Employee Quotes - Page 15

• 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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• We are superior to the competition because we hire employees who work in an environment of belonging and purpose. We foster a climate where the employee can deliver what the customer wants. You cannot deliver what the customer wants by controlling the employee.

  Horst Schulze

  Educational, Competition, Climate

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• 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.

  Martin Zwilling

  Jobs, Team, Opportunity

  Source: www.foxnews.com

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• 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.

  James Bovard

  Odds, Government, Numbers

  James Bovard (2015). “Freedom in Chains: The Rise of the State and the Demise of the Citizen”, p.133, Macmillan

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• Despite the Internet 's origin in the late 1960s as a government sponsored means of communication between the Department of Defense, private industry, and academia, it has been at its best and generated the greatest economic, social, and technological benefits since it was 'liberated' by the hordes of 'geeks' who were originally hired to run it by employers who were not themselves conversant with computers, and couldn't tell when their employees were exchanging official traffic or trading dirty jokes and recipes for marijuana brownies.

  L. Neil Smith

  Running, Communication, Dirty

  "Keep Your Filthy Hands Off The Internet". The Libertarian Enterprise, www.ncc-1776.org. June 20, 2010.

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• 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.

  John Novak

  Jobs, Organization, Challenges

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• 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.

  S. Truett Cathy

  People, Want, Excited

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• 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.

  James Cook

  Unions, Vote, Malcontent

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• 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.

  James Cook

  Jobs, Educational, Moving

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• 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.

  Charlie Munger

  Believe, Men, Piano

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• [Our employees] do it not because we pay them more, but because they want to be part of something.

  Blake Mycoskie

  Want, Pay

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• Your employee should have superior technical skills than you. If he doesn't, it means you have hired the wrong person.

  Jack Ma

  Mean, Should Have, Skills

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• How do leaders serve their people? They may pay good wages and treat employees with respect.

  John C. Maxwell

  People, Leader, Wages

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• We all prospect, and don't even know we're doing it. When you start the dating process, you are actually prospecting for the person you want to marry. When you're interviewing employees, you are prospecting for someone who will best fit your needs.

  Zig Ziglar

  Dating, Needs, Want

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• If an enterprise does not aspire to be the best of its kind, it will attract second-rate employees, and it will be soon forgotten.

  Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi

  Doe, Kind, Forgotten

  Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi (2004). “Good Business: Leadership, Flow, and the Making of Meaning”, p.17, Penguin

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• Our belief is that if you get the culture right, most of the other stuff, like great customer service, or building a great long-term brand or empowering passionate employees and customers, will happen on its own.

  Tony Hsieh

  Long, Empowering, Culture

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• We call it the 'Rule of Crappy People'. Bad managers hire very, very bad employees, because they're threatened by anybody who is anywhere near as good as they are.

  Marc Andreessen

  People, Threatened, Managers

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