Employers Quotes - Page 2

• I thought that by saying no and explaining my reasons my employer would abandon his social suggestions. However, to my regret, in the following few weeks, he continued to ask me out on several occasions

  Anita Hill

  Regret, Saying No, Suggestions

  Opening Statement to the Senate Judiciary Committee, delivered 11 October 1991, Washington, D.C.

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• The costermongers' boys will, I am informed, cheat their employers, but they do not steal from them.

  Henry Mayhew

  Cheating, Boys, Stealing

  Henry Mayhew (1851). “London Labor and the London Poor: A Cyclopaedia of the Condition and Earnings of Those that Will Work, Those that Cannot Work, and Those that Will Not Work”, p.26

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• Even small cults are a serious cost on the world economy, to victims, their families, employers, friends, and credit-card companies.

  Keith Henson

  Cards, Cost, Credit

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• It's my father's legacy. My father's view was that the public is the employer of these government employees and has the right to know what they're up to.

  Jack Anderson

  Father, Government, Views

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• The AFL-CIO is a structure that divides workers' strength by allowing each union to organize in any industry, then bargain on its own, even when workers share a common employer.

  Andy Stern

  Cio, Unions, Afl

  "Labor leader calls for reform / Reorganization in order, says chief of fast-growing union" by George Raine, www.sfgate.com. June 22, 2004.

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• There are people walking around the streets of Kansas City who are unemployed, while one of our largest employers is not only sending jobs aboard, but then turning around and making a statement about preserving jobs.

  Emanuel Cleaver

  Jobs, Cities, Kansas City

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• The majority of Americans receive health insurance coverage through their employers, but with rising health care costs, many small businesses can no longer afford to provide coverage for their employees.

  Jim Ryun

  Majority, Cost, Rising

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• I've supported myself by writing since 1992, and I'm probably very nearly unemployable by now because employers are likely to be put off by the long gap.

  Greg Egan

  Writing, Long, Gaps

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• We found that when people put this issue on the table, it turns out that men acknowledge the issue, and employers and employees can work out solutions just as working mothers do.

  James Levine

  Inspiring, Mothers Day, Men

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• But my view is that you need a system at the border. You need some fencing but you need technology. You need boots on the ground. And then you need to have interior enforcement of our nation's immigration laws inside the country. And that means dealing with the employers who still consistently hire illegal labor.

  Janet Napolitano

  Country, Mean, Technology

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• The mere holding of slaves, therefore, is a condition having per se nothing of moral character in it, any more than the being a parent, or employer, or ruler

  Samuel Morse

  Character, Parent, Moral

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• If we can by any method establish a relation of mutual trust between the laborer and the employer, we shall lay the foundation stone of a structure that will endure for all time.

  Mark Hanna

  Trust, Foundation, Stones

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• I have always been fully persuaded that, through co-operation, labor could become its own employer.

  Leland Stanford

  Operations, Labor

  Leland Stanford (1887). “Co-operation of Labor: Views of Senator Leland Stanford of California. An Interview ...”

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• Laboring men can perform for themselves the office of becoming their own employers.

  Leland Stanford

  Men, Office, Becoming

  Leland Stanford (1887). “Co-operation of Labor: Views of Senator Leland Stanford of California. An Interview ...”

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• Soaring prescription drug costs have placed a tremendous strain on family budgets. They have also imposed a heavy burden on employers - both public and private - who are struggling to provide affordable health insurance coverage to their workers.

  Susan Collins

  Struggle, Drug, Cost

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• My employer was never at any time aware of anything in my past beyond the writing I did, because, frankly, it isn't relevant to the job I was asked to do, which was to be a reporter.

  Jeff Gannon

  Jobs, Writing, Past

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• The government's Small Business Administration reports that small businesses represent 99% of all employers in the U.S. and are responsible for generating well over half of new jobs created.

  Ellen Tauscher

  Jobs, Government, New Job

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• No strike could ever be won with a Communist at its head since the employers would make victory impossible.

  James P. Cannon

  Victory, Impossible, Communist

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• Hardly a competent workman can be found who does not devote a considerable amount of time to studying just how slowly he can work and still convince his employer that he is going at a good pace.

  Frederick Winslow Taylor

  Time, Work, Doe

  Frederick Winslow Taylor (1947). “Scientific Management, Comprising Shop Management: The Principles of Scientific Management [and] Testimony Before the Special House Committee”, New York, Harper

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• When employers tell me they prefer married men, and encourage their men to have homes of their own, because it makes them so much steadier, I wonder if they have any idea of all that that implies.

  Alice Hamilton

  Home, Men, Ideas

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• Employee loyalty begins with employer loyalty. Your employees should know that if they do the job they were hired to do with a reasonable amount of competence and efficiency, you will support them.

  Harvey Mackay

  Loyalty, Jobs, Support

  Harvey Mackay (2011). “The Mackay MBA of Selling in the Real World”, p.4, Penguin

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• You must therefore zealously guard in his mind the curious assumption 'My time is my own'. Let him have the feeling that he starts each day as the lawful possessor of twenty-four hours. Let him feel as a grievous tax that portion of this property which he has to make over to him employers, and as a generous donation that further portion which h allows to religious duties. But what he must never be permitted to doubt is that the total from which these deductions have been made was, in some mysterious sense, his own personal birthright.

  C. S. Lewis

  Religious, Feelings, Doubt

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• As a modern employer you have to treat people well.

  James Dyson

  People, Modern, Treats

  "James Dyson calls for looser employment laws and shorter leases". Interview with Charles Arthur, www.theguardian.com. March 1, 2012.

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• If rewards do not work, what does? I recommend that employers pay workers well and fairly and then do everything possible to help them forget about money. A preoccupation with money distracts everyone - employers and employees - from the issues that really matter.

  Alfie Kohn

  Issues, Doe, Pay

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• As for my own business, even that kind of surveying which I could do with most satisfaction my employers do not want. They would prefer that I should do my work coarsely and not too well, ay, not well enough. When I observe that there are different ways of surveying, my employer commonly asks which will give him the most land, not which is most correct.

  Henry David Thoreau

  Land, Giving, Different

  Henry David Thoreau (2017). “Collected Works of Henry David Thoreau (Illustrated): Philosophical and Autobiographical Books, Essays, Poetry, Translations, Biographies & Letters: Walden, Civil Disobedience, The Maine Woods, Cape Cod, Slavery in Massachusetts, Walking…”, p.1096, e-artnow

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