Employee Quotes - Page 10

• 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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• Companies that I've been very involved with, that have had a very bad first hire in the first 3 or so employees never recover from it.

  Sam Altman

  Team, Firsts, Company

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• You never want to be in a place where an employee has vested 3 out of the 4 years of stock and they start thinking about leaving.

  Sam Altman

  Thinking, Years, Leaving

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• Just put a little pin in your mind: when you cross 50 employees, there are a new set of HR rules that you have to comply with.

  Sam Altman

  Mind, Littles, Crosses

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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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• As you grow, the productivity I think, goes down with the square of the number of employees if you don't make an effort.

  Sam Altman

  Thinking, Numbers, Squares

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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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• If people start going to a desk, some one individual employees desk and they don't report to them... it's a sign that they believe that person can help them. So if you see that consistently, those are your barrels. Just promote them, give them more opportunity as fast as you can.

  Keith Rabois

  Believe, Opportunity, People

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• The key metric of whether you've succeeded is what fraction of your employees use that dashboard everyday.

  Keith Rabois

  Keys, Everyday, Dashboards

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• The agenda should be crafted by the employee who reports to the manager not the manager.

  Keith Rabois

  Agendas, Should, Managers

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• Your employees know each other better than they know you.

  Ben Horowitz

  Management, Knows

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• The most important thing you can learn as CEO- one of the hardest things to do is, you have to discipline yourself to see your company... through the eyes of the people that you're working through. Through the eyes of the employees, through the eyes of your partners... through the eyes of the people who you're not talking to and who are not in the room.

  Ben Horowitz

  Eye, Talking, Discipline

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• When I think of organizations, I think of the capabilities an organization has more than its morphology or structure. The ability of an organization to have a shared purpose and the ability for employees to be productive are critical capabilities for most organizations today.

  Dave Ulrich

  Thinking, Organization, Purpose

  Interview with Bob Morris, bobmorris.biz. August 19, 2011.

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• Don't get me wrong. I like Disney World. The rest rooms are clean enough for neurosurgery, and the employees say things like "Howdy, folks!" and actually seem to mean it. You wonder: Where do they get these people? My guess: 1952. I think old Walt realized, way back then, that there would eventually be a shortage of cheerful people, so he put all the residents of south western Nebraska into a giant freezer with a huge picture of Jiminy Cricket on the outside, and the corporation has been thawing them out as needed ever since.

  Dave Barry

  Funny, Humor, Mean

  Dave Barry (2010). “Dave Barry Talks Back”, p.69, Crown Archetype

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• I am very confident that we will be able to convince all the stakeholders - the shareholders, the governments and the employees, that this is in their best interests.

  Lakshmi Mittal

  Motivational, Government, Able

  "An unassuming billionaire with nerves of steel". Interview with Oliver Morgan, www.theguardian.com. February 25, 2006.

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• I think Google's founders are both a couple of guys with some high ideals which have been to some degree reflected in the way the company has been run in terms of its having a very good workplace and good employee programs, and now that they're going public they want in some ways to be able to ensure that that kind of approach continues. So they've effectively put in place this notion of "Don't Be Evil".

  Joel Bakan

  Running, Business, Couple

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• We believe that a company's obligations extend far beyond its bottom line and its shareholders - to a wider constituency that includes employees, customers, suppliers, and the community.

  John A. Byrne

  Business, Believe, Community

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• My day does not truly begin until I've acquired and consumed a 32-ounce Big Gulp of diet coke from 7-Eleven. It's the Big Gulp that's important, not 7-Eleven, where I find the employees rather disagreeable.

  Cate Marvin

  Important, Doe, Coke

  Source: www.redividerjournal.org

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• Being an entrepreneur I love to help people, and I think through the products that we develop in my company, we will be able to help a lot of people. Whether it's help them to get over the difficulties of a technology and use it. Or helping employees, creating new jobs, new opportunities for people that work in my company.

  Anousheh Ansari

  Jobs, Opportunity, Thinking

  Source: www.ncwit.org

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• It is very rewarding when you see your employees happy and excited about the success of the company. When you introduce something new, a product in the world that gets really high marks and everyone loves using it and raves about it. You will feel very good about it.

  Anousheh Ansari

  World, Rave, Excited

  Source: www.ncwit.org

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• My personal view is that nobody should stand between an employer and employee when it comes to employment contract negations. Not the government and not meddlesome third parties. This includes the ability for individuals to bargain collectively with their employers.

  Mark Noble

  Party, Government, Views

  Source: www.columbusunderground.com

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• I like being an employee. I like making somebody happy - and if they're not, then I'm crushed.

  Joaquin Phoenix

  Crushed, Ifs

  Interview With Elvis Mitchell, www.interviewmagazine.com. October 10, 2012.

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• The great irony of executive compensation is, if you pay your employees more, you're gonna create more demand for your goods and services! Which is gonna lead to more executive compensation than if you pay your employees less and try to take all the cream off of the top.

  Anthony Scaramucci

  Trying, Demand, Pay

  ""Life Is Unfair": Talking Inequality With The Hedge Fund Industry's Biggest Cheerleader". Interview with Hamilton Nolan, gawker.com. October 5, 2015.

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• Put First Things First! These four words cover an entire philosophy which can be applied with profit by every business leader, by every executive and by every employee.

  Thomas Watson, Jr.

  Leadership, Business, Philosophy

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