Employee Quotes - Page 14

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

  Steven Wright

  Funny, Humor, Has Beens

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• 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.

  Stacy Peralta

  Running, Writing, Athlete

  Source: www.movieweb.com

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

  Alan Alda

  Communication, Boss, Helping

  Interview with Claudia Gryvatz Copquin, www.saturdayeveningpost.com. May/June 2013.

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• 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.

  Anita Roddick

  Powerful, Passion, Opportunity

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• 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.

  Kevin Mitnick

  Successful, Government, Touching

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• 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.

  Anne M. Mulcahy

  Believe, Differences, Making A Difference

  "Xerox reaffirms commitment here". Rochester Business Journal Interview, rbj.net. August 16, 2002.

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• 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.

  Leonard L. Berry

  Organization, Mind, Management

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• 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.

  Rands

  Jobs, Long, House

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• 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.

  Laura Poitras

  Thinking, Nsa, People

  Source: www.motherjones.com

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• 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.

  Joe McNally

  Lunch, California, Google

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• "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."

  Oliver DeMille

  Government, Tape, Credit

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• 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.

  P. J. O'Rourke

  Sleep, Class, Apples

  P. J. O'Rourke (2007). “All the Trouble in the World: The Lighter Side of Overpopulation, Famine, Ecological Disaster, Ethnic Hatred, Plague, and Poverty”, p.148, Grove/Atlantic, Inc.

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

  Anita Roddick

  Hero, Organization, Want

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• We've now become conscious of the uncalculated social, economic, and environmental costs of that kind of "unconscious" capitalism. And many are beginning to practice a form of "conscious capitalism," which involves integrity and higher standards, and in which companies are responsible not just to shareholders, but also to employees, consumers, suppliers, and communities. Some call it "stakeholder capitalism."

  Patricia Aburdene

  Business, Integrity, Practice

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• The most important job of the entrepreneur begins before there is a business or employees. The job of an entrepreneur is to design a business that can grow, employ many people, add value to its customers, be a responsible corporate citizen, bring prosperity to all those that work on the business, be charitable, and eventually no longer need the entrepreneur. Before there is a business, a successful entrepreneur is designing this type of business in his or her mind's eye. According my rich dad, this is the job of a true entrepreneur.

  Robert Kiyosaki

  Jobs, Dad, Business

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• The IRS spends God knows how much of your tax money on these toll-free information hot lines staffed by IRS employees, whose idea of a dynamite tax tip is that you should print neatly. If you ask them a real tax question, such as how you can cheat, they're useless. So, for guidance, you want to look to big business. Big business never pays a nickel in taxes, according to Ralph Nader, who represents a big consumer organization that never pays a nickel in taxes. . . .

  Dave Barry

  Money, Business, Real

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• I'm a free soul who hates paying attention to things I am not interested in. Consequently, I have rarely been comfortable in the role of 'employee.'

  Steven Solomon

  Hate, Work, Soul

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• Always let your employees come to work with a smile.

  Jack Ma

  Leadership, Business

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• Customers should be number 1, Employees number 2, and then only your Shareholders come at number 3.

  Jack Ma

  Leadership, Business, Numbers

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• 30% of all people will never believe you. Do not allow your colleagues and employees to work for you. Instead, let them work for a common goal.

  Jack Ma

  Leadership, Business, Believe

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• A leader should be a visionary and have more foresight than an employee.

  Jack Ma

  Leadership, Business, Visionaries

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• A leader should never compare his technical skills with his employee's.

  Jack Ma

  Leadership, Business, Skills

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• It isn't effective or productive to force your employees to do anything. Choice empowers people and makes for a more content workforce.

  Richard Branson

  Leadership, People, Choices

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• You'll attract the employees you need if you can explain why your mission is compelling: not why it's important in general, but why you're doing something important that no one else is going to get done.

  Peter Thiel

  Leadership, Important, Needs

  Peter Thiel, Blake Masters (2014). “Zero to One: Notes on Startups, or How to Build the Future”, p.95, Crown Business

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• Employee engagement is an investment we make for the privilege of staying in business.

  Ian Hutchinson

  Leadership, Engagement, Privilege

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