Employee Quotes - Page 25

• If you purchased the latest Joss Stone CD, what you're saying is that you're an employee of VH1.

  Christian Finnegan

  Cds, Stones, Ifs

  "Best Week Ever", www.imdb.com. (2004-).

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• Nothing motivates a great employee more than a mission that's so important that it supersedes everyone's personal ambition.

  Ben Horowitz

  Ambition, Important, Missions

  "Every Executive In Your Company Should Have This Kind Of Ambition" by Ben Horowitz, www.businessinsider.com. August 30, 2010.

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• When I explain our company values and the foundation to prospective employees, they realize that they have an opportunity to do much more than change the way businesses manage and share information. When you take a workforce of smart, creative, dedicated people and say "take this company time to serve your community, and bring along your coworkers, customers, and partners" great things happen.

  Marc Benioff

  Business, Work, Smart

  Sonshi.com Interview, www.sonshi.com.

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• The goal should be to build a sustainable lifestyle business that does good for employees and customers - and that steadily builds wealth.

  Vivek Wadhwa

  Goal, Doe, Wealth

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• I'm back in fashion again for a while now. But I imagine that three or four years from now I'll be out again. And in another fifteen years I'll be back. If you try to write to stay in fashion, if you try to write to be the critics' darling, you become an employee.

  Edward Albee

  Fashion, Writing, Years

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• Only 20 percent of employees working in large organizations surveyed feel their strengths are in play every day. Thus, eight our of ten employees surveyed feel somewhat miscast in their role.

  Stephen Covey

  Inspiring, Leadership, Eight

  Stephen R. Covey, Rebecca R. Merrill (2008). “The SPEED of Trust: The One Thing That Changes Everything”, p.102, Simon and Schuster

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• Of course if you are launching a new business you can thinking about revenues, profits, and so on, but metrics such as customer satisfaction or employee retention might be meaningful if you are focusing more internally.

  Scott D. Anthony

  Meaningful, Thinking, Metrics

  Source: bobmorris.biz

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• People are always asking, "Is this person in front of me the same on the inside as he or she appears to be on the outside? Is there congruence between what's within that person and the words and actions I'm viewing and hearing externally?" Children ask that about their parents; students ask it about their teachers; parishioners ask it about their pastors and priests; employees ask it about their bosses; and in a democracy, citizens ask it about their political leaders.

  Parker J. Palmer

  Teacher, Children, People

  "The Teacher's Journey: An Interview with Parker J. Palmer". Interview with Ron Jackson, www.youthworker.com.

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• If you treat your employees like mushrooms (keep them in the dark and regularly throw crap on them), it's entirely likely you will get precisely the work you deserve in return.

  Seth Godin

  Dark, Mushrooms, Return

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• My obligation right now is to do well for myself, my family, my employees, for my companies. And that's what I do.

  Donald Trump

  My Family, Obligation, Wells

  First 2016 Presidential Debate Between Trump, Clinton, www.nbcnews.com. September 27, 2016.

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• Now, I will say, most American companies - most are run by honorable patriotic people who care about their employees and communities. But there are still too many powerful interests fighting to protect their own profits and privileges at the expense of everyone else.

  Hillary Clinton

  Running, Powerful, Patriotic

  Source: time.com

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• We need to support new organizing strategies for employees who too often have never had the benefit of collective bargaining, and we have to resist the assault on workers' rights.

  Hillary Clinton

  Rights, Support, Needs

  Source: time.com

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• This will include the various methods of internal monitoring, attack and penetration, investigation of suspected hackers or rogue employees - and you have plenty of rogue employees - and identity protection for government employees. The review team will also remain current on the constantly evolving new methods of attack and will attempt to anticipate them and develop defenses as often as possible before breaches occur.

  Donald Trump

  Team, Government, Identity

  "CNN Newsroom" with Carol Costello, www.cnn.com. October 3, 2016.

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• [Experts in cybersecurity] will also establish a training program for all government employees to make certain that they understand what defenses are available and utilize them, along with a continuing education program so everyone is aware of the newest methods of both attack and defense. That means attack and defense.

  Donald Trump

  Mean, Government, Training

  Source: time.com

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• When Colin Powell showed up as Secretary of State in 2001, most State Department employees still didn't even have computers on their desks. When I got there they were not mostly permitted to have handheld devices. I mean, so you're thinking how do we operate in this new environment dominated by technology, globalizing forces? We have to change, and I can't expect people to change if I don't try to model it and lead it.

  Hillary Clinton

  Mean, Technology, Thinking

  Source: www.buzzfeed.com

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• The sad news is, nobody owes you a career. Your career is literally your business. You own it as a sole proprietor. You have one employee: yourself. You need to accept ownership of your career, your skills and the timing of your moves.

  Andy Grove

  Business, Moving, Skills

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• All of my employees are having a tremendous problem with Obamacare.

  Donald Trump

  Obamacare, Problem

  Source: www.msnbc.com

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• We have also seen an economic crisis that is very serious within Venezuela, we are seeing cutbacks, I believe even more are coming in terms of electricity. Government employees no longer work on Fridays, and that has not been enough.

  Marco Rubio

  Friday, Believe, Government

  Source: www.univision.com

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• I'm saying that I believe Paula Jones, is what i'm saying. And I believe that that $14,000 a year Arkansas State employee being brought up to the governor's hotel room and him exposing herself as all the evidence said.

  Kellyanne Conway

  Believe, Years, Rooms

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• We have to build the capacity of our institutions, employees and workers.

  Narendra Modi

  Institutions, Capacity, Workers

  Source: www.deccanchronicle.com

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• Too many companies waste time trying to eliminate their employees' weaknesses when, in fact, they should concentrate on developing their strengths.

  Marcus Buckingham

  Trying, Weakness, Waste

  Source: bobmorris.biz

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• With all my employees, I listen to them, trust in them, believe in them, respect them and let them have a go! I never believe I know better than they do and have been fortunate over the years to build up a very strong management team whom I can trust and take advice from.

  Richard Branson

  Strong, Team, Believe

  "How To Turn Your Idea Into Reality – The Richard Branson Interview". Interview with Nathan Chan, foundr.com. May 30, 2018.

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• Having ideas and doing them - that's what entrepreneurship comes down to. That's something that makes you not just a great founder who I want to invest in, but also a great employee or someone I want to work with.

  Alexis Ohanian

  Ideas, Want, Entrepreneurship

  Source: thetartan.org

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• Because it's so empowering, I want people to think about being entrepreneurial regardless. They don't have to start companies, but that's what makes them great employees, that's what makes them great citizens.

  Alexis Ohanian

  Thinking, People, Empowering

  Source: thetartan.org

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• The focus on process rather than purpose creates an insidious opportunity for sly employees to manipulate the system.

  Laszlo Bock

  Opportunity, Focus, Purpose

  Laszlo Bock (2015). “Work Rules!: Insights from Inside Google That Will Transform How You Live and Lead”, p.138, Hachette UK

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