Employee Quotes - Page 20

• To get the best coaching outcomes, always have your 1-on-1's on your employee's turf not yours. In your office the truth hides.

  Marcus Buckingham

  Office, Inspire, Coaching

  Twitter post from Mar 28, 2012

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• Publishing is the only industry I can think of where most of the employees spend most of their time stating with great self-assurance that they don't know how to do their jobs. "I don't know how to sell this," they explain, frowning, as though it's your fault. "I don't know how to package this. I don't know what the market is for this book. I don't know how we're going to draw attention to this." In most occupations, people try to hide their incompetence; only in publishing is it flaunted as though it were the chief qualification for the job.

  Donald E. Westlake

  Jobs, Book, Thinking

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• One function of the librarian, as he saw it, was to blunt the edge of these differences and to provide a means whereby the rich and poor could live happily side by side. The public library was a great leveler, supplying a literature by which the ordinary man could experience some of the pleasures of the rich, and providing a common ground where employer and employee could meet on equal terms.

  Lewis Henry Steiner

  Mean, Men, Differences

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• The central problem of management is how spontaneous interaction of people within a firm, each possessing only bits of knowledge, can bring about the competitive success that could only be achieved by the deliberate direction of a senior management that possesses the combined knowledge of all employees and contractors

  Friedrich August von Hayek

  Senior, People, Management

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• Interest rates are going to go up because employment is going to go up. If employment goes up, then our apartments get filled. And if employment goes up, our office buildings get filled. The reality is that increased economic activity combined with increased interest rates is basically bullish for real estate.

  Sam Zell

  Real, Office, Employment

  "Zell tells of optimistic outlook on real estate". Interview with Denny Gainer, usatoday30.usatoday.com. May 2, 2004.

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• Why would you pour a foundation, buy machines, hire employees, if you can make as much money buying bonds?

  Frank Stronach

  Foundation, Machines, Buying

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• When you go back to your environment and you deal with employees... do you inspire people or do you make them feel fear? Do you make them feel confident or incompetent? I think that distinction really marks the leader.

  Liz Murray

  Leadership, Respect, Thinking

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• The buck stops with me, but I can tick off dozens of very good senior executives that are responsible for hundreds or thousands of people who work for me.

  Rupert Murdoch

  Senior, Responsibility, People

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• To build and sustain brands people love and trust, one must focus-not only on today but also on tomorrow. It's not easy...but balancing the short and long term is key to delivering sustainable, profitable growth-growth that is good for our shareholders but also good for our consumers, our employees, our business partners, the communities where we live and work, and the planet we inhabit

  Irene Rosenfeld

  Responsibility, Keys, Long

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• It's for management to enthuse & motivate employees towards excellence in service; the profit incentive doesn't last

  Phil Harding

  Business, Excellence, Incentives

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• ...how engaged are your employees right now? You may consider such a question impossible to answer, but the truth is, you need to know this if you want a more profitable, ethical organization, as everyone must share the same values to make the changes genuine

  Jim Craig

  Business, Organization, Needs

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• The New Capitalism (arising from the global economic downturn)...those running our biggest commercial businesses will have to be more visible. They'll have to manifest a genuine understanding not only of the anxieties of their employees but of all taxpayers. Those chief executives who succeed will be those who imbue in their businesses very simple, commonsense standards of decency

  Robert Peston

  Running, Business, Simple

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• If you are a parent, you have probably already realized that your children are always watching what you do. And just as children watch their parents and emulate their behavior, so do employees who are watching their bosses.

  John C. Maxwell

  Leadership, Children, Boss

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• Many Enron employees lost 70 percent to 90 percent of their retirement assets after the company indicated that it would re-state profit reports.

  Elaine Chao

  Retirement, Lost, Assets

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• A huge insight was the power of simply telling employees the truth. If things aren’t going well, tell them.

  David M. Cote

  Insight, Wells, Huge

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• I’m glad to be part of the war on sadness. I’m a part time employee of the illusion that keeps people stupid.

  Marc Maron

  War, Stupid, Sadness

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• All Government employees should realize that the process of collective bargaining, as usually understood, cannot be transplanted into the public service.

  Franklin D. Roosevelt

  Government, Realizing, Public Service

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• The very nature and purposes of Government make it impossible for administrative officials to represent fully or to bind the employer in mutual discussions with Government employee organizations.

  Franklin D. Roosevelt

  Government, Organization, Purpose

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• Open offices keep everyone in tune with what is going on and keep the energy up. If an employee is about privacy, show him or her how to use the lock on the bathroom.

  Mark Cuban

  Inspiring, Success, Power

  "Mark Cuban shares his 12 fundamental rules for entrepreneurs" by Richard Feloni, www.businessinsider.com. April 2, 2015.

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• In my opinion humanity is being prayed upon, I mean as a species. Not only by old satanic families like the Rothschilds and Rockefellers, Collins, Dupont, Warner, Russell, the world's monarchies, the Vatican. But also prayed upon by these family's employees, by governments, by the military, by banking institutions, by academia. So who does that leave? That's all the people who aren't wealthy, aren't connected, aren't educated, who are easy to manipulate, are easy to persecute and who don't believe any of the issues which you cover on Red Ice. And that's a problem. And that breaks my heart.

  Sean Young

  Military, Believe, Heart

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• I would just say that if Governor Romney would like to give back all the money he’s earned from bankrupting companies and laying off employees over his years at Bain that I would be glad to then listen to him. I’ll bet you $10, not $10,000, that he won’t take the offer.

  Newt Gingrich

  Years, Giving, Would Be

  "How you know Newt had a bad week". www.salon.com. December 16, 2011.

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• Kanye is always here in my factory. In the last three years, he has come here maybe every month and worked with the employees 10 to 12 hours a day. [Kanye] loves learning about shoes, both the design and construction, and we’ve tried to design something together. In a couple of months, he could have his own special collection out.

  Giuseppe Zanotti

  Couple, Years, Shoes

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• DaimlerChrysler made significant progress in the year 2005, but our earnings are still not where we want them to be. We intend to grow profitably and to create added value over the long term - for the benefit of our customers, employees and shareholders.

  Dieter Zetsche

  Years, Long, Progress

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• Throughout all the years and in everything we do, we have focused most of all on the development of human capacity, beginning with our own professional staff, and leveraging their expertise to enrich the Arab community. We have embraced the concept of the 'knowledge worker' and have sought to empower our people and the Arab world's people to dream, to imagine, and to create.

  Talal Abu-Ghazaleh

  Dream, Knowledge, Power

  National Seminar on Industrial Property and Technology Transfer in Arab States, Amman, Jordan, June 18, 2007.

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• Jesse has a new dog. You may have noticed that his former pets have been peculiarly unfortunate. When this dog dies every employee in the White House will be at once discharged.

  Ulysses S. Grant

  Dog, White, House

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