would join in order to fight that policy; if the union leaders were dishonest, I would join in order to put them out. I believe in the union and I believe that all men who are benefited by the union are morally bound to help to the extent of their power in the common interests advanced by the union.

  Theodore Roosevelt

  Believe, Fighting, Men

  Theodore Roosevelt (2013). “Bully!”, p.366, Simon and Schuster

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• Your employees come first. And if you treat your employees right, guess what? Your customers come back, and that makes your shareholders happy. Start with employees and the rest follows from that.

  Herb Kelleher

  Firsts, Egomania, Treats

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• The bottom line is down where it belongs - at the bottom.

  Paul Hawken

  Lines, Employee Engagement, Bottom

  Paul Hawken (1988). “Growing a Business”, p.21, Simon and Schuster

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• Appreciate everything your associates do for the business.

  Sam Walton

  Appreciation, Appreciate, Team Building

  Sam Walton (2012). “Sam Walton: Made In America”, p.315, Bantam

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• Facebook has revealed their estimated net worth - $96 billion. That's almost as much money as businesses lose every year from their employees wasting time looking at Facebook.

  Jay Leno

  Years, Wasting Time, Billions

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• The best source by far for hiring is people that you already know and people that other employees in the company already know.

  Sam Altman

  Team, People, Source

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• The bottom line is down where it belongs – at the bottom. Far above it in importance are the infinite number of events that produce the profit or loss.

  Paul Hawken

  Appreciation, Loss, Numbers

  Paul Hawken (1988). “Growing a Business”, p.21, Simon and Schuster

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• Results are obtained by exploiting opportunities, not by solving problems.

  Peter Drucker

  Appreciation, Business, Opportunity

  Peter Drucker (2013). “People and Performance”, p.102, Routledge

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• If you work in an urgent-only culture, the only solution is to make the right things urgent.

  Seth Godin

  Appreciation, Culture, Employee Engagement

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• Business and human endeavors are systems...we tend to focus on snapshots of isolated parts of the system. And wonder why our deepest problems never get solved.

  Peter Senge

  Appreciation, Focus, Engagement

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• If you wish to have power and influence over the many, be faithful (disciplined) when there is just a few. If you have a few employees, a few distributors, a few people, that's the time to stay in touch and be totally absorbed -- when there is just a few.

  Jim Rohn

  Inspirational, Power, Discipline

  FaceBook post by Jim Rohn from Mar 17, 2016

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  Our mission statement about treating people with respect and dignity is not just words but a creed we live by every day. You can't expect your employees to exceed the expectations of your customers if you don't exceed the employees' expectations of management.

  Howard Schultz

  Inspirational, Encouragement, Educational

  "Grounds For Success". Interview with Scott S. Smith, www.entrepreneur.com. May 1, 1998.

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• The best organizations regard the nurturing of their employees as a spiritual mandate.

  Nancy Pearcey

  Spiritual, Organization, Nurturing

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

  Robert Reich

  Source, Dedicated, Wells

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• In my organizations I don't have employees; I have teammates. Yes, I do pay people and offer them benefits. But people don't work for me. They work with me. We are working together to fulfill the vision. Without them, I cannot succeed. Without me, they cannot succeed. We're a team. We reach our goals together. We need each other. If we didn't, then one of us is in the wrong place.

  John C. Maxwell

  Motivational, Team, Organization

  John C. Maxwell (2015). “The Leadership Handbook: 26 Critical Lessons Every Leader Needs”, p.7, Thomas Nelson Inc

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• And no business can possibly equate happy workers (community) with profit (effectiveness). Happy workers are much more productive workers and hence contribute to profit, but no organization is formed for the idea of pleasing its employees.

  Harvey Pekar

  Organization, Ideas, Effectiveness

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• We have the best leaders and the most depth of leadership we've ever had. If I get hit by a truck, maybe it would get me out of the way and it would go better.

  Charles Koch

  Leader, Depth, Way

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