Employee Quotes - Page 13

• Quality, productivity, and innovation can be significantly increased if companies provide all employees with practical tools for exploiting potential information

  William Hunter

  Risk, Innovation, Quality

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• Management must provide employees with tools that will enable them to do their jobs better, and with encouragement to use these tools. In particular, they must collect data.

  George E. P. Box

  Encouragement, Jobs, Data

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• Meanwhile, what about the workers in those state monopolies that are being put up for sale? I am reminded of a technique for employee ownership that has worked well for many U.S. companies. It goes by various names, but the best known is "Employee Stock Ownership Program," or ESOP.

  Ronald Reagan

  Wisdom, Names, Technique

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• In a hierarchy every employee tends to rise to his level of incompetence ... in time every post tends to be occupied by an employee who is incompetent to carry out its duties ... Work is accomplished by those employees who have not yet reached their level of incompetence.

  Laurence J. Peter

  Business, Levels, Hierarchy

  The Peter Principle ch. 1 (1969)

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• Employees who report receiving recognition and praise within the last seven days show increased productivity, get higher scores from customers, and have better safety records. They're just more engaged at work.

  Tom Rath

  Safety, Records, Getting High

  "Be Nice: It's Good for Business". Interview with Jennifer Robison, www.gallup.com. August 2004.

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• Backboneless employees are too ready to attribute the success of others to luck. Luck is usually the fruit of intelligent application. The man who is intent on making the most of his opportunities is too busy to bother about luck.

  B. C. Forbes

  Intelligent, Opportunity, Men

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• Customers long to interact with - even relate to - employees who act like there is still a light on inside.

  Chip R. Bell

  Funny, Educational, Light

  Chip R. Bell, John R. Patterson (2009). “Take Their Breath Away: How Imaginative Service Creates Devoted Customers”, p.22, John Wiley & Sons

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• It is possible to see slavery and serfdom merely as extreme early forms of autocratic management, in which employees had no voice whatsoever in the work process and were viewed not as human beings but as alienated forms of individual wealth. Slavery, in this sense, did not die; it continues in modern dress in contemporary organizations wherever managers exercise autocratic power, unequal status, or arbitrary privileges, no matter how scientific the terminology or postmodern the image

  Kenneth Cloke

  Exercise, Organization, Voice

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• Yahoo has gone too far in wrongfully accusing us of a conspiracy that doesn't exist. If they are having problems retaining engineers, they should be looking at the internal sources of employee dissatisfaction rather than trying to cover that up with this legal action.

  Jonathan Sacks

  Trying, Gone, Action

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• 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.

  Gary Hamel

  Past, Games, Creating

  Gary Hamel (2012). “What Matters Now: How to Win in a World of Relentless Change, Ferocious Competition, and Unstoppable Innovation”, p.150, John Wiley & Sons

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

  Donal Daly

  Pay, Problem, Company

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• 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.

  Donald Trump

  Love, People, Voters

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• 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.

  Rich Robinson

  Love, Brother, Giving Up

  "Black Crowes have broken up, says Rich Robinson". www.theguardian.com. January 16, 2015.

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• 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.

  Rosa DeLauro

  Life, Country, Reality

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• 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.

  Mathew Staver

  Religious, Freedom, Government

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• 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.

  Bruce Rauner

  Freedom, Government, Choices

  "Illinois’ new GOP governor throws down gauntlet in union, spending fight" by Michael Tobin, www.foxnews.com. February 20, 2015.

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• I have never seen an employee who jumps out of bed in the morning in order to create shareholder value.

  Dov Seidman

  Morning, Order, Bed

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• 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.

  Bill Moyers

  Sacrifice, Rivers, Work Out

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• I have used the laws of this country just like the greatest people that you read about every day in business have used the laws of this country, the chapter laws, to do a great job for my company, for myself, for my employees, for my family, et cetera.

  Donald Trump

  Country, Jobs, Law

  Source: www.cbsnews.com

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• 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.

  Jason Bateman

  Comforting, Soldier, Trying

  "Toronto: Jason Bateman on Talks Directing Himself in ‘The Family Fang’". Interview with Kathy A. McDonald, variety.com. September 11, 2015.

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

  Sam Altman

  Team, Small Numbers, Done

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• Many of the best YC companies have had phenomenally small number of employees for their first year, sometimes none besides the founders.

  Sam Altman

  Team, Small Numbers, Years

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• You want to think about what is the path for my first 10 or 15 employees going to be as the company grows.

  Sam Altman

  Thinking, Firsts, Want

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

  Keith Rabois

  Style, Needs, Management

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

  Keith Rabois

  Responsibility, Want, Break

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